Project by Minna Kantonen, Dafna Talmor and Emma Wieslander exploring representations of landscape

 

When talking about landscape a set of preconceived ideas, traditions and conventions come into play. How does one position oneself in relation to loaded notions of landscape traditions? Is it possible to subvert and challenge traditional representations and tropes of landscape? Is it truly possible to visualize or record the experience of a landscape onto a flat surface? Is the inclusion of nature in urban environments an attempt to recreate a utopian idea of rural landscape? 

On Landscape Project is interested in raising these questions and seeks to instigate discussions and debate on representations of landscape.  

The first exhibition by On Landscape Project took place throughout March 2014 at Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects, London, generously funded by the Arts Council of England. The show included work by Minna Kantonen, Emma Wieslander, Dafna Talmor, invited artist Minna Pöllänen and selected book artists. 

The second exhibition by On Landscape Project took place at Matèria Gallery, Rome, 17 April - 16 May 2015. The show included work by Minna Kantonen, Emma Wieslander, Dafna Talmor, invited artist Marco Strappato and selected book artists.

 

Artist Biographies
 

Minna Kantonen is a Finnish artist based in UK. Her work has been featured in publications including FT Weekend Magazine (UK), Source (IE), Photomonitor (UK), Architects Journal (UK), Photo District News (USA), I’Espresso (IT), and Photographie (DE). Kantonen is the recipient of Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award (2014), Arts Council of South West Finland Grant (2005) for production and publication of A Small Book of Trees (published in 2007) and the Research Residency Award, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness (2005). Exhibitions include 209 Women, Portcullis House, the Houses of Parliament (2018) and the Open Eye Gallery (2019), On Landscape #3 at Lower Hewood Farm, Dorset (2016), On Landscape #2 at Castelnuovo Fotographia, Italy (2015), Urban Vistas: Illusions of Nature, the Foundry Gallery, Chelsea, London (2014), On Landscape # 1, Guest Projects, London (2014), Photobook Show at Brighton Photo Biennial (2012) and at the offices of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, selected by the Government Art Collection, (2003). Kantonen’s interest centres around examination of urban societies from office workers to the city tree as an urban protagonist.

Kantonen is an Associate Head of School of Art and Design, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Coventry University.

www.minnakantonen.co.uk

 

Dafna Talmor is an artist & lecturer based in London with work in private and public collections such as Victoria & Albert Museum, Deutsche Bank and Hiscox. Talmor's work is featured in publications such as Look at This If You Love Great Photography, Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, Architectural Review, FT Weekend Magazine, 1000 Words, Elephant Magazine, Camera Austria, ArtReview, IMA and Photomonitor. Her first monograph published by Fw:Books was released in October 2020 and longlisted for the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award. Talmor was a finalist of the BNL BNP Paribas Group Award 2019, shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award and Unseen Dummy Award 2018 and the recipient of Breathing SPACE Bursary 2016, several Arts Council England grants and Photofusion Select Bursary Award 2013. Talmor is represented by Sid Motion Gallery in London and TOBE Gallery in Budapest.

www.dafnatalmor.co.uk

 

Emma Wieslander is a Swedish artist based in the UK and Sweden. Exhibitions include Mijn Vlakke Land, FoMu Antwerp (2015), On Landscape # 1, Guest Projects, London (2014), Distracted and Bewildered, Galleri Pictura, Sweden (2013), Kaunas Photo Festival, Lithuania (2012), GSK Contemporary; Art of a Changing World at the Royal Academy of Art, London (2010), Women in Art Photography, Taschen Gallery, London (2010), and deep-north – transmediale 09, Berlin (2009). Her work is included in the collection of Yinka Shonibare and has been published in BON Magazine, Photomonitor, deep north-transmediale 09 and The Collectors Guide to Emerging Art Photography. Recent awards include the Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award, SWEA London Culture Grant (2014) and Culturefund for Sweden and Finland (2015/13).

www.emmawieslander.com