Select Curatorial Projects
LOOT
Spring 2026 at the Langham Cultural Centre, Kaslo, British Columbia.
I’m excited to be invited as a guest curator for the Langham Cultural Centre in the spring of 2026!
I will be presenting new works from “10 Thieves Artist Collective”. The Thieves include; Susan Andrews Grace, Eimear Laffan, Jim Holyoak, Maggie Shirley, Hildur Johansson, Marnie Temple, Carol Wallace, Genevieve Robertson and myself. “10 Thieves” is a group of visual artists living in the Nelson area of British Columbia. This talented and considerate group of artists began gathering in the winter of 2023 to read and discuss Post-Human Feminist ideas and concerns. The gathering have now evolved to include studio visits and preparations for an group exhibition.
The title of the exhibition is LOOT. Through a diverse selection of new artworks the exhibition will explore our paradoxical relationship to matter in a time when human’s desire both to give reverence to matter and to exploit and even destroy it. As a curator and collective member, I will be bringing together artworks from each of the “10 Thieves” that seek open lines of inquiry about this complex relationship to the material realm. Intersections of identity, politics, geography, history and economy will trasverse and examine the very nature of “thingness” that underlies our relationship to materials be it mineral, plant, fungi or animal or plastic!
Salt: the distillation of matter
Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History
Nelson, BC
2008-09
This curatorial project and exhibition explores the nature of impermanence through the work of three artists: Julie Castonguay, Nicole Dextras and Haruko Okano.
“For Deborah Thompson the show’s curator, the exhibition is all about dealing with the theme of impermance: life and death and renewal with a lense on matter in its transformative ways. The show’s title comes from the process of mummification in ancient Egypt where in sea salt was used to preserve the body for the afterlife. This relationship between matter and renewal is at the heart of the exhibition and the works showcased by the three selected artists.”
Nelson Star
ROW: Reflections on Water
Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History
Nelson, BC
2009
A group exhibition that explored the symbolic associations of water through the juxtaposition of selected artifacts from Touchstones Nelson’s archives with the work of nine contemporary artists. Selected artists include, Chris Welsby, Julie Castonguay, Boukje Elzinga, Patrick Field, Marilyn James, Tanya Pixie Johnson, Destanne Norris, Karen Rice and Nancy Rosenblum.
THIRST: Thinking with our senses
Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History
Columbia River Treaty Conference
Spokane, WA
Off site exhibition
2014
This group show was created to bring an another voice into the discussion on the future of the Columbia River Watershed. The exhibition was staged over a three day period during the run of the Columbia River Basin Transboundary Conference in Spokane, WA. In this sense is was a pop – up exhibition with the installation of the work created by 9 artists in the conference centre lobby. Canadian and American artists were selected for the exhibition and to present at the conference. The artists included were Heather MacAskill, Vaughn Bell, Mary Babcock, Toma Villa, Betty Fahlman, Jan Kabatoff and members of Ananta (Alison Girvan, Kathleen Neudorf, Noemi Kiss).
The exhibition was granted an award for “innovation in exhibitions” through the Canadian Museum Association in 2015.
