Award Of Excellence Winner - Laura Butler
Downtown Lindsay: A Landscape by Laura Butler
Lindsay’s urban landscape is changing, growing, and expanding, yet I have hardly noticed. Maybe because I have lived elsewhere for six years; maybe because I enter the city from the South, as Highway 35 funnels into Lindsay Street, where I feel far more has stayed the same than has changed.
‘Downtown Lindsay: A Landscape’ features the general structure of the old Taco Bell restaurant that always catches my eye when I make my way through town. I find the building charming and nostalgic in a satirical kind of way, and for me, has become a staple in Lindsay’s landscape. The title of the painting echoes the humorous sense of the work as the term ‘downtown’ is used inaccurately.
I admit that growing up on a farm outside of Lindsay and living there once again, now, has made me realize I associate ‘downtown’ with essentially any area that has a sidewalk and multiple stop lights within a stretch of a road.
About The Artist - Laura Butler
Laura Butler is an interdisciplinary artist currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design at OCAD University in Toronto. She graduated from Western University with an Undergraduate Degree in Visual Arts, Honours, and a certificate in Museum and Curatorial Studies. Her recent work studies cut flowers and the cut flower industry as she attempts to challenge and reconsider the hierarchy established between humans and plants.
