Winter / Spring of 2026

LOOT: Exhibtion and Artist-led Symposium 

I am excited to be the guest curator at the Langham Cultural Centre, in Kaslo, BC this winter and spring.  I have worked in collaboration with an artist collective that I am part of called the Ten Thieves Artist Collective.  As guest curator, I worked with the collective to develop an exhibition of new work,  LOOT: Orienting to Matter. 

The Collective emerged over the past two years through gathering monthly to read and discuss Post-Human Feminism issues and concerns. From these gatherings, this collective was formed.  The Collective members includes; Susan Andrews Grace, Eimear Laffan, Jim Holyoak, Hildur Johansson, Maggie Shirley, Marnie Temple, Genevieve Robertson and Carol Wallace.

The curatorial thesis for the show explores a shift in perspective of humanities relationship and understanding of Matter. The artist’s challenge the western world view of Matter inherited from Classical Humanism that views all of Matter except the white male as being available their for exploitation, extraction and profit. In contrast to this idea the artists propose and explore a kinship world view that focuses on care and reciprocity.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an Artist-led Symposium with keynote presentation by Astrida Neimanis followed by two days of panel discussions and workshops.

The Ten Thieves Artist Collective acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for a concept to realization grant for this project.

                                                                                    Exhibition: Boat without a Boat 

Exhibition of a selection of works from Boat without a Boat at the Nelson Museum, Archive and Gallery in Nelson, BC. The show was curated by Arin Fay, and will include an exhibition catalogue with an essay by Greta Hamilton. The exhibition will run from November 14. , 2025 – February 21,  2026.

Boat without a Boat includes a selection of drawing-based collages and stop motion animation videos created over the past 5 years. Some of the newer pieces were initiated research and work begun while on residency at BoxoPROJECTS in Joshua Tree, CA and DRAWinternational, Caylus, France. This work explores speculative processes of transformation across plant, insect, animal, elemental, spectral and human forms. The work empowers and employs the archaic feminine as the primary agent of this change. It is a feminist body of work in that it emerges from an embodied place – my body – and tells stories of relatedness. The work challenges and seeks to dissolves the human centered narrative of life and moves us alongside transformations that are more-than-human.

See section Boat without a Boat with Gallery of images.

Links to stop motion animation videos: Night Ritual and Midden are available upon request.

 

DRAWinternational Artist in Residency 

Artist in residence at DRAWinternational in Caylus, France, spring 2025. Caylus is a small historic medieval village in the midi-Pyrenee region of southwestern France where I participated in a 8 week residency.  While there I focused my research on several aspect of the late medieval period, particularly the ascetic and material practices of female saints and mystics of this era. In what is an enormous field of research, I found ways to embody my research through walking ancient foot paths that connected sacred water sources, recording sounds, gathering plants, and daily drawing practices back in the studio.

My maternal grandmother was from France although I do not know much about this ancestry it may account for why I feel an uncanny connection to this era and even to Southern France. That aside,  I am fascinated by the societal and cultural transition from feudalism to a capitalist society. How this shift effected the way women are perceived and treated, the loss of women’s agency as a result of the splitting of mind and body, spirit and matter. How do we go forward in mending these damaging separations? How do we re-imagine agency ? and the vibrant and vital role of Matter as a wise and generative focus? How do we see ourselves and each other as vessels of knowledge and transformation?

I am honoured to be the recipient of  a Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for aspect of the project Boat without a Boat.

The project was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

BOXOPROJECTS Residency:

In April of 2024,  I was the artist in residence the BoxoPROJECTS Residency located outside of Joshua Tree, California. During this residency period I began research on the project Moth Sensorium. A multidisciplinary project that explores the secondary senses of sound and smell. Through exercises and explorations into these secondary senses I explore the de-centering of the dominant sense of sight, and the welcoming information garnered from these secondary senses.

Much gratitude for the assistance an Individual Project Grant from  from the British Colombia Arts Council.

Video Still from Cholla Eaters \ stop motion animation / 35s/Original score/HD

 

Part of the research for the body of new work, Boat without a Boat was done while on residency at the Sointula Art Shed on Malcolm Island in 2022. I am grateful to have spent a month in this gorgeous, ocean environment.

 

 

Great thanks to the founders and directors of the ART SHED – Kerri Reid and Tyler Brett who manage and make possible the existence of this incredible residency. My time at the residency was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.