PROVENANCE
Cineplex Entertainment, Granville 7 Theatre, Vancouver

LITERATURE
David Burnett, Cineplex Odeon: The First Ten Years, 1989, page 90, reproduced pages 90 and 91

Jack Shadbolt’s stunning, large-scale work Tree of Life was originally installed in Cineplex Odeon’s Granville Cinemas in downtown Vancouver. A painted wood relief construction, it is comprised of hundreds of pieces of shaped plywood. David Burnett wrote that Shadbolt has described Tree of Life as ‘a transformation piece – art paraphrasing nature…..The construction is abstract in image, but here and there the forms of flowers and seed pods are apparent. These are ‘symbolic suggestions’ he has said, ‘of an underlying and irrepressible force of natural growth that would take over the available terrain for its own.’”

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