Donation of Underground Fetish Scene 2009 by Michelle Wilson, City of Ottawa Art Collection, 2021
Thrilled to announce this selection of photographs by Michelle Wilson, from my private collection, has been accepted as a donation (in full) by the City of Ottawa Art Collection. November 2021.
This series of portraits was commissioned by La Petite Mort Gallery in 2009, to photograph the participants &/or audience members of The Mister Leather Competition in Ottawa, by setting up a make-shift studio in the basement of the All Saints Church. Guests were also asked to pose & participate. These are the wonderful results. Prints are 11.5 inches width x 15 inches height, signed and dated 2009 in ink on verso.
This collection is now being proposed as a donation.
MICHELLE WILSON:
Originally a photo-based artist Michelle Wilson has expanded her practice to incorporate sculpture, textile and text based works. Wilson received her BFA from the University of Ottawa in 2005, and graduated with highest honours from the School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa in 2008. She represented Canada at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2008, and more recently presented at the 14th annual Institute for Critical Animal Studies Conference. She will be graduating from the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Manitoba fall of 2015.