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This tryptic wall hanging created in hooked wool is a copy of the stained glass windows in Saint Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Bridgetown, Barbados. Rug hooking is Carol’s avocation and she is a member of the NL Hooking Guild and the International Guild of Handhooking Rugmakers.

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Category: ART AND RIVALRY

JOAN SULLIVAN: Unauthorized bio of Mary and Christopher Pratt both rewards and rankles

As the title indicates, Carol Bishop-Gwyn’s book is a detailed excavation of the marriage of Mary (née West) and Christopher Pratt, primarily through the lens […]

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Arts File: Rivals in art: The marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt

Some time in the late 1970s, Newfoundland artist Christopher Pratt inexplicably gave his wife, fellow artist Mary Pratt, slides of nude images of his favourite […]

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The Toronto Star: How Mary and Christopher Pratt’s art came out of rivalry — and infidelity

Carol Bishop-Gwyn admits she felt nervous launching her new book, “Art and Rivalry: The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt,” in St. John’s. She was […]

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Quill and Quire – Art and Rivalry: The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt

Canadian landscape painter Lawren P. Harris told Mary Pratt in the early days of her career that if two artists were to wed, only one would […]

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ReviewCanada.ca – Artistic Marriage Licence

This is the biography of a ­marriage. It is a slender book, roughly 230 pages, not counting notes and index. Yet with a judicious instinct […]

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BOOK REVIEWS

The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca, by Carol Bishop-Gwyn
THE PURSITE OF PERFECTION
The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca, by Carol Bishop-Gwyn
February 8, 2020
MaClean’s Review: The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca
THE PURSITE OF PERFECTION
MaClean’s Review: The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca
February 8, 2020
The Toronto Star: Shedding new light on Celia Franca
THE PURSITE OF PERFECTION
The Toronto Star: Shedding new light on Celia Franca
February 8, 2020

INTERVIEWS

Bishop-Gwyn: Franca wanted to be remembered
INTERVIEWS
Bishop-Gwyn: Franca wanted to be remembered
Presenting Charles Taylor Prize nominee Carol Bishop-Gwyn
INTERVIEWS
Presenting Charles Taylor Prize nominee Carol Bishop-Gwyn
Atlantic Voice with Angela Antle – Jan. 5, 2020: Atlantic Voice: Art
INTERVIEWS RADIO
Atlantic Voice with Angela Antle – Jan. 5, 2020: Atlantic Voice: Art
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