Writer- in-Residence, Wallace Stegner House, August 2024
During August 2024 I will be writer-in-residence at the Wallace Stegner House in Eastend, Saskatchewan, researching the locations and background for a semi-fictionalised account of the six years my grandfather spent in Western Canada during the early 1920’s, which began in Eastend.
Wallace Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. His autobiographical book “Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier” (1962), describes in detail the period Stegner spent in Eastend. The house he lived in from age 7 to 12 was restored by the Eastend Arts Council in 1990 and established as a Residence for Artists.
Wallace Stegner House, Eastend, Saskatchewan
The Milano Green Forum has recently curated an on line exhibition of artists working with solar energy which includes information on my installation SunBeam (2011) as well as Digital Moving Image Installations and Renewable Energy: 1994-2018, the chapter I contributed to “Technology, Design and the Arts–Challenges and Opportunities”, originally published by Springer Books, 2020.
