Diana Shearwood is a Montreal-based photographer who combines traditional photography and digital technology. She presents her images as large format ink jets printed on Arches paper. Recent projects
include two solo exhibitions in Montréalís Le Mois de la photo 1999 and participation in a group show at Usine éphémère in France as part of Le Printemps du Québec à Paris. A solo exhibit of her work is scheduled for next year at the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.

Over the last few years she has produced three series of photographs which document the built environment. The first series entitled the ZONE
traces the transformation of a vacant industrial building into a high tech design and production space. The second records the glass and
titanium surfaces of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The third focuses on two desolate motels in the California desert. In April of
this year, Shearwood began to photograph the abandoned SILO #5 in Montreal Vieux Port. She will continue to document the building for a
period of approximately one year.

Artist's Statement
I am interested in documenting any kind of landscape which is visually arresting whether it be modest or grandiose - a desolate rural motel, a new urban museum or a decaying industrial site. I am particularly drawn to abandoned buildings because there are no people and I am free to wander about recording hidden details and forgotten corners. More importantly, the architectural sights I have been photographing are places of great beauty which deserve to be documented. The photographs are my way of paying homage to their evocative beauty.

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