Artist Statement
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I make batik/paintings incorporating mixed media
sculptural elements. The sculptural elements
serve to signify and strengthen the conceptual meaning or intent of the
particular piece(s).
The conceptual frameworks orient around the relationship between humans and the natural environment and/or ecosystems. My work is concerned with rebuilding and remembering. In the process and examination of rebuilding and remembering, boundaries are explored. The boundaries between natural and unnatural, between human and non-human, and between wild and 'domesticated' are pertinent to my work. Often, there is a sense of apocalypse, disturbance, chaos, anxiety and the sublime. The works are surreal yet whimsical fictions. Ambiguity, contradiction, and juxtaposition are common tactics within my work, for expressing the complexity and paradoxical manner of humans within the natural world.
The conceptual frameworks orient around the relationship between humans and the natural environment and/or ecosystems. My work is concerned with rebuilding and remembering. In the process and examination of rebuilding and remembering, boundaries are explored. The boundaries between natural and unnatural, between human and non-human, and between wild and 'domesticated' are pertinent to my work. Often, there is a sense of apocalypse, disturbance, chaos, anxiety and the sublime. The works are surreal yet whimsical fictions. Ambiguity, contradiction, and juxtaposition are common tactics within my work, for expressing the complexity and paradoxical manner of humans within the natural world.
Curriculum Vitae
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Solo Exhibitions
2010/2011
Allow me to Introduce...and Take Away..., Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidegate BC.
2009/2010
Haida Gwaii Art Route, Queen Charlotte BC.
2008
Becoming Bygones, Queen B's gallery, Queen Charlotte BC.
2006
So Solo, University of Victoria, Victoria BC.
Group Exhibitions
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
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.
Solo Exhibitions
2010/2011
Allow me to Introduce...and Take Away..., Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidegate BC.
2009/2010
Haida Gwaii Art Route, Queen Charlotte BC.
2008
Becoming Bygones, Queen B's gallery, Queen Charlotte BC.
2006
So Solo, University of Victoria, Victoria BC.
Group Exhibitions
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
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.
