Artist Statement
I make sculptural batiks, with a focus on the relationship between humans and the natural environment. The sculptural elements serve to signify and strengthen the conceptual meaning or intent of the particular piece(s). I also make graphic images with conceptual dilemmas. The conceptual dilemmas focus on the relationship between humans and the natural environment. My work is concerned with remembering, rebuilding, and exploring boundaries. The boundaries between natural and unnatural, between human and non-human, and between wild and domesticated are pertinent to my work.
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2022- Author/ Illustrator vendor and presenter. Wellington County Writer’s Festival, Fergus, Ontario.
2020-2022. Author and Illustrator. Children’s story book The Gassy Lass. https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000160796266
2008-2022- All Island Art Show Group show. Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidegate BC.
2014-2016- Haida Gwaii Film Festival Graphic artist. Haida Gwaii, BC.
2015- Author and Illustrator. Children’s story book A Fly on the Wall. Opening at Queen B’s gallery, Queen Charlotte, BC.
2010/2011- Allow me to Introduce...and Take Away..., Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidegate BC.
2009/2010- Haida Gwaii Art Route, Queen Charlotte BC.
2009- Evolving, Queen B's Gallery, Queen Charlotte, BC.
2008 - Becoming Bygones, Queen B's gallery, Queen Charlotte BC.
2006 - So Solo, University of Victoria, Victoria BC.
Group Exhibitions
2008-2022
All Islands Art Show, Haida Gwaii, B.C.
2007
Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild Art Museum, Idyllwild California.
2007
Painting’s Edge, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside California.
2007
Desperately Mashed, University of Victoria, Victoria BC.
2006
Black Tie Event, University of Victoria, Victoria BC.
2006
The December group, University of Victoria, Victoria BC.
2006
Alter Ego, University of Victoria Victoria BC.
2004
Elora Art Festival, Elora Ontario.
Education
2016-2018
Teacher Education Program, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo BC.
2010-2012
Environmental Practice program, Royal Roads University, Victoria B.C.
2007
'The Edge' Advanced Painting Program with Matthew Ritchie, Dana Schutz, Ronald Reiss, and contemporary painters, Idyllwild California.
2007
B.F.A. Visual Arts Honors program, University of Victoria, Victoria BC.
2004- 2007
Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, Visual arts, University of Victoria, Victoria BC.
2001- 2003
Women’s Studies and Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario.
Memberships
2021-present
Active member of the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).
2021-present
Active member of Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP).
