Video Art and Butterfly Gardens: The Mike MacDonald Fonds
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2024
Valérie Gauthier writes about Mike MacDonald's work as a self-taught artist, videographer, and gardener. Gauthier highlights MacDonald's seminal video works Electric Totem and Seven Sisters, and celebrates the numerous butterfly gardens MacDonald cultivated on museum and gallery grounds across Canada.
ITEM 2024.017 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Technique of the Television Cameraman – Peter Jones
Electronic Totem – Mike MacDonald
Seven Sisters – Mike MacDonald