Christopher Pratt: The Places I Go gift For Folk’s Sake interrogates the

For Folk’s Sake interrogates the emotive pull of folk art and reconstructs the relationships that emerged between relatively impoverished self-taught artists

This pewter necklace features a jaunty goldfinch from Maud's painting Yellow Birds

La Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

and sculptural installation as a means to explore our relationship to the environment

visiting dozens of creators in their workshops

Christopher Pratt: The Places I Go gift For Folk’s Sake interrogates the"When you revisit a place that matters to you for the first time in a long time it is a rich, spiritual experience, but if you then revisit such a place too frequently it loses some of its power. The power lies in the absences." Christopher Pratt Widely considered to be one of Canada's most prominent and celebrated painters, Christopher Pratt stands with other great artists Alex Colville, Lawren P. Harris, Jean Paul Lemieux, and Lionel LeMoine