Joan Birchwood Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1934 - d. 2004

Joan Birchwood was born in 1934 in Montreal, Quebec. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a major in design, and worked as an advertising copywriter. Throughout her career, Birchwood created numerous radio and television commercials and also wrote radio plays and TV specials.Birchwood's interests always laid in the artistic world. In 1988, she developed a concept of photomontage which she called "transformations", where she would use repeats of her images, combining them to create a visual experience that was completely different from the original single photograph. She had her first solo exhibition in 1989 at the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Jane Corkin Gallery, in Toronto. Birchwood's work continuously evolved throughout her career. In 1995, Birchwood did a series of photographs, entitled Oh Canada, symbolizing the ten provinces and reflecting the prevailing moods of the country: conviction, conflict, co-existence, division, indecision, independence, power, love, anticipation, separation, solidarity, uncertainty. The series was first exhibited at the Lonsdale Gallery in Toronto. Birchwood continued to exhibit throughout Canada and the United States, until her death in Toronto in 2004.