Inger Whist
BA (Hons), AOCAD, MFA Born in Ottawa, Inger Whist has traveled to over 50 countries and has been photographing landscapes panoramically for almost 20 years. Beginning with an early interest in scuba diving and marine biology she once worked as an underwater photographer for the mariculture of the Queen conch shell, Strombus Gigas. An ongoing interest in other cultures and alternative perceptual practices has led to specialist degrees in anthropology and Fine Arts at both the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art and Design, and an MFA degree in Documentary Media in its inaugural year from Ryerson University. Inger's work is in public and private collections across Canada and in private collections abroad.
"Whist’s photographs and videos focus on the meditative aspects of water and its hypnotic continuities as a running, streaming, flowing, waving, and patterning element. Using rhythmic fractals akin to mandalas, the artist creates intricate patterns as a means of isolating and sacralizing our most essential resource." (Katy McCormick, MFA)
2012
- 'Niagara Trees III' & 'Niagara Trees V'; two 6' vertically panoramic photographs. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto.
- Upcoming; Evening Pond series, the Elaine Fleck Gallery.
2011
- 'La Croisette/Boulevard des Anglaises' & 'Venetian'; two 5' horizontal panoramic photographs. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto.
2010
- 'Sardinian' & 'Il Littori'; two 7' panoramas dry-mounted on metal. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto.
- 'Contact'. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto.
- 'Nuit Blanche'. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto.
- 'Christmas Show'. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto
2009
-'Sacredization of Water'. A solo multi-media show consisting of five 5' kaleidoscopic 60 image video-still photographic panoramas, a 108 minute 'Kaleidoscopic' video and several copies of the 'Book of Calm', 108 pages. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto.
- 'Bowl Tolling'; a 12 minute video shown at the National Film Board, Toronto
- 'Immersions: Ecologies of Water and Earth'. A multi-media show consisting of 'Lama', a 12 foot image shown as a tryptych, 3 dual 3' images and a 6 minute video 'Bowl Tolling'. Ryerson Gallery, Toronto.
- 'Nuit Blanche'. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto.
2008
- 'Water Issues'. A multi-media show consisting of 9 pieces including 'Lama' a 12' image shown in tryptych, 4 dual images, the 'Book of Calm' and 'Shipping', a 22 minute video of ships on the South China Seas. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto.
2007
- 'Imagination'; 9 images of the South-Eastern area of the Pyrenees near Carcassonne. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto
- Award, scholarship to the MFA program, Ryerson University.
Awards, Publications, Auctions and Other Galleries.
- First prize colour at Toronto Image Works, photo-collages in multi award-winning film 'In the Refrigerator' by Leslie-Ann Coles screened at The U.N., NYC. Cover of 'The Nameless Place written by Ian Brown. Images in; the 'Montreal Mirror', 'Alphabet City', 'Acta Victoriana'. Mbuti Pygmy photos seen at the U.N.A, Toronto. Auctioned photographs for the Pouch Cove artists' retreat, COC, and SPWC magazine. Gallery shows include the DeLeon White Gallery, WARC through FeFF, the Angell Gallery, Simcoe Gallery, Nora E Vaughan Gallery, Akau Gallery, On Sight Gallery, T.I.W. and Ottawa Art Gallery.
