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Louise Abbott


EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES / SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004  Crisscrossing Space and Time: A History of Farm Fencing, Colby-Curtis Museum, Stanstead, Canada; Piggery Theatre Gallery, North Hatley, Canada

2001  The Heart Endures: A Portrait of Rural Anglophones in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Centre culturel et du patrimoine Uplands / Uplands Cultural and Heritage Centre, Lennoxville, Canada

2000  The Heart Endures: A Portrait of Rural Anglophones in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Photo Passage, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada

1998  The Rural English-speaking Minority in the Eastern Townships, Université Bishop's / Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Canada

1996  The Pinnacle and the Poet, Galerie Arts Sutton, Canada

1995-1996  Mountain People, Côte St-Luc Library, Montréal, Canada

1995 Mountain People, The Haskell Library, Rock Island, Canada

1991  Les Franco-Terre-Neuviens / French Newfoundlanders, Musée Régional de la Côte-Nord, Sept-Îles, Canada

The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence, Centre Culturel, Blanc-Sablon, Canada

The Coast Way, Musée Régional de la Côte-Nord, Sept-Îles, Canada

1989  Les Franco-Terre-Neuviens / French Newfoundlanders, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada

The Coast Way, Galerie d'art Stewart Hall / Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, Canada

Les Franco-Terre-Neuviens / French Newfoundlanders, Galerie Restigouche, Campbellton, Canada

1988  The Coast Way, Toronto Image Works, Canada

Les Franco-Terre-Neuviens / French Newfoundlanders, Galerie d’art de l'Université de Moncton, Canada

National Exhibition Centre, Fredericton, Canada


1987-1988  *Memorial University of Newfoundland Art Gallery, St John's, Canada

1985  The Coast Way, Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

1984-1985  The Coast Way, Notman Archives Gallery, Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne / McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montréal, Canada

1982  Iona: Recollections of a Pilgrimage, Galerie Arts Lennoxville, Canada

1981  Iona: Recollections of a Pilgrimage, Centre des arts Saidye Bronfman / Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montréal, Canada

1979  Portraits, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, Canada

Recent Photographs
, Critical Eye Workshops, Hatley, Canada

1976  Recent Photographs, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, Canada

1975  Recent Photographs, The Workshop, Université Concordia (campus Loyola) / Concordia University (Loyola Campus), Montréal, Canada

*catalogue



EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES / GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000  Laundry, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1999  Latent Images, Galerie Mistral, Montreal, Canada

A Dog’s Life, Galerie Mistral, Montreal, Canada

1998  Small Pleasures, Galerie Mistral, Montreal, Canada

1997  Small Worlds, Galerie Mistral, Montreal, Canada

L’essence du lieu / The Spiritual Landscape (présenté dans le cadre du / presented within the Mois de la Photo à Montréal), Espace 424, Montreal, Canada

Le Circuit des Arts, Elephant Barn, Georgeville, Canada

Frederick Amsden House Art Gallery, Stanstead, Canada

Regards du Québec*, Québec, Canada

1996  Le Circuit des Arts, Elephant Barn, Georgeville, Canada

1995  Le Circuit des Arts, Elephant Barn, Georgeville, Canada

1994  Le Circuit des Arts, Design Workshop, Tomifobia, Canada

1993  Notes et photographies de voyage : l’Amérique regarde l'Europe, Centre Interculturel Strathearn, Montreal, Canada

1992  Faces of Canada*, Toronto, Canada

1990  Children in Photography: 150 Years* (exposition itinérante / travelling exhibition), Musée canadien des civilisations / Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada

1989  Galerie Arts Sutton, Canada

Retour, Centre d’exposition, Shawinigan, Canada

A Posteriori (organisé par le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine et présenté dans le cadre du Mois de la Photo à Montréal / organised by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and presented within the Mois de la Photo à Montréal), Librairie Paragraphe, Montreal, Canada

1988  Festival de Photo, Shawinigan, Canada

1987  Arts and Crafts Show, Murray Memorial Hall, Georgeville, Canada

1986  Transitions, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada

Arts and Crafts Show, Murray Memorial Hall, Georgeville, Canada

L'effet visuel,”Galerie Ovo, Montreal, Canada

Ten Quebec Photographers, Liège, Belgique / Belgium

Quebec Women in the 80s: A Portrait*, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada

