REBECCA ANWEILER

Rebecca Anweiler completed her MFA at Concordia University in 2000. She has been teaching Drawing, Painting and Foundation Studies in the Fine Art (Visual Art) Program at Queen’s University for the past 20 years.

 

Anweiler's interest in critically investigating the cultural meanings underlying representation of gender, sexuality and the natural world as constructed through norms produced by education and scientific systems informed much of her earlier series of paintings. Her background in biology and education supported these various lines of inquiry. Over the last 20 years, intuitive relationships with animals and other elements of the natural world, along with early life experiences of both trauma and the mystical, has led to seeking new ways to explore the magical and the mysterious in both her artwork and her life.

 

Anweiler has exhibited extensively in Canada in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her paintings are in many private collections, as well as the public collections of the City of Toronto, the University of Lethbridge, Alberta and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario.