The Artistic Jury for FLASH 2022 deliberated on what Photographic Artists were chosen as Featured Exhibitions.
Sam Baardman
A major emphasis of Sam's photography has been the River on the Run Project, an artist collective made up of Sam, Rhian Brynjolson (art educator and visual artist), Bob Haverluck (artist/animateur) and Deborah Schnitzer (writer and educator). Informed by the relationship between art and science, the group has been focusing on Lake Winnipeg and the Red River, creating multi-media work based on their shared experience of living within this unique watershed. Integrating a variety of art forms and disciplines, they have investigated the bonds between human and nature, and the historical, mythical, political and economic relationship we have with water.
Hugh Conacher
Hugh Conacher is a Winnipeg based lighting and multi-media designer, and a photographer, whose practice is based in live performance. He has collaborated with musicians, choreographers, directors, visual artists, and dance and theatre companies throughout Canada and around the world.
Leona Herzog
Leona Herzog, BFA, MA, has a long history of supporting the local arts community. She worked with Manitoba Hydro to establish its significant collection of contemporary art and since 2016 has been the Director/Curator of the Buhler Gallery, St. Boniface Hospital, showing the work of the province’s preeminent visual artists. Leona volunteers on several arts boards including Manitoba Crafts Museum & Library (MCML), Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA, and Manitoba Opera.
Diana Thorneycroft
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2016 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction.
Known for making art that frequently employs black humour and hovers on the edge of public acceptance, Thorneycroft has pursued subject matter that often challenges her viewing audience. Stemming from the recently touring installation Black Forest (dark waters), her first stop-motion animation short film Black Forest Sanatorium had it’s world premiere at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival. It has since shown in thirteen other venues that includes galleries as well as other festivals.
Jim Wagner
Jim Wagner has been a practising architect for over 30 years. Currently a sole practitioner specializing in historic buildings, Jim worked for many years in the private sector prior to joining Parks Canada. Educated at the University of Waterloo, Jim is a member of the Manitoba Association of Architects and a Fellow of the RAIC.