Where the Smokestacks Live
Linda Mennie's exhibition WHERE THE SMOKESTACKS LIVE raises questions about our environment and the role that industry plays in our lives, death, sexuality and creativity. This mixed media work is created from man-made debris, organic materials, and photographs of smokestacks; transforming these elements at the artist attempts to reconcile paradoxes and contradictions of our existence.
Linda Mennie has studied art in formal settings but feels her real education has come from the years since she left the institutions and which she has spent , besides her activities in Nelson, traveling, living, working, studying and engaging in Various art projects through out North America and Europe.