Judith Cowan is currently involved in residential landscape design and a schoolground naturalization project with a public art component for an elementary school in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has participated in the development and installation of a community garden in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, and aspires to help establish a community garden network throughout Vancouver. She studied at the University of British Columbia, receiving a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree in 1995.
Scope and content
The collection, by Judith Cowan, 1997, consists of a model miniature garden, constructed within a Plexiglas container, with copper wire, hydrocal, and acrylic, 12.5 x 10 x 24 cm, an artist book, covered with a binding of astroturf and drawing on vellum, 10 x 15 cm, thirty-four pages, containing images and colour photoprints of objects and of Cowan's work, which she uses as inspiration for her work.
Note
The artist stated that she "draws on her experience as a landscape designer to investigate perceptions and attitudes about nature within the city. Collecting found objects and plants from specific sites throughout the city, her artwork tries to capture the essence of the place and the vitality of nature in many different forms and contexts, whether it is the pristinely manicured flower beds in Queen Elizabeth Park or the rambunctious grown of weeks in a city works yard. The submission 'Landscape in a Box' for "Browser" 1997 is a miniature imaginary landscape in a Plexiglas display container and a companion booklet with images, text and materials that are a constant source of inspiration."
