Barbara Cole | Featured at SPAO
Barbara Cole featured in Slumber Party
Currently on view at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa is Slumber Party, a group exhibition which leans "into whimsy, fantasy, and camp" and "revels in the subversive power of girlhood aesthetics, often dismissed as trivial or unserious."
Featured in this collection is Cole's lenticular work "Miroir D'Eau, from Meditations," which utilizes a unqiue process to create an image that moves as it is viewed from different angles. Comprised of several separate photographs from the artist's series "Meditations", this piece seeks to convery the experience of "fleeting impressions of life reflected in water."
The exhibition is a collaboration between the SPAO and Giant Tiger, in celebration of International Women's Day, and will be on display until March 8th, 2026.
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Barbara Cole is an award-winning Canadian photographer known for her timeless aesthetic. Cole is extensively collected by both public and private institutions.
Throughout her career, Cole has worked internationally on commercial projects and has created several large-scale commissions, including installations for the atrium at the M. Lau Breast Cancer Centre in Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital, and for Trump Hollywood in Hollywood Beach, Florida. Her series Underworld was exhibited at the Canadian Embassies in Tokyo and Washington, D.C.
Cole has won prestigious awards such as the Grand Prize at the Festival International de la Photographie de Mode in Cannes, and third prize at the International Photography Awards in New York.
You can learn more about the artist's practice by listening to her recent interview on Artalogue, hosted by Madison Beale, by clicking here.