1983  The Portrait (exposition itinérante / travelling exhibition), Galerie Ovo, Montreal, Canada

1982  Le Montréal des Montréalais, Montreal, Canada

L’Age d’or, Place des Arts, Montreal, Canada

Art et féminisme*, Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Canada

1981  Sights of History, Stills Division, Office national du film du Canada / National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Un Grand Cru, Dazibao, centre de photographies actuelles, Montreal, Canada

1980  Quec’chose leur sort des yeux, Bordeaux, France

Déja Vue Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1978  Canada at Work, Burlington Cultural Centre, Canada

1976  Sweet Immortality*, Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada

Corridart, Montreal, Canada

Contact, Port Royal, Place des Arts, Montreal, Canada



1975  Exposure*, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Photography 75, Stills Division, Office national du film du Canada / National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

1974  Femmes Photographes, Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, Canada

1972  Photography 25, Stills Division, Office national du film du Canada / National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

*catalogue







COLLECTIONS / COLLECTIONS

  Banque d'œuvres d'art du Conseil des Arts du Canada / Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine / Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Archives Nationales du Canada / National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada
Musée canadien des civilisations / Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada
Archives photographiques Notman / Notman Photographic Archives, Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne / McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Canada
La collection prêt d’œuvres d’art du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada
Galerie d'art Stewart Hall / Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe-Claire, Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada  



PRIX / AWARDS

2002  Norman Kucharsky Award for Cultural and Artistic Journalism, Periodical Writers Association of Canada

Greg Clark Internship Award, Canadian Journalism Foundation

1986  George Drew Memorial Trust Fund Award for research on the women’s self-help movement in health in India


PUBLICATIONS / PUBLICATIONS

  Catalogues et monographies / Catalogues and Monographs

Regards du Québec, Montréal, Urban Photographic Projects, Inc., 1997

Faces of Canada (Toronto: Urban Photographic Projects, Inc., 1992)

Children in Photography: 150 Years (Toronto: Firefly Books, 1990)

Les Franco-Terre-Neuviens / French Newfoundlanders (St. John’s: Memorial University of Newfoundland Art Gallery, 1987)

Quebec Women in the 80s: A Portrait (Montreal: Les Éditions du remue-ménage Inc., 1986)

Art et féminisme, Montreal, Musée d’art contemporain, 1982

Sweet Immortality (Edmonton: Edmonton Art Gallery, 1978)

Exposure (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario/Gage Publishing Ltd., 1975)


Périodiques / Periodicals

"Abbott Entertains and Educates", The Record (28 October 2004)

"Louise Abbott to Speak at Colby-Curtis", The Record (21 October 2004)

"Film Chronicles Walbridge Legacy", The Record (12 June 2002)

« La passion de Louise Abbott pour les siens », La Tribune, 21 avril 2001

"Black and White of Townships Life", The Gazette (7 April 2001)

"Rural Life in All Its Glories", The Journal (Stanstead) (4 April 2001)

"Heart Endures Reflects Attachment to Land", The Record (3 April 2001)

"Abbott Captures Rural Life in Pictures", The Journal (Stanstead) (28 March 2001)

Journal of Eastern Townships Studies (2000)


"Photographer Abbott Takes Townships to T.O.", The Gazette (9 September 2000)

Journal of Eastern Townships Studies (1999)

"The French Shore: Newfoundland’s Port-au-Port Peninsula", Arts Atlantic (Summer 1998)

"The World Seen Through Woman’s Lens: Wide Range of Styles and Subjects in Mois de la Photo Group Show", The Gazette (13 September 1997)

"French on the Rock: A Portrait in Images of Newfoundland’s French Shore", The Gazette (16 February 1997)

"Filmmaker Abbott Fascinated by Cultures Under Threat", The Journal (Stanstead) (11 September 1996)

"Female Photos", Townships Week, The Record (2 August 1996)

"Le Filet Vide: Another Catch for Tomifobia Filmmaker Abbott: Abbott Chronicles the Collapse of the Cod-Fishery", Townships Week, The Record (29 March 1996)

