TYLER BRULE
Journalist, Founder - Wallpaper and Monocle
RACHEL BROWN
Founder - Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers
RUTH JACOBS COHEN COLLIE
Writer
J.H. ASHDOWN
Businessman "Merchant Prince of Winnipeg"
IZZY ASPER
Lawyer Media Magnate
MARGARET LAURENCE
Novelist
ETIENNE GABOURY
Architect
MINNIE J. CAMPBELL
Social Activist
GUY MADDIN
Filmmaker
DEANNA DURBIN
Actress
MARCEL DZAMA
Artist
NELLIE MCCLUNG
Feminist Activist
LIONEL LEMOINE FITZGERALD
Artist - Group of Seven
GABRIEL ROY
Author
MONTY HALL
Game Show Host
NAHANNI FONTAINE
Political Activist
SYLVIA OSTRY
Economist
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK
Singer Songwriter
FRANZ JOHNSTON
Artist - Group of Seven
SENATOR MURRAY SINCLAIR
Chair, Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission
MIRA SPIVAK
Politician
SIR WILLIAM STEPHENSON
WWII Spy “The Real James Bond”
48 Portraits was inspired by Gerhard Richter’s 48 Portraits of white European men of historic and cultural interest painted for the German pavilion of the 1972 Venice Biennale, and Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein’s reply 20 years later with 48 women. For her solo exhibition Something About Winnipeg, Freeman expanded the dialogue to equal numbers of female and male figures, all Winnipeg connected, some known, some less-known, some of aboriginal heritage, in an attempt to level the playing field and address issues of rights and equality.
48 PORTRAITS
Acrylic on mylar on wood panel
60 x 68 inches, 5.5 x 7 inches each