Frances Leeming
October 14 - November 1, 2005


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The gallery presents three videos by Frances Leeming, artist and faculty member in the Film Studies Department at Queen's University. These early performance and collage-animation works - Man Made Life (1985), Orientation Express (1987) and The Untilled Story (1990) - reveal the development of the artist's investigation of the sexual politics of advancing technologies. Concurrently the Agnes Etherington Art Centre will present Leeming's most recent film, Genetic Admiration until October 22, 2005. This project is organized by Jan Allen and Susan Lord in collaboration with Public Access.

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, Orientation Express (1987) has been screened extensively including the 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), and ASIFA Animation Festival, San Francisco, (1989). Leeming currently completed her third collage animation, Genetic Admiration (2005) which took the grand prize at Images Festival in Toronto. Leeming’s performance history appears in Caught in the Act - An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women (YYZ Books, 2004). She 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.