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BOOKS | CATALOGUES | REVIEWS | PRESS

Frappier, Valérie. "Dowsing for Remediation with Alana Bartol." C Magazine, Issue 152 Extraction, Autumn 2022, 32-36. Purchase the issue here.

all roses sleep (inviolate light), Art Gallery of Alberta, 2022. Exhibition catalogue with essay by Lindsey Sharman. Print and online publication, read it here.

Matejko, Agnieszka. "A Bee’s-Eye View: Two Alberta artists offer a whimsical tale about pollinators." Galleries West, 30 Jun 2022. Read it here.

Bartol, Alana. How to Dowse (or a primer on asking better questions), Blackflash Expanded, 12 Oct 2022, Read it here.

Gismondi, Chris. "Creative Conjuring, Ritual, and Place: Amanda Amour-Lynx’s Skite’kmujuawti in Conversation with the Works of James Gardner, Alana Bartol, and Jamie Ross." Esse Magazine, No 105 Nouveau nouvel âge / New New Age, Spring/Summer 2022, 42-51. Purchase here.

Jonsson, Tomas. "Milk and Honey: A Conversation between Alana Bartol, Bill Burns, Alegandro Fangi, and Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed." SK CARFAC Newsletter, May/June 2022, 16-21, 27, front cover image. Read it here.

Frappier, Valérie."Groundwork — A curatorial introduction." Toronto: Critical Distance, 2021.

Rufelds, Miles. “Of Several Depths.” Toronto: the plumb, 2021.

Deiterding, Rachel. "Groundwork and the Animacy of Stone." Musings, 17 Aug. 2021.  

Borsato, Diane, and Amish Morrell, eds. Outdoor School: contemporary environmental art. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2021.

Priegert, Portia. “A Woman Walking.” Galleries West, 26 Jul. 2020.

Fermor, Louis. “Disrupt the Everyday and Point at the Critical: Interview with Alana Bartol.” Mohkinstsis (Calgary): Studio, Apr 2020.

Frappier, Valérie. "Alana Bartol: Orphan Well Adoption Agency, Edmonton, Latitude 53, 7 December 2018 - 26 January 2019", The Senses and Society, 2019, 14:2, 249-252, DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2019.1614299

Mann, Arshy. Commons CRUDE #4 – Orphan Wells: Citizen Con, Canadaland podcast, 14 May 2019

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria. "Re-animating soils: Transforming human–soil affections through science, culture and community", The Sociological Review, 2019, 67:2, 391-407, DOI: 10.1177/0038026119830601

Wong, Julia. Tongue-in-cheek Edmonton art exhibit explores orphaned oil wells adoption Global News Edmonton, 5 Jan 2019

Orphan Well Adoption Agency, Edmonton: Latitude 53, 2019. With texts by Lindsey V. Sharman and Lou Sheppard.
$20 - available for purchase here

found/held, Vancouver: Access Gallery, 2019. With a curatorial essay by Katie Belcher.
$20 - available for purchase here

Demers, Laura. "Greenhouse effects." Hamilton: Hamilton Art Spin, 2019.

Burns, Kay, ed. Tectonic Shift, 2018. Fogo Island: Museum of the Flat Earth, 2018. With texts by Kay Burns, Laurence Weyand, and Lou Sheppard. Read the text by Lou Sheppard here

Bell, Jacqueline."If the River Ran Upward." Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery, 2018

White, Amanda. “Notes from the Deep Earth Treatment Centre.” Naturally Posthuman—Catalyst: Jennifer Willet, ed. Ted Hiebert, Victoria/Seattle: Noxious Sector Press, 2018, pp.165-189. Read the text here

Sharman, Lindsey V. Exhibition Essay: Orphan Well Adoption Agency, Edmonton: Latitude 53, 2018

Kalinowski, Tim. "Artist Bring Attention to Orphan Wells in Alberta." Lethbridge Herald, 2018

Herrera, Arturo, ed. "Featured Artist Project: A Woman Walking (the City Limits)", Barbed Magazine, Spring 2018, pp. 55-70.

Kim, Areum. "When Oil Is Our Lifeblood." Canadian Art, Climates Issue, fall 2018, pp. 98-101.

Crocker, Eva."Review - HOLD FAST Contemporary Arts Festival." Canadian Art online, 2018

Sharman, Lindsey. "Art and Industry." Galleries West, 2018

HOLD FAST Festival Program. St. John’s: Eastern Edge Gallery, 2018, front cover image pp. 7, 17-18.

Hanna, Maeve. Review: Alana Bartol at TRUCK Contemporary Art Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2018

Sprawlcast Ep. 6: Beyond the Blue Ring partially recorded at the d.talks forum on public art in June 2018

Bedet, Ashley."Exhibition Essay: an aware form of care." Mohkinstsis (Calgary): TRUCK Contemporary Art, 2017.

Blume, Libby, and Rosemary Weatherson. “Queering the Campus Gender Landscape through Visual Arts Praxis.” Queer Landscapes: Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy, eds. Lunn, Oakleaf, Elizabeth McNeil and James Wermers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 71-103.

Bingeman, Shannon, ed. A Woman Walking (the City Limits), Mohkinstsis (Calgary): Alberta Society of Artists, 2017.

Sandals, Leah. This Artist Wants You to Adopt an Oil Well. Here’s Why. Canadian Art online, 13 Oct 2017

Edmonds, Pamela. “Artefact - Landscapes of Forgetting.” C Magazine 134: Land, Summer 2017. pp. 76-77.

Sandals, Leah. What Happened When One Artist Tried to Walk Calgary’s 174-km City Limits, Canadian Art online, 2016

Rodney, Lee. Looking Beyond Borderlines: North America’s Frontier Imagination. London, UK: Routledge, 2016, pp. 109-110.

“Featured Artist: Inner End Series.” ROOM Magazine, Dec. 2015, pp. 84-86.

Perlette, Keagan. "Review - Water Witching with Alana Bartol." SAD Mag, 2015

Smith, Greg J. "Abstract Ecologies – A Conversation with Amber Christensen." Creative Applications Network, 22 Sept 2015

Abna, Sandra."Living Art in Ottawa: Bio art on display at Karsh-Masson Gallery.", CBC News, 27 Apr 2015

Far Away So Close Part: III, Vancouver: Access Gallery, 2015. With written contributions by Steffanie Ling and Tanya Lukin Linklater.
$10 - available for purchase here

Phillips, Kimberly. Exhibition Essay for Far Away So Close: Part III, Vancouver: Access Gallery, 2015

Christensen, Amber, “Ecologies”, Exhibition Essay for There Should Be Gardens, Tkaronto (Toronto): InterAccess Gallery, 2015.

Willet, Jennifer ed. Bioart: Collaborating with Life. Ottawa: Karsh-Masson Gallery, 2015.

Katz, Orev Reena, and Alize Zorlutuna, eds. Restless Precinct: An Outdoor Exhibition Exploring Guildwood Park. Toronto: SUM°, 2014. Front cover image, pp. 8.

Brooks, Bernie, and Kristen Gallerneaux, eds. Psycho-Pomp - An Eschatological Guide to the Future, 2013. Del Mar: Ship in the Woods. Front and back cover images, pp. 9-12.

Chen, Dalson. "Artists Research Francois Bâby’s Slave-Owning History.", Windsor Star, 26 Oct 2013