For decades, renowned Canadian artist Gathie Falk has captivated the imagination of the public. Her art reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the everyday, and the witty/surreal/poignant juxtapositions of familiar objects and sights such as apples, shoes, chairs, clothing, gardens, sidewalks, night skies and pieces of water. A wealth of 100 images — 55 of them in full colour and six essays, reveal the significant threads in Falk’s career: her ground-breaking installations, ceramic sculptures and performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, and her acclaimed paintings and sculptures of the past twenty years. Falk was born in 1928 in Alexander, Manitoba, and at sixteen was forced by the family’s circumstances to labour in warehouses and packing plants while completing high school at night. After moving to Vancouver in 1947, Falk became a schoolteacher for thirteen years, studying art in summer and evening courses. Despite a late start, she became a fulltime artist in 1965. In 1990, Gathie Falk was awarded the Gershon Iskowitz Prize for “the extraordinary range of her work and the substantial contribution she has made,” in recognition of her achievement as an artist whose career has been inventive and coherent, disarming and provocative. Award-winning writer Robin Laurence's look at Falk’s life and work in a major biographical essay is both engaging and enlightening. Bruce Grenville and Ian Thom of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Mayo Graham of the National Gallery of Canada and noted critic Sarah Milroy contribute shorter essays that illuminate significant works.