What makes a painting authentic? Can painting stand for something apart from the fetish it has become? For thirty-five years, Ferguson has tackled such questions by substituting mechanical processes and found objects for the hand-made, personalized mark of the artist.

Souvenir 1993-94
excerpt from the Nova Scotia Project ‘Once Upon a Time in the East’ and ‘The Road Journal’
colour photographs and chalk on board
101.5 x 81 cm
Purchased, 1998
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1998.3

Through the Window Bright 1997
Serigraph AP/6
Sheet: 39 x 54 cm; image: 36 x 50.5 cm
Gift of the artist, 1998
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1998.5

Peter Walker
(b. 1945 London, England; lives in Bayswater, NS)
Untitled (canoe) 1990-93
flame-cut steel base, cedar canoe, white pine spar
274.3 x 487.7 x 121.9 cm
Gift of the artist, 1998
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1998.8

Peter Walker
(b. 1945 London, England; lives in Bayswater, NS)
Untitled (tri pod head) 1990-93
flame-cut welded steel base, white pine
426.7 x 137.2 x 45.7 cm
Gift of the artist, 1998
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1998.7