These constructions are on site connecting traditional, natural, textural and everyday materials that are symbolic of the narrative. In this series I am working with light and reflections integrating materials into the landscape and documenting with photography.
The work responds to my interaction in the local landscape, travels and short residencies throughout Canadian
urban/rural/suburban environments.
i am continuously exploring the carbon footprint local to unfamiliar, they are landscapes centred on the impact of the narrative, "identifying landscapes as cultural symbols". the Forest photographs title submerged and Plasticity connecting to plastic as an environmental concern for the Muskoka Watershed.
The location s were based on my family's land and forest of the installations and documentation were along the shoreline of the Muskoka River South Branch. This series of photographs submerged in water, rocks and in the forest perpetuate the premise of the interconnectedness of all in our environments. Playing with what is now verses what was contemplating "What if this River was never flooded and the hydro dam system disappeared? What would the Muskoka Watershed look like?"
The work responds to my interaction in the local landscape, travels and short residencies throughout Canadian
urban/rural/suburban environments.
i am continuously exploring the carbon footprint local to unfamiliar, they are landscapes centred on the impact of the narrative, "identifying landscapes as cultural symbols". the Forest photographs title submerged and Plasticity connecting to plastic as an environmental concern for the Muskoka Watershed.
The location s were based on my family's land and forest of the installations and documentation were along the shoreline of the Muskoka River South Branch. This series of photographs submerged in water, rocks and in the forest perpetuate the premise of the interconnectedness of all in our environments. Playing with what is now verses what was contemplating "What if this River was never flooded and the hydro dam system disappeared? What would the Muskoka Watershed look like?"
Plasticity 2019-2022
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Forest, Plasticity I 2020...............In Exhibition at Women's Art Association of Canada, Summertime Exhibition, June- August 2021
Iris at 20
OISE University of Toronto, Faculty of Education and Women's Studies 2017
OISE University of Toronto, Faculty of Education and Women's Studies 2017
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Ignorance 2016
I wondered why these derogatory sayings like “Wife and Dog missing, reward for Dog” and “Morning Bitches” end up in our everyday experiences whether it be on vacation, on our way to work or just driving down the road?
What is a person’s intent when they project their thoughts outward from road signs to license plates or social media?
Why and what makes them compelled to share their controversial thinking?
Exhibition "Iris at 20"
Robert McLaughlin Gallery 2016
I wondered why these derogatory sayings like “Wife and Dog missing, reward for Dog” and “Morning Bitches” end up in our everyday experiences whether it be on vacation, on our way to work or just driving down the road?
What is a person’s intent when they project their thoughts outward from road signs to license plates or social media?
Why and what makes them compelled to share their controversial thinking?
Exhibition "Iris at 20"
Robert McLaughlin Gallery 2016
Filmic, Whitby Station Gallery, 2015
Icebox 2015
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The premise surrounding the exhibition Filmic for the Iris Group was to expand upon the concept, “what to do with the 35 mm film in our refrigerator or negatives stored away, pictures of people and places from the past”.
I connected my work to the exhibition with images of drawings and photographs I created on site in the Badlands of Alberta, north of Drumheller, Alberta in Horse Thief Canyon.
They are documented archetypes that then dissolve, washed or blown away by wind and rain or covered with rock. The couplings of the two pairs of photographs are documentations of work in the same location one year apart. The drawings and photographed sculpture are images reflecting past creatures lying beneath the layers of sedimentary rock.
I used a 1940’s Icebox inserting a digital photo frame in the top where the ice was original put, responding to the location of many fossils buried and preserved in ice as well as the initial premise of the exhibition. I chose this area to display videos and stop motion film of the body of work “Existence” Alien in Alberta.
I connected my work to the exhibition with images of drawings and photographs I created on site in the Badlands of Alberta, north of Drumheller, Alberta in Horse Thief Canyon.
They are documented archetypes that then dissolve, washed or blown away by wind and rain or covered with rock. The couplings of the two pairs of photographs are documentations of work in the same location one year apart. The drawings and photographed sculpture are images reflecting past creatures lying beneath the layers of sedimentary rock.
I used a 1940’s Icebox inserting a digital photo frame in the top where the ice was original put, responding to the location of many fossils buried and preserved in ice as well as the initial premise of the exhibition. I chose this area to display videos and stop motion film of the body of work “Existence” Alien in Alberta.
