Stan Denniston

Stan Denniston was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1953. He lives and works in Toronto and constantly struggles to find creative time outside the pressures of his art restoration business. Stan Denniston’s considerable body of work reflects a consistent commitment to the photographic medium, though one would never find a stand-alone photograph. Instead, Denniston has cultivated several series of works that employ the photographic image as a component, either to be paired with another image or accompanied by text. His work revolves around the themes of travel, memory and representation. For a decade, beginning in the late 1980’s, he explored the idea of photography as very unstable evidence to the extent even of being fiction. Denniston has exhibited extensively throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe and his works are included in many collections – private and public – including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, Contemporary Museum of Canadian Photography, Canada Council Art Bank, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), Museum London, Oakville Galleries, Tom Thompson Gallery, CIBC Mellon Trust, Toronto, McCarthy Tetrault, Torys, London Life Insurance Company.