Heather Benning
Sept 2 – October 31, 2025
Saskatchewan artist Heather Benning’s exhibition Field-doll-house is mediation on place in an age of increasing mobility. It features a 16 ft long sculpture of a doll modelled after Heather’s own childhood doll that accompanied the artist on many of her own journeys. The sculpture is displayed along with a series of photographs that document the field doll’s journey over the last decade of being shown in multiple cities across the continent.
Along with the field doll we will be showing dollhouse, a video document of a work the artist completed in the small Saskatchewan town of Redvers. For this project she completely restored the interior of a small farm house abandoned since the 1960’s. After re-plastering all the walls and shingling the roof she completely removed the north wall and replaced it with plexiglass so viewers could look into the house the way they would a child’s dollhouse.
Together Field-Doll-House speaks to our profound desire for re-connection with place.
