Susan McEachern: Equine Studies
Equine Studies features work by Nova Scotia photographer Susan McEachern, including the series Herbivores, Grasses, and the videos Micah and Me and Urban Pasture.
The artist writes: ” I have been exploring the human relationship to animals within my creative production, and to history, gender and feeling. My study of horses and the history and significance of the horse-human partnership has allowed me to reside in what feels like a simultaneous past and present. Horses seem to have been human companions from the very first; they are represented in the first known human-made images. Their history parallels human history, and so their needs have paralleled human needs. These photographs are a mark of my efforts to understand my bond to these other members of the natural world.”
Image: Susan McEachern, Herbivores, 2006, photograph.
Publication
Foreword by Gemey Kelly
Essay by John Murchie
Design by Robert Tombs
Published by Owens Art Gallery
