J.J. L’Heureux Prints New Zealand Sea Lion - Enderby Island, New Zealand, 27 x 21 inches, framed Drescher Ice Shelf - Drescher Inlet, Antarctica, 27 x 21 inches, framed Chinstrap Penguin - Deception Island, Antarctica, 27 x 21 inches, framed Macaroni Penguin - Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Emperor Penguin - Atka Bay, Antarctica, 27 x 21 inches, framed Wandering Albatross Chick - Prion Island, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Adelie Penguin - Paulet Island, Antarctica, 27 x 21 inches, framed Snares Penguin - Snares Island, New Zealand, 27 x 21 inches, framed Rockhopper Penguin - Pebble Island, Falkland Islands, 27 x 21 inches, framed Antarctic Fur Seal - Elsehul, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed New Zealand Sea Lion Female – Enderby Island, New Zealand, 27 x 21 inches, framed Iceberg - Scotia Sea, Antarctica, 27 x 21 inches, framed Emperor Penguins - Snow Hill Island, Antarctica, 27 x 21 inches, framed Moulting Southern Elephant Seal - Macquarie Island, Australia, 27 x 21 inches, framed King Penguin - Macquarie Island, Australia, 27 x 21 inches, framed Imperial Shag - Pebble Island, Falkland Islands, 27 x 21 inches, framed Erect-crested Penguin - Antipodes Island, New Zealand, 27 x 21 inches, framed Antarctic Fur Seal Pup - Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed King Penguin Chick - Holmestrand, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Bounty Island - Bounty Island, New Zealand, 27 x 21 inches, framed Emperor Penguin Chick - Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 27 x 21 inches, framed Leopard Seal - Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia, 27 x 21 inches, framed Black-browed Albatross - Saunders Island, Falkland Islands, 27 x 21 inches, framed Gentoo Penguin Chick - Macquarie Island, New Zealand, 27 x 21 inches, framed Moulting King Penguin - Possession Bay, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Elephant Seal - Iris Bay, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Iceberg (fog) - Scotia Sea, Antarctica, 27 x 21 inches, framed Weddell Seal Female - Larsen Harbour, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Weddell Seal Pup - Larsen Harbour, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Yellow-eyed Penguin - Enderby Island, New Zealand, 27 x 21 inches, framed Royal Penguin - Macquarie Island, Australia, 27 x 21 inches, framed Southern Royal Albatross - Campbell Island, New Zealand, 27 x 21 inches, framed Reindeer - Ocean Harbour, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Adelie Penguin Chick - Cape Adare, Antarctica, 27 x 21 inches, framed Giant Petrel - Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Buller’s Albatross - Snares Island, New Zealand, 27 x 21 inches, framed Skua - St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Gentoo Penguin - Holmestrand, South Georgia Island, 27 x 21 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut 1, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Colman Boots 2, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Stove, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 26 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Boots & Bed, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 27 x 30 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Boots & Biscuits, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Biscuits, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Colman Boots 1, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Boots, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Moir’s, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Shackleton’s Signature, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Irish Stew, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Shackleton’s Hut - Hut 2, Cape Royds, Antarctica, 26 x 33 inches, framed Ross Ice Shelf, large print for installation, 33 x 144 inches Ross Ice Shelf, installation views at Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, 2017 J.J. L’Heureux Artist’s Statement FACES from the SOUTHERN OCEAN This is a series of 38 faces (portraits) and 12 Shackleton Hut Series images from the Southern Ocean. Faces and eyes are among the first thing we register when meeting our fellow human beings. We gather a great deal of intuitive and emotional information from our observations. Faces are also at the front of inanimate things from glaciers and mountains to descriptive expressions like “facing the future” or “facing the facts.” Antarctica is completely surrounded by the Southern Ocean. The Southern Ocean as a defined geologic feature was officially designated by the International Hydrographic Organization only nineteen years ago in 2000. The Organization decided that this ocean would extend from the coasts of Antarctica to 60 degrees south latitude. As such it is the only Ocean that is defined in this fashion and it does not touch any other continent other than the one it surrounds. There have been years of debate on the subject and the debate will probably continue into the future. One of the important factors in setting the limits of the ocean at 60 degrees south latitude is that it is also the limit of the United Nations’ Antarctic Treaty that governs all nations using Antarctica and the surrounding waters. My intention is to introduce you to the faces of a few of the notable inhabitants I have met and spent time with throughout the Southern Ocean, its islands and Antarctica. When we meet new people we often reach out, shake hands and peer into the face of the new person. It is a way of coming to some tentative conclusions about the new person and a means to establish a file, a memory. Another of my purposes is to give you a close up of an individual face that you may never have the opportunity to experience. I have selected characters for this series from 17 expeditions that belong to typical Southern Ocean occupants. I hope that in seeing some of these fellow beings as individuals that they will become more memorable to you. *Prints in the series are in editions of 9, with 1 printer proof and 2 artists’ proofs. J. J. L’Heureux J.J. L’Heureux Artist’s Statement Shackleton Hut Photographs – Cape Royds, Antarctica My Sir Ernest Shackleton Hut photographs are intended to illuminate and celebrate Shackleton’s time at Cape Royds. This project is an unfinished chapter in an eighteen-year odyssey in Antarctica that contains 17 different expeditions. Like Frank Hurley, Shackleton’s expedition photographer, my first purpose was to pho- tograph the rich environment of ice, the diversity of surprising colors, shapes and monumental sizes. Along the way a larger insight into Antarctica and its history developed. To succeed in getting to such places as Cape Royds in the Ross Sea involves a long and difficult sea voyage as well as the high probability that one will not be able to land due to conditions such as sea ice or terrible weather. Once having landed there is a long, uphill climb in icy and windy conditions past a huge Adelie Penguin colony. The small, unpainted hut is at the end of this struggle as it was for Shackleton and the men who lived there for more than a year. Entering the hut and getting out of the constant wind and cold brought for me a sense of accomplishment. Then there is the interior of the hut itself, stacked with the supplies and equipment necessary for the original expedition to survive. They left their supplies, clothing, coffee pot on the stove and other direct statements of what was going on physically at the moment of their departure. I was immediately struck by the focal point of the hut…the stove. The stove was the sole generator of warmth and also the center of social as well as physical survival for the men. This Shackleton series is my homage and celebration to the spirit of the place. Except for the sounds of the rookeries and the wind, there is a complete absence of industrial sound. Photographs lack sound or any suggestion of it. It is as if each scene has been encapsulated and frozen in crystal pure ice. It was overwhelmingly clear to me that there was much more than ice and snow here and I would be able to create a number of different series of work. Landscape has always been an important element in my paintings, but the white on white wilderness and purity of Antarctica, its amazing wildlife and history soon convinced me to continue to work on the color field paintings but also to expand my vision in a number of other directions with photographs. My Antarctic photography has opened a more immediate and accessible expression of my concern, attraction and enthusiasm for documenting the environment, its wildlife and history. J. J. L’Heureux Shackleton’s Hut, Cape Royds, Antarctica: History This hut was the base for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 or The Nimrod Expedition. In March of 1908 a party of five was the first to climb Mt. Erebus the world’s most southern volcano. In January of 1909 fifty year old Professor Edgeworth David led a party of three to be the first to reach the Magnetic South Pole after a 1600 km sledging journey. In late 1908 Shackleton led a party of four in his attempt to be the first to reach the Geographic South Pole. After man hauling for two and a half months he was less than 97 nautical miles from the Pole but decided to return to the hut. His decision to return was considered to be one of the finest in early polar history. The expedition also discovered over 800 km of new mountain range and pioneered the way to the Antarctic Plateau.