“Portable Lighthouse" and "Fiddle Reef Remembered”

since2006

“Fiddle Reef Remembered,” created during a residency with W.F. Garrett-Petts at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria explored a common interest in the small islands of Oak Bay (Victoria). Whereas Garrett-Petts’ recollection is of trips with his boyhood friends to Jimmy Chicken Island my recollection is of the Fiddle Reef light-station which I recall from around 1976, shortly before it was torn down. “Fiddle Remembered” and "Portable Lighthouse" imagine a portable, kayak-towable lighthouse and its potential return to Fiddle Reef. Please click on an image below to view a larger version.

Funding for this project was provided through a Research/Creation grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the British Columbia Arts Council.

Donald Lawrence, Around Fiddle Reef, video, 2007.