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For immediate release
November 15, 2005

Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre opens
Where I Lay My Heart

November 25, 2005 to December 4, 2005
Opening reception: 3 p.m., Friday, November 25
The Other Gallery, Glyde Hall, The Banff Centre – Free

Architecture influences and shapes our perception of the world around us. Where I Lay My Heart, a new exhibition organized by the Walter Phillips Gallery and opening at The Banff Centre’s Other Gallery in Glyde Hall, encourages a dialogue on the influence of architecture by displaying and highlighting ideas linked to transience and mobility, through the use of non-static architectural forms. The exhibition will feature a prototype by Stephanie White entitled Emergency Shelter that was built at The Banff Centre.

Where I Lay My Heart began as a call for submissions for a public art project in informal architecture and mobile dwellings. Three projects were selected by a jury, based on creativity, originality, mobility, craftsmanship, cost efficiency, and overall aesthetic design. Following the jury selection, Luanne Martineau, a British Columbia-based visual artist who specializes in non-conventional ways of interpreting architecture, led a workshop to further develop the chosen projects.

Proposals selected to be workshopped included John Frosst and the Arbour Lake School’s Hide Away Suspension Tent, Jen Hutton’s untitled, and Stephanie White’s Emergency Shelter.

John Frosst and the Arbour Lake School represent an artist collective from Calgary that comes together for different projects. Frosst and the Arbour Lake School’s proposal Hide Away Suspension Tent suggests urban survival and institutional subversion, packaged neatly in a suitcase. Jen Hutton is a practicing artist who currently resides in Banff. Her untitled proposal is quirky and fun, combining utility within the framework of the bizarre, building upon past parasitic ideas in architecture and adding a playful spin. Stephanie White lives in Calgary and teaches architectural theory at the University of Calgary. White’s proposal, Emergency Shelter is simple and striking, a banal object transformed by a visual disguise.

The exhibition documents the different aspects of the project Where I Lay my Heart. It includes project documentation, the proposals, and Stephanie White’s Emergency Shelter prototype. The opening reception will be held at 3:00 p.m., Friday, November 25 at the Other Gallery, in Glyde Hall at The Banff Centre.

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