Ice Follies 2023
February 10th - 24th, 2023
Theme: Nbaagzi Mkwam (Thin Ice)
The 2023 theme “Thin Ice” looks at our shifting landscapes and communities, including our changing relationships with our environment and each other.
Liz Lott, An Ice Follies 10th Year Retrospective – A Downtown Walking Tour, 2023
To commemorate Ice Follies’ 10th Anniversary (2004-2023), the event’s official documentation photographer will hold a celebratory exhibition, showcasing past biennial events and the amazing participating artists. Coinciding with the opening of Ice Follies 2023 on Friday, February 10th, nine (***) storefront windows in North Bay’s 100 Block West will chronologically highlight images from each year. A map with storefront locations will be available online or at each location.
Artist Bio:
Liz Lott is a full time professional photographer, visual artist, jeweller, children’s art instructor and a mother living in North Bay, Ontario. Liz has been the Official Ice Follies documentation photographer since its inception in 2004 and She is a member of the White Water Gallery’s board of directors and programming committee.
After studying fine art at Concordia University in 1996 Liz began painting full-time, exhibiting and selling her work throughout Ontario. Her paintings have been selected for several notable juried exhibitions including the Annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition and the Annual Tom Thomson Juried Exhibition in Owen Sound.
With the birth of her son in 2000 she was inspired to explore photography as her primary medium. By the following year Liz began her wedding & portrait business, Snapdragon Photography. She is drawn to both portraiture and landscape images. Using manual cameras and natural light, her portrait images are intimate and candid.
In 2005 Liz exhibited her photography in North Bay’s first juried photography festival, Camera Frontera. In this new body of work she combined photography and painting to explore human impact on the environment with both hopeful and cynical visions. In January of 2006, works from this exhibit were part of a juried exchange show with White Water Gallery called Geophysique held at Propeller Gallery in Toronto.
Liz’s work has been featured in several publications. In 2004 and 2006 Liz was invited to be the official photographer of Ice Follies, a site specific art festival held on Lake Nipissing that gained international attention. Her photographs of the festival have been reproduced in art magazines in Canada and the United States as well as in a hardcover book and poster set published by the W.K.P Kennedy Gallery.
Social Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizlottphotography/?hl=en