{"title":"Dyanne Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/dyanne-wilson\/dyanne-wilson-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDyanne Wilson is an Ottawa-based fine art and documentary photographer whose work is rooted in a lifelong sensitivity to place — to the way landscapes hold us, shape us, and quietly let us go.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eDyanne Wilson acknowledges that the city in which she lives is on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation and honours the people who have lived there for millennia.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up in a military family, change was not a disruption — it was simply the shape of life. Much of her childhood was spent in the remote expanse of Northern Canada around the 60th parallel, where the landscapes were vast, the communities tight-knit, and the winters harsh and breathtaking in equal measure. Those years left indelible imprints that surface quietly throughout her work: a preference for authenticity over arrangement, and an enduring quest to find tranquility and meaning in the ever-evolving places around her.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eThat sensibility — attentive, unhurried, drawn to the in-between — shapes everything she photographs. Her images occupy the threshold moments: the space between seasons, between day and night, between the wild and the inhabited. Preferring the found moment over the staged one, Wilson brings a contemplative stillness to her subjects — an invitation to slow down, to look again, and to notice what a place reveals when the world goes quiet.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eWith a career as an editorial photographer spanning more than two decades, her distinctive style has graced the pages of Hello! Canada, Diplomat and International Canada, and Ottawa Citizen Style magazines. A graduate of the School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa, her path to photography followed a lengthy tenure as a public servant with the Federal Government of Canada. From 2014 to 2018 she served as a Fujifilm X-Photographer; she now shoots with a Fujifilm GFX100RF, a compact medium format camera that allows her to carry 102 megapixels into the forest, onto frozen lakes, and wherever the light takes her.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eHer first solo exhibition, \"Life in the Knife\" — a two-year documentary project made in Yellowknife, NWT — was presented at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Ottawa in 2019. The exhibition was made possible in part through the generous support of the Articipate Endowment Fund, the City of Ottawa, and the City of Yellowknife. Fine art prints from her portfolio are held in private collections around the world, and selected works are part of the permanent collection at the MUIR Hotel Autograph Collection in Halifax.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eDriven by an adventurous spirit and a deep affection for winter, Wilson has earned a Gold Dance in figure skating, mastered downhill skiing, and holds a skydiving licence. Away from the lens, she finds solace wandering through local forests with her two Golden Doodles, Marley and Hazel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eI grew up moving. Military family, 60th parallel, never in one place long enough to take it for granted. What that gave me — though I didn’t understand it then — was a sensitivity to impermanence. To the way places hold memory, and the way we leave traces in them whether we intend to or not.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eMy photography comes from that place. I am drawn to threshold moments — between seasons, between wild and inhabited, between what was and what’s becoming. I don’t chase the perfect light. I wait for the in-between.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eMost of my best images happen when I’m not looking for them. Walking the dogs on a frozen river. Stepping outside on a cold night with a camera because I needed air. Pulling over on a highway because hoar frost has turned a burned forest into something that takes your breath away.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eI shoot with a medium format camera because I want to honour what I find.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eI photograph the traces people leave on landscapes — and the traces landscapes leave on people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-runway","title":"The Runway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhotography on paper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e30.50x24\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited edition 1 of 10.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Runway - Limited Edition of 10,\" captures a dog team racing across the frozen runway of Great Slave Lake, with the Yellowknife airport in the background. 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