"Hot Doc", Townships Week, The Record (8 March 1996)

"Abbott Chronicles a Community’s Struggle to Save its Mountain", The Gazette (19 August 1995)

"We Don’t Know These Stories Any Longer: In Which a Tomifobia Filmmaker Creates a First-of-its-Kind Television Documentary About the People of Nunavik", The Stanstead Journal (19 May 1993)

"Review of Children in Photography", Photo Life (May 1993)

"Faces of the Children", The Gazette (20 October 1990)

"Writer Looks to Home for Next Book", The Stanstead Journal (31 January 1990)

"A Career of Recording Minorities", The Stanstead Journal (31 January 1990)

"Gentle Witness: Louise Abbott’s Sensitive Approach to Photojournalism Has Produced Rare Insights Into Fragile Cultures in Quebec and Newfoundland", Photo Life (July 1989)

"North Shore Revelations", Matrix (Spring 1989)

"Review of The Coast Way", McGill News (Spring 1989)

"Review of The Coast Way", Canadian Geographic (December 1988-January 1989)

"Charting Change in a Coast Culture", Now (Toronto) (27 October 1988)

"The World at Your Table", Saturday Magazine, The Toronto Star (15 October 1988)

"At Last a Book that Lets the People Tell Their Own Stories", Townships Week, The Record (16 September 1988)

"People of the Coast", The Gazette (3 September 1988)

"Lower North Shore Held Strong Fascination for Abbott", Townships Week, The Record (26 August 1988)

"Women Behind the Lens", The Gazette (6 May 1986)

"View Through the Lens", The Gazette (31 March 1986)

"Shooting for a Place in History", The Globe and Mail (23 February 1985)

"Freelancer Must Be Organized…", The Gazette (15 May 1984)

Ovo Photo (July 1984)

Ovo Photo (November 1983)

"Review of Iona: Recollections of a Pilgrimage", The Townships Sun (August 1982)

"Review of Iona: Recollections of a Pilgrimage", The Gazette (31 October 1981)

« Iona: Recollections of a Pilgrimage », La Presse, 31 octobre 1981

Canadian Women Studies (Fall 1980)

Ovo Photo (November-December 1979)

Rising Toward Perfection", Saturday Night (April 1977)

"Money Woes Drain Powerhouse Gallery", The Gazette (27 March 1976)

"Review of Louise Abbott’s Exhibition at Powerhouse", The Montreal Star (18 March 1976)

"Women Behind the Lens", The Gazette (2 November 1974)

« Les femmes aussi font des photos », La Presse, 12 octobre 1974

Ovo Photo (September-October 1974)

Ouvrages / Books

Taproot III: Poetry, Prose and Images from the Eastern Townships (Sherbrooke: Townshippers’ Association, 2004)

Hivers, Montréal, Les 400 coups, 2003

Taproot II: Poetry, Prose and Images from the Eastern Townships (Sherbrooke: Townshippers’ Association, 2002)

Taproot: Poetry, Prose and Images from the Eastern Townships (Sherbrooke: Townshippers’ Association, 1999)

Je parle français : un portrait de la francophonie canadienne, Gouvernement du Canada, 1999

Montréal au XXe siècle, Montreal, Les éditions de l’Homme, 1995

Facing History (Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1993)

Treasures of the National Archives of Canada
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992)

Telling Differences: New English Fiction from Quebec (Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1989)

Haiti:The Duvaliers and their Legacy (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988)

Voies intimes, voix intimes, Montréal, La Galerie d’Art Lavalin, 1988

Notre Province / Our Province (Beaconsfield: Cooperative for the Development of Instructional Materials, 1985)

The Female Eye, National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa: Clarke-Irwin, 1975)




ÉCRITS PUBLIÉS / PUBLISHED WRITINGS
  Abbott, Louise, A Country So Wild and Grand: A Travel Guide to the Lower North Shore of Quebec (St. Paul’s River, Qc: Coasters’ Association, 1999)

Abbott, Louise, The French Shore: Newfoundland’s Port-au-Port Peninsula (Calgary: Waterous & Co., in association with Folio Gallery Inc., 1996)

Abbott, Louise, The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988)