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White Out, Nuit Blanche 2014
Ertyl Land Surveyors Permanent Collection
Ertyl Land Surveyors Permanent Collection
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Existence II
Space Invaders 2014
Expanding on my adventures in the Badlands dreaming, finding, thinking and exploring a wondrous landscape. Pondering connections to the landscapes that I know so well in Ontario.
Space Invaders 2014
Expanding on my adventures in the Badlands dreaming, finding, thinking and exploring a wondrous landscape. Pondering connections to the landscapes that I know so well in Ontario.
The above photos describe and support a visual understanding of the landscape I traveled to the Badlands in Alberta, createing this series of of photos documenting pastel/charcoal drawings, on mud and building sculptural pieces from natural materials interwoven with found objects reflective of my thoughts.and questions surrounding the permanency of art, meaning both subjectively and objectively.
Alien in Alberta, 18x24 Inkjet prints printed on recyclable paper, 12 pieces.
This work explores findings and responses to specific sites, Horse Thief Canyon, Badlands, and eastern plains of Alberta with drawing and constructions. This work shares a common destiny with the Plains buffalo and fossils of past life fill the valleys of the Badlands. Their “Once upon a time….”existence I find intoxicating.
All present and future is intertwined with the past in these landscapes, stories of life, knowledge and understanding. This series created in July and August 2013- 2014 are a time of inspiration, learning, thinking and creating.
Alien in Alberta, 18x24 Inkjet prints printed on recyclable paper, 12 pieces.
This work explores findings and responses to specific sites, Horse Thief Canyon, Badlands, and eastern plains of Alberta with drawing and constructions. This work shares a common destiny with the Plains buffalo and fossils of past life fill the valleys of the Badlands. Their “Once upon a time….”existence I find intoxicating.
All present and future is intertwined with the past in these landscapes, stories of life, knowledge and understanding. This series created in July and August 2013- 2014 are a time of inspiration, learning, thinking and creating.
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Existence I
Space Invaders 2013
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Deviant Tour
Of Mice and Men
Red Head Gallery Exchange Exhibition with Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel, Mexico with Iris Group and other Red Head Members 2009
Permanent collection Kunsthaus Gallery
Of Mice and Men
Red Head Gallery Exchange Exhibition with Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel, Mexico with Iris Group and other Red Head Members 2009
Permanent collection Kunsthaus Gallery
Fluid II
Agnes Etherington Gallery, with Iris Group in Minden 2009
Agnes Etherington Gallery, with Iris Group in Minden 2009
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The Edge
Red Head Gallery, with Iris Group in Toronto 2009
Red Head Gallery, with Iris Group in Toronto 2009
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Manipulation, Oak Ridge Moraine, 2007
Hamilton Artists Inc. with Margaret Rodgers 2011
Hamilton Artists Inc. with Margaret Rodgers 2011
The under structure of Manipulation.
Stitched reused aluminum press plates and copper.
Stitched reused aluminum press plates and copper.
Fish Bowl Project I 2007
Downtown Oshawa with Hailey Yates. We were connecting the concrete downtown jungle with the geographical position of Oshawa as a city/community on Lake Ontario pondering the effects and actual of the lake shore environment. Art outside of the gallery institution broadening the audience, breaking free of the fish bowl lense.
Downtown Oshawa with Hailey Yates. We were connecting the concrete downtown jungle with the geographical position of Oshawa as a city/community on Lake Ontario pondering the effects and actual of the lake shore environment. Art outside of the gallery institution broadening the audience, breaking free of the fish bowl lense.
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Fluid I
Latcham Gallery, Stoufville with Iris Group 2007
Latcham Gallery, Stoufville with Iris Group 2007
HOLY CITY, 2000
Once Upon a Time.......2012
Muskoka Forest Installation
Muskoka Forest Installation
Museum of Baghdad with Iris and Friends, Lathcham gallery, Visual Arts Centre and Propellor Gallery, 2003
Symbiosis
Symbiosis
Preliminary sketch
1997-1998
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
Reused Aluminum press plates from Bowmanville Statesman,
local news remains on the back of the local landscape images.
Robert McLaughlin Gallery
1998 - 2006
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Evolving Artifacts
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Illana, 1986
Acrylic on canvas, TV and plexi 9 x 7 ft Sheridan Graduate Show, Metro Toronto Library, 1986 Emerging Artists, The Station Gallery, Whitby, 1987 |
Rockface, 1984
Acrylic on canvas, burlap,tar paper, aluminum with clay sculptures Sheridan College Studio, Thesis |