“Each night, movie attendees gather on the shoreline to watch the beach films, projected on an eleven-meter screen erected directly in the lake. Viewers dig themselves makeshift seats in the sand. Feasting mosquitos gather. Waves lap. Frogs chirp. Credits roll.”
Meganelizabeth Diamond
Meganelizabeth Diamond is an interdisciplinary visual artist who works with photography, collage, and moving image currently based in Camp Morton on Treaty 1.
Diamond was a New Media Artist in Residence at Video Pool Media Arts Centre (2019-2020). Her work has shown at artist-run centres and festivals internationally such as Flux Gallery (2019), The Forks/Parks Canada (2017), Forthwith (2018), IBID Curitioral (2019), PAVED Arts (2019), Wallspace-LNK (2022), Antimatter [media art] (2021), Light Field (2019) and RPM Festival (2022). As a practicing artist driven by process, Diamond facilitates workshops exploring a wide variety of photo-developing techniques. Beyond her personal studio practice, she is currently the Artistic Director at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts and the Director of the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival.
Diamond’s practice utilizes both the analog and the digital in alternative modes of image building. Currently, her studio practice involves pushing and pulling photographs through multiple processes creating a feedback loop. This results in work that embraces the digital line and other slippages. Her images explore our emotional connection to the natural world by using photographic materials to depict flora and fauna abstractly, and in some pieces, nature is depicted physically. In her constructions she is juxtaposing the real with the artificial – playing with the boundary of fact and fiction whilst expanding the surface of the image. [www.meganelizabethdiamond.com]
Meganelizabeth Diamond moves us through her process for constructing images across a series of recent work.