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Diana Thorneycroft Art

Canadian, b. 1956

Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg-based contemporary artist, born in 1956, in Claresholm, Alberta, Canada. She has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction, assistance to visual arts long-term grant from the Canada Council, several senior arts grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and a fleck fellowship from the Banff Center for the Arts. Her early work was the subject of national radio documentaries and a CBC national documentary for television. From 2000-02, Diana's photo-based exhibition, “The Body, its Lesson and Camouflage” toured to eight venues. Several images from this show were included in the 2002 Phaidon Press publication, Blink, which presents the work of 100 rising stars in photography. Diana is best known for her photographic work depicting facets of Canadian identity. Some of the work is humorous, sometimes dark, frequently both. From 2007-14, she completed four photography series, “The Canadiana Martyrdom Series," “Group of Seven Awkward Moments," “A People's History” and “Canadians and Americans (best friends forever... it's complicated).” Canadian Art Magazine selected the “Group of Seven Awkward Moments” as one of The Top 10 Exhibitions of 2008. Equally as dark, is her drawing series, “There Must Be 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover,” which is divided into three categories, Foul Play, Desperate Housewives and Failed Relationships. In 2013, Diana began working on a complex installation, entitled “Black Forest (dark waters).” The exhibition, which had its inaugural opening in 2018, is composed of three interconnected bodies of work and two sculptural installations that are presented as physical evidence of the cryptic narrative that unfolds in the suite of 19 photographs.

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Artist: Diana Thorneycroft
Deity (on fire)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Tongue Maker (and his habitués)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Storm (mother and daughter)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Woodsman (wood gatherer and amputator)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Red-berry Girl (with Grace)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

The Vet (and the darkest one)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Rain and Birches (in Fiddler's Green)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Horse-head Girl (pathologist and pony entertainer)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Ring-boy's Water Dream
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Birdmen (ranch hands and members of the selection committee)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Spot-face Boy (chef and snake charmer)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Guard on the Edge (of the forest and the night)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (Fatal Accident near Ski Tracks)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven. Strangely though, in art, that is exactly where Canadian begins, with a Group of Seven. In Diana Thorneycroft’s new series Group of Seven Awkward Moments, the momentous humor Canada is famous for is contrasted with the nation’s dirty little secret: that it is not funny at all, and in fact, much too serious, bordering on menacing. The new series of works falls into a line of art objects created by Canadian artists within the last few years that utilize parody and play to explode the hallowed imagery of nationalized corporatism. In the case of Thorneycroft, the use of backdrops that are reproduced works of the Group of Seven and Tom Thompson...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (Northern Lights)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

A People’s History (Fire-swept Algoma)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Post-colonialism has taught us that history is multifaceted, and can never be a straightforward narrative from a single point-of-view. When considering stories of the past, we collectively need to ask: Whose history is being remembered; whose recollections are recorded and on what terms? Who will talk about what the disenfranchised will have to endure if they are voiceless? Thorneycroft voices the stories of the marginalized in her series A People’s History, a group of images that clearly evolved from her works Group of Seven Awkward Moments and the Canadiana Martyrdom Series, with their kitschy Canadian icons and archetypical wooded landscapes as backgrounds. She crafts and captures events in Canadian history that people are disinclined to claim as their own. These scenes are enacted using tinker toys, which come across as both didactic tools and horrifying misappropriations. Thorneycroft points out that these images all involve the disadvantaged, the uneducated and the young – populations that are frequently overlooked and whose grievances go unheard. One particularly striking and complex photograph is Quintland, a depiction of the lives of the Dionne quintuplets...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Doll Mouth (rose)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Using photography and drawing, Diana Thorneycroft often explores the darker side of supposedly innocent or benign objects like dolls, toys and cartoon characters. Past series include...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Photographic Paper

Lake O'Hara (Clark, Northern Dancer and the Evil Weasel)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Photographic Paper

Portrait of Winnipeg (Run! Forrest! Run!)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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21st Century and Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Photographic Paper

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (Jack Pine)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Forest Ruin (with horse and deer)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Equestrian (nutritionist)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Herd-girl (gardener and memory keeper)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (Beavers and Woo at Tanoo)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven. Strangely though, in art, that is exactly where Canadian begins, with a Group of Seven. In Diana Thorneycroft’s new series Group of Seven Awkward Moments, the momentous humor Canada is famous for is contrasted with the nation’s dirty little secret: that it is not funny at all, and in fact, much too serious, bordering on menacing. The new series of works falls into a line of art objects created by Canadian artists within the last few years that utilize parody and play to explode the hallowed imagery of nationalized corporatism. In the case of Thorneycroft, the use of backdrops that are reproduced works of the Group of Seven and Tom Thompson...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (Davis Strait)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven. Strangely though, in art, that is exactly where Canadian begins, with a Group of Seven. In Diana Thorneycroft’s new series Group of Seven Awkward Moments, the momentous humor Canada is famous for is contrasted with the nation’s dirty little secret: that it is not funny at all, and in fact, much too serious, bordering on menacing. The new series of works falls into a line of art objects created by Canadian artists within the last few years that utilize parody and play to explode the hallowed imagery of nationalized corporatism. In the case of Thorneycroft, the use of backdrops that are reproduced works of the Group of Seven and Tom Thompson...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (Lake and Mountains with Double-double)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven. Strangely though, in art, that is exactly where Canadian begins, with a Group of Seven. In Diana Thorneycroft’s new series Group of Seven Awkward Moments, the momentous humor Canada is famous for is contrasted with the nation’s dirty little secret: that it is not funny at all, and in fact, much too serious, bordering on menacing. The new series of works falls into a line of art objects created by Canadian artists within the last few years that utilize parody and play to explode the hallowed imagery of nationalized corporatism. In the case of Thorneycroft, the use of backdrops that are reproduced works of the Group of Seven and Tom Thompson, combined with stereotypical iconic representations, produce strange entanglements of visual narratives that are at once laughable, and in the same engage preconceptions regarding what it is that defines a nation. The idealization of an empty and prosperous landscape, claimed authentically Canadian while in the same owing much to Scandinavian landscape painters, is rendered as a manufactured fabrication. The series is littered with black humor, addressing issues of colonization, sexual identity, corporatism, environmental destruction and celebrity. The image of Bobby Orr...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (Byng Inlet)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (The West Wind)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven. Strangely though, in art, that is exactly where Canadian begins, with a Group of Seven. In Diana Thorneycroft’s new series Group of Seven Awkward Moments, the momentous humor Canada is famous for is contrasted with the nation’s dirty little secret: that it is not funny at all, and in fact, much too serious, bordering on menacing. The new series of works falls into a line of art objects created by Canadian artists within the last few years that utilize parody and play to explode the hallowed imagery of nationalized corporatism. In the case of Thorneycroft, the use of backdrops that are reproduced works of the Group of Seven and Tom Thompson...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (In Algonquin Park)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven. Strangely though, in art, that is exactly where Canadian begins, with a Group of Seven. In Diana Thorneycroft’s new series Group of Seven Awkward Moments, the momentous humor Canada is famous for is contrasted with the nation’s dirty little secret: that it is not funny at all, and in fact, much too serious, bordering on menacing. The new series of works falls into a line of art objects created by Canadian artists within the last few years that utilize parody and play to explode the hallowed imagery of nationalized corporatism. In the case of Thorneycroft, the use of backdrops that are reproduced works of the Group of Seven and Tom Thompson...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Group of Seven Awkward Moments (Winter on the Don)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Canadians have a funny kind of national identity, meaning specifically we do not really have one. To say that there is a national identity is to enter into a discussion without end -because there are just too many different kinds of people in Canada- it would be impossible to pin identity to anything, let alone a top-down Multicultural Act, or a Group of Seven. Strangely though, in art, that is exactly where Canadian begins, with a Group of Seven. In Diana Thorneycroft’s new series Group of Seven Awkward Moments, the momentous humor Canada is famous for is contrasted with the nation’s dirty little secret: that it is not funny at all, and in fact, much too serious, bordering on menacing. The new series of works falls into a line of art objects created by Canadian artists within the last few years that utilize parody and play to explode the hallowed imagery of nationalized corporatism. In the case of Thorneycroft, the use of backdrops that are reproduced works of the Group of Seven and Tom Thompson...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Nighthawks (What would Jack Bauer do?)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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21st Century and Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Photographic Paper

The Battle of Queenston Heights (War of 1812)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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21st Century and Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Photographic Paper

Christina's World (gets turned upside down by Cpl. Dew Wright)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Using photography and drawing, Diana Thorneycroft often explores the darker side of supposedly innocent or benign objects like dolls, toys and cartoon characters. Past series include...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Photographic Paper

American Bachelorette (at Riverbend Farm)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Photographic Paper

The Blind Conductor (of the Phocomelia Drum Band) & The Phocomelia Drum Band
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diptych Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is ...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Winter Dancing Horses (with accordion playing inseminator)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Shaman's Hut
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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2010s Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Digital

Dirty Harry on the Buffalo Trail (I know what you're thinking... punk)
By Diana Thorneycroft
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recip...
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21st Century and Contemporary Diana Thorneycroft Art

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Photographic Paper

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