News and updates

Upcoming:

Winter / Spring of 2026

I am honoured to be a guest curator at the Langham Cultural Centre in winter/spring of 2026. I will be curating a group show, LOOT : Thinking with/as Matter. The curatorial thesis for the show explores the relationship of humans to matter in its many forms: plant, mineral, animal, fungal and other. How has our privileging of human over other forms of matter shaped the world we inhabit? What would it look like if human/other, matter/spirit were understood not a separate but integrated?

The artists selected to participate in LOOT are all part of  “10 Thieves Artist Collective”. The Collective emerged over the past two years in a shared interest to gather monthly to read and discuss Post-Human Feminism issues and concerns. From these gatherings, “10 Thieves 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 exhibition will be accompanied by an Arts Symposium with keynote presentation, panel discussions and artist talks.

In Progress :

2025

Spring of 2025

At this time, I am in residence at DRAWinternational in Caylus, France. I have just finished up a 7 week residency where I focused on my drawing through the creation of new work on paper. It has been an incredible experience to live in a small, historic Medieval village. I have long been interested in the lives of women during the late Medieval period. In particular, the emergence of female mystics and the notorious shapeshifters,  healers and visionaries know as witches. The residency has brought my research to a more embodied sense of this period in time and a even greater curiosity about the lives of women during what was a foundational period of western culture.

I will be shipping many of my drawing back to Nelson where I can continue to work on their unfolding and eventually sharing them in a exhibition of new works.

 

– GREAT NEWS- Up Coming exhibition 

Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery (NMAG) Curator, Arin Fay has invited me to exhibit Boat without a Boat at the gallery in the fall of 2025! The exhibition will run from mid-November, 2025 through to early February 2026.

I am so excited to bring this body of new work to Nelson community!

The artworks in Boat without a Boat launched in the summer of 2024 at Grand Forks Art Gallery ( GFAG-Gallery 2) in Grand Forks, BC. The exhibition was curated by the galleries director and head curator, Tim VanWijk.  The artwork includes; 10 large figurative-based assemblages using drawings and paper cutouts,  and two stop motion animation films. Both the assemblages and videos are new directions in my practice. The theme of the exhibition is the  migration of consciousness from one realm to another.

 

Vesuvia

 See section Boat without a Boat with Gallery of images.  Links to stop motion animation videos are available upon request.

 

I am honoured to be the recipient of  a Research and Creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for the project.

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 Sointual 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.