I’ve just finsihed up my first term with Glogauair and entering my second. Been a great time and making some interesting progress with my artwork. Check out some samples below.
I started my residency with Glogauair earlier this month. I started a smaller painting and also a new print for a potential fabric project. I have also been busy spreading my Glitter cat sticker over surfaces of Berlin. The Glogauair group listed Somos earlier this week and I also got to see some interesting installations and exhibitions at the converted Flughafen Tempelhof. So far been fun and making new friends. I’ll be here till March but will still have some exhibitions and projects go up in Alberta! My insta is a bit more alive than here but come back occasionally for updates.
Special thanks to my Funders: Canada Council for the Arts and Calgary Arts Development for funding this residency.
My banners are up! You can find them throughout Calgary, such as Olympic Plaza, Centre st Bridge, Kensington bridge and more. Check out CADA’s website here and learn more about the project. They will be up for a year.
I was shortlisted for the Woolwich contemporary art fair but was selected for their online exhibition from July 8 -16 you can buy my piece! It would ship from Calgary not UK just FYI and its a painting/print piece.
Check out there website here where you can buy this marvellous piece!
I just finished my residency with Mentoring Artists women’s art. It was an amazing experience, makes me question if I should move to Winnipeg. I wanted to do this residency to get away from current life and just re-focus on my practice. I was able to sketch again, I feel like I haven’t been able to for a few years and that has opened a creative well for me. As well I found some new avenue’s to explore with my practice. I am looking at how Sci fi, folklore and utopia’s relate to my identity as an artist. Now I can work towards re-structuring how I think about my artwork. I saw really cool artsy films with the Dave Barber cinematheque, saw some amazing art at the WAG, Plug in and Blinkers Blinkers. Got to meet up with old peers and friends and I took an intro into Blender course with Videopool. Very fun and productive time, and I have to thank all the volunteers and staff at MAWA and to Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) for giving me a grant to fund everything.
Check out MAWA here
Check out AFA here
I recently completed a mural project with Palimpshed in Calgary. Located in the alley way behind Weeds Cafe in the NW Calgary. The mural incorporates past muralists Justin Scott Studio and the Wanderwell Collective. Curated by Terese Mullin it will be up all summer of 2023. I was inspired by the previous two muralists and thought of planets and a space theme. Science fiction romance is a new avenue I would like to explore in my practice and this was a great opportunity. I broke the shed into three parts and created an abstract comic of cosmic melodies.
Check out the Energy Futures project and its book Reimagining Fire, curated and edited by Eveline Kolijn. I was a participate in both the art portfolio and the book, I was paired with poet Natalie Meisner and it was an amazing experience. My piece titled “Cling Wrap” is a collograph of both seran-wrap and grass turf that I chine collied together. You can purchase the book on amazon or other local Calgary disruptors.
Amazon link
Durville & Uproots Books link (distributors)
Shot from my exhibition with Emmedia’s 2023 Particle Wave. I have further plans for this project, and to push AR and my animation even further. If you would like you can download the Artivive App for free on your android or IOS device and even view it through the screen!
Ill be participating with this year’s Particle Wave hosted by EMMEDIA! I’m playing with AR and painting for the first time so it should be an interesting piece. Look forward to seeing your there!
Come join me and witness my latest body of artwork.
When our familiar place is distorted by chaos, things are no longer what they seem. Our walls crumble and our bones break. Shapes that suggest our bedrooms, limbs, kitchens, bodies and living rooms erupt with uncertainty. Our place reflects who we are, it shows on our skin and grounds us in the reality of the self. Structure of Bones tells a flowing narrative through characters made of repeating pattern that live inside of a world made of painted flowers, torn down houses, peeling wallpaper, vices, and residue of struggles.
March 9-30th 2023, Artpoint Main Gallery.1038 17th Ave SE Calgary
Reception March 9th 7-9pm.
Contact artist to view gallery outside reception.
I was a-part of the People’s Portrait Prize this year. Organized and curated by Aaron Sidorenko. My works were up at Contemporary Calgary. Thanks to all the volunteers for organizing!
The Hand at Fenix Arts is an international exhibition of handmade prints and photographs juried by Adam Finkelston, the co-editor and publisher of the Hand Magazine. My artwork “Weep” was included in this exhibition. Exhibition is open till November 15 2022. Check out Fenix arts website to view or purchase the piece and the hand magazine to purchase issue 38 of the Hand Magazine to view my work and the other artists.
Fenix Arts-https://fenixarts.org/
The Hand Magazine https://thehandmagazine.net/
Collaboration Mural With Doro Buch in the garden of Artpoint in Calgary. The mural will be up until Artpoint is unfortunately torn down next year (after December 2023) Anyone can view the mural by going to the backside and up the hill of Artpoint (1038 17 ave SE)
I was featured in long con magazines, issue 11. My works from Memory Lines and a little info about my process is outlined. Check them out here!
I am having a solo exhibition with the Lowlands Clubhouse in Edmonton. It is an extension of my previous exhibition with Helmut space in Leipzig. This exhibition will have a different take on the concept and some new perspectives of the artworks.
I participated with the Mini Galleries this year!. Super fun little project. The galleries are up in Rotary Park until August 30th 2022.
Human Abstract is an exhibition exploring the human form, the self, and the other. Each artist approaches the topic in her own way in their paintings, printmaking, and projection-mapping. The artworks in this exhibition are loosely connected to the similar named poem by William Blake. The poem deals with the critical examination of the Man-made abstract concepts about human nature. Rather than looking back at the origin of this poem, the artists link them to contemporary issues addressing the audience through a critical perspective.
Closing reception on June 24. Projection mapping event each Friday.
My solo exhibition with the