Tristram Lansdowne
Tristram Lansdowne’s practice explores the historical and cultural representations of organized space, considering the ways in which architecture is used to express desire and control. His recent work examines the psycho-spatial content of the contemporary modernist home, paying particular attention to the effects of globalized design culture and digital rendering technologies. Detailed watercolours, drawings, sculptures and printmaking explore the construction of the home as an image, tugging at the artifice of surface by re-coding digital processes through the handmade. Reversals of two- and three-dimensional forms coupled with shifts in perspective destabilize the viewer’s position, reinscribing the aesthetics of domestic space and asking for whom, if anyone, this ideal home is intended.
Born in Victoria (BC), Tristram Lansdowne lives and works in Toronto (ON). He holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2016) and a BFA from the Ontario College of Art & Design (2007). His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries across North America and in the UK, including at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Bonington Gallery - Nottingham Trent University, and the Mendel Art Gallery. His work is in numerous public and corporate collections in Canada and the US, including the National Gallery of Canada, the TD Bank Collection, the Royal Bank of Canada Collection, the Bank of Montreal Collection, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center.
Recent exhibitions
Vitrine - Group exhibition
From July 13 to September 6, 2024
Chapitre III - Group exhibition
From April 4 to May 25, 2024
Art Toronto
From October 27-29, 2023
Sympathies
From May 12 to June 11, 2022
I swear you never slep at night
From October 29 to November 23, 2019
Eyewitness
From May 26 to July 3, 2021
Modal Home
From September 8 to October 7, 2017
