Frances Leeming
Media artist Frances Leeming's performance and film projects explore the relationship between gender, technology and consumerism. Her work has been presented and exhibited across Canada, the U.S., Britain and Poland. Her collage animation, The Orientation Express (1987) has been screened extensively including Festival of Festivals, Toronto (1992), Festival de Cine y Video Joven Cubano, National Gallery of Cuba, Havana (1990), Seattle Women's Film Festival, Seattle, (1990), Women in the Director's Chair, Women's Film and Video Festival, Chicago (1989), ASIFA Animation Festival, San Francisco, (1989) .Selected purchases include the National Gallery of Canada, the Women's Television Network, Cornell University, California Institute For The Arts, PBS, Channel Four, and SBS (Australia). Leeming currently completed her third collage animation, Genetic Admiration (2005) which took the grand prize at Images Festival in Toronto. Her experimental film work has been featured in Public 25: Experimentalism (2002) and performance history in Caught in the Act , an anthology of performance art by Canadian Women (2004)
Leeming has guest lectured throughout Canada and taught in the Communication Studies Department at Concordia University, Montreal. She now teaches in the Department of Film Studies, Queen's University, Kingston. Currently, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston is organizing a survey exhibition and symposium Animate/Recombinant: the Media Works of Frances Leeming for October 2005.
Artist Code: 368
Videography
2005, 23:00 minutes, colour, English
1987, 14:00 minutes
Critical Writing
by . The Globe and Mail, May 21, 1987.