Book of the Dead, encaustic on wood, 1999,
15" x 21"
Forty-five wooden laths, glued face-to-face, pegged and sanded smooth
into a 2"-thick undulating slab. It tricks you; it's weighty, like
Egyptian sandstone, but the surface, seen through golden clear beeswax,
evokes the papyrus of the third century BC original."
Sarah Petite.....Curriculum Vitae......October
2002
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Documentation
Artists in a Floating World; des artistes dans un monde flotant,
curator’s essay by Tom Smart, catalogue of the Marion McCain Atlantic
Art Exhibition, 2000, The Marion McCain Foundation and the Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.
Performing Waxes; the encaustic art of Sarah Petite, Oracle Images,
a DK Petersen Production, with assistance from the New Brunswick Film-makers’
Co-operative and New Brunswick Department of Municipalities, Culture and
Housing
Work Experience
2002 artist’s residency, The Casemates, Fredericton,
N.B., The Fredericton Arts Alliance
2000 artist’s residency, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
Fredericton, N.B.
1998-2002 encaustic workshops, public schools, University
of New Brunswick, New Brunswick College of Craft and Design
Professional Affiliation
CARFAC (Canadian Artist Representation): representative for New Brunswick
Gallery Connexion artist-run centre, Fredericton, N.B.: president
Fredericton Arts Alliance
Outside Interests
Amnesty International: Urgent Action, Artists’ Network
MacPhail’s Taproom, Fredericton, NB
Representation
Sue Lawrence Hair Spa & Gallery, 550 Queen Street, Fredericton, New
Brunswick E3B 1B9
Zwicker’s Gallery, 5415 Doyle Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, www.zwickersgallery.ca