Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop remains one of the most significant painters of the last two decades in Canada. Recently she has explored ideas of memory and landscape, and the accumulated images and motifs which form a coherent representation of place. The places depicted in the paintings are not real, however, but are conjured out the mists of memory and desire. By imposing cross-hairs, brackets, circles, dots and lines over the representations of place, Koop evokes electronic technologies which define the way we now read the world around us, even the ‘natural’ world.
Wanda Koop lives and works in Winnipeg. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Japan and the United States and is included in numerous collections, including the National Gallery of Canada. She is also involved in a number of community initiatives for the arts.