 Image: Northern Lights (2007) . C-print photograph, face-mounted to plexi. 40 x 50 inches.
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Known for making artwork that hovers on the edge of public acceptance, Thorneycroft has pursued subject matter that often challenges her viewing audience. Since 1989, when she began to work in the medium of photography, she has exhibited various bodies of work Canada, the United States, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Moscow, Tokyo, Sydney, Vienna and Belgrade and at the Carpenter Centre for Visual Arts at Harvard University.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards from the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council. Diana Thorneycroft's work is in private, corporate and museum collections throughout Canada, the United States and Russia. Such collections include the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa.
Diana Thorneycroft's work has been the subject of a national radio documentary for the CBC and a CBC national documentary for television. She has also been featured on Adrienne Clarkson Presents, Heartland, and Midday, and reviewed in Border Crossings, Globe and Mail, and Maclean's. Diana's work was published with interviews in a book titled "Diana Thorneycroft: The body, it's lessons and camouflage" (Langford, Martha. September, 2000, Afterimage).
Diana Thorneycroft received her BFA Honours from the University of Manitoba in 1979 and her MA in Art at the University of Wisconsin in 1980. She is an assistant professor in the School of Art at the University of Manitoba.
Diana Thorneycroft lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada .
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