Critical Writing Index

Jan Peacock

by Mern O'Brien and Susan Gibson Garvey

Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1998

ISBN 0-7703-0671-3

Susan Gibson Garvey provides an overview of Jan Peacock's video installations featured at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, including Reader by the Window and Book of Chairs, "which differ in form and presentation, yet both are concerned with physical and emotional distance, and with our relationships to each other and to remembered places. Images and sounds of travel – of arrivals and departures, of places both familiar and exotic – are the raw materials from which Peacock builds her complex layered environments, and in which she invites viewers to immerse themselves." (Quote taken from the Dalhousie Art Gallery website.)

ITEM 1998.022 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Reader by the windowJan Peacock

Book of ChairsJan Peacock