PAST HIGHLIGHTS
June 2009
The inaugural exhibition of “LABYRINTH SUBLIME” opens aboard the luxurious vessel M/V THE WORLD. Eighty Keough photographs from this new body-of-work are exhibited during the ship’s leisurely six-week voyage through The Inside Passage.
February 2009
The exhibition “ANTARCTICA: Passion and Obsession” is in its final weeks of public display in Austria at Vienna’s Bezirks Museum and in Canada at The Institute of Ocean Sciences.
March 2008
Two major institutions have acquired ANTARCTICA for their collections — The Museum of Fine Art Houston in Texas, and The Huntington Library in California.
November 2007
Two large solo exhibitions “ANTARCTICA: Passion and Obsession” open this month.
In the United States, the University of Colorado at Boulder celebrates the 40th Anniversary of CIRES, the Co-operative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and hosts a large exhibition of ANTARCTICA, 82 framed prints and pages from the tome at the Norlin Library.
In Austria, The University of Innsbruck celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Center for Canadian Studies with a large solo exhibition of “ANTARCTICA: Passion and Obsession”, 66 framed pages and the tome itself, beginning November 8th.
In England Pat and Rosemarie Keough present their lecture “ANTARCTICA: Passion and Obsession” to the Oxford University Exploration Club, and exhibit ANTARCTICA at the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair November 3 and 4th.
October 2007
Pat and Rosemarie Keough lecture in Melbourne, Australia and on Norfolk Island, South Pacific sharing their presentation “ANTARCTICA: Passion and Obsession” at a special forum of Australia’s World Presidents Organization, and a few days later with residents of Norfolk Island, and then with members and invited guests of Melbourne’s Athenaeum Club.
Toronto, Canada. The Toronto Reference Library hosts a group exhibition “Collected Works: A Public Legacy” including ANTARCTICA. The Keoughs’ tome is opened to photographs of soaring albatrosses and is displayed beneath an original John Audubon lithograph depicting the same magnificent birds. October 20th to December 30th 2007.
September 2007
Budapest, Hungary. By popular request a second exhibition of ANTARCTICA is hosted in the cultural city of Budapest. The palatial Metropolitan Ervin Szabo Library displays 66 framed pages from ANTARCTICA along side the tome September 10th through October 5th.
March 2007
The International Polar Year has finally arrived. Worldwide, scientists are putting their resources toward studying the Arctic and the Antarctic. Rosemarie Keough presented four ANTARCTICA lectures during ICE FEST, the launch of The International Polar Year hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Rosemarie also lectured in New York City to young students of Chapin Middle School, the Convent of the Sacred Heart School. While in New York, she also presented a lecture “ANTARCTICA: Passion and Obsession” at The Explorers Club during the Explorers Club Annual Dinner weekend.
March 2007
Pat and Rosemarie Keough receive their 22nd honour for their ANTARCTICA efforts. The Keoughs were awarded the AFC Conservation Artist Award, March 2007. The Artists for Conservation Foundation is a non-profit juried association of international artists dedicated to celebrating and protecting natural heritage. This honour is bestowed in recognition of outstanding artistic talent and extraordinary contribution to the conservation cause.
January 2007
Budapest, Hungary. ANTARCTICA is enjoyed by great numbers of people, young and old, during a month-long solo exhibition hosted by the Hungarian National Natural History Museum. All 345 images from ANTARCTICA are displayed, completely filling the main central gallery. Rosemarie Keough attended the exhibition where she lectured to bilingual students. She also presented a lecture during a reception at the Canadian Embassy attended by the Canadian Ambassador, staff and Hungarian dignitaries.
November 2006
A $20,000 copy of ANTARCTICA autographed and annotated by 31 noted polar luminaries was acquired by a Canadian collector who acquired this volume as a very special Christmas gift for his wife. Signatories including Norman Vaughan, Admiral Byrd’s dog sled driver at Little America, Ross Ice Shelf 1928-30, Edmund Hillary the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole overland since Robert Falcon Scott, 1957-58, and William Zinsmeister discover of Antarctica’s first land mammal fossils definitively proving that the continent was once connected to South America. The Keoughs’ publishing house offers the only two remaining copies similarly autographed — ANTARCTICA #1/950 and #950/950.