Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Canadian, b. 1963
Best known for the jewelry and figurative sculptures based on a range of pharmaceutical drugs that garnered her widespread notoriety in the late 1990s, prolific artist Colleen Wolstenholme has also created abstract drawings and other works over the years that continue to stimulate dialogue and attract attention.
Born in 1963 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Wolstenholme became interested in visual arts while studying fashion design at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. After earning her bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1986, she continued her studies and received her master’s degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1992, where she specialized in metal and jewelry arts.
Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, Wolstenholme worked with a range of mediums such as jewelry, sculpture, digital collage, painting and embroidery to create art that served as social criticism. Beginning in the mid-1990s, she made oversized plaster-cast sculptures and silver or gold jewelry that took the form of antidepressant pills and capsules in order to address several issues, including the fact that drugs are prescribed at disproportionate rates to women versus men, that the healthcare industry is overly reliant on prescribing drugs, and that anyone in treatment and on a course of medication is generally made to feel less healthy than those who aren’t. Wolstenholme’s provocative work made headlines in the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times and Psychology Today.
Wolstenholme’s art has also seen her unpacking her interest in the human brain. This is demonstrated in such abstract sculptures as Deviant Grid, the “Matrix Index” series and Spatial Anomaly in which she depicts the brain’s neurons. In her “Hyperobjects” series, Wolstenholme also focuses on systems that “humans have little power over but control and constrain us.” These include figurative drawings and abstract drawings of wind patterns, titled with geographical coordinates.
Wolstenholme’s art is part of the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
On 1stDibs, find a range of Colleen Wolstenholme sculptures, drawings and watercolor paintings.
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Artist: Colleen Wolstenholme
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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79.54ºS, 89.01ºE; 140º@23 km/h; 46.0ºC 08/11/15 14:00 Local
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Hyperobjects, Nova Scotia-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents works that developed from her earlier drawings of brain cell patterns and her interest in the way consciousnes...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Wind Algorithm 4
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Colleen Wolstenholme’s interest in the brain has flowed from her longstanding practice of making meticulous impressions of pharmaceutical drugs, such as Xanax, Prozac and Adderal, cr...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Archival Paper
Pixagraph 1
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Colleen Wolstenholme’s interest in the brain has flowed from her longstanding practice of making meticulous impressions of pharmaceutical drugs, such as Xanax, Prozac and Adderal, cr...
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2010s Abstract Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Archival Paper
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Wind Algorithm 1
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Colleen Wolstenholme’s interest in the brain has flowed from her longstanding practice of making meticulous impressions of pharmaceutical drugs, such as Xanax, Prozac and Adderal, cr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Wind Algorithm 3
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Colleen Wolstenholme’s interest in the brain has flowed from her longstanding practice of making meticulous impressions of pharmaceutical drugs, such as Xanax, Prozac and Adderal, cr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Paper, Ink
Wind Algorithm 2
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Colleen Wolstenholme’s interest in the brain has flowed from her longstanding practice of making meticulous impressions of pharmaceutical drugs, such as Xanax, Prozac and Adderal, cr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Paper
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
72.89ºS, 8.15ºW; 75º @ 21 km/h; 35.0ºC 22/09/15 18:00 Local
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
By Sophie Lynch
In Hyperobjects, Nova Scotia-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents works that developed from her earlier drawings of brain cell patterns and her interest in t...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Archival Paper
74.09ºS, 179.90ºW; 255º@29 km/h; 21, 1ºC 06/10/15 09:00 Local
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
By Sophie Lynch
In Hyperobjects, Nova Scotia-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents works that developed from her earlier drawings of brain cell patterns and her interest in t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Archival Paper
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Paper
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
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2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled from the series Shifty Packets
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What happens when the digital and analog duke it out? Who would win in this match: the printing press versus a high-speed internet connection? Or do we have to choose? What happens w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Colleen Wolstenholme Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
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