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NURSING GRADUATES, 2011

Installation view Gladstone Hotel
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Installation view Gladstone Hotel

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1959 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1959 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1959 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1959 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1960 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1960 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1961 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1961 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1961Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1961Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1962 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1962 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1963 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1963 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1963 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1963 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1964 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1964 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1966 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1966 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1966 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1966 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1967 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1967 Yearbook

TES TES Tososo
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1969-71 Yearbook

Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1970 Yearbook
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Women's College Hospital School of Nursing Graduates,1970 Yearbook

Books, acrylic shelving 96" x 48"
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98 Pulp Novels

Books, acrylic shelving 96" x 48"

Books, acrylic shelving 96" x 48"
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96 Pulp Novels

Books, acrylic shelving 96" x 48"

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NURSING GRADUATES (1959-1971)
14, 21″x30″ inkjet photographs

In 2011, I was commissioned to produce new work in celebration of the 100th anniverary of Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, based on research I conducted over several months in the hospital’s Archives. These photographs of the open pages of WCH student yearbooks reflect the racial and gender conformity of nursing at that time, and thus point to some of important social changes that have since taken place in the profession.

When these works were first shown in the exhibition Being She: The Culture of Women’s Health and Health Care Through the Lens of Wholeness (Gladstone Hotel, Toronto) I commissioned Andrea Fatona to write an essay about the absence of women of colour from nursing to accompany my work.

Download a pdf of essay “Absence and Visiblity: Racialized Nurses in Ontario” by Andrea Fatona here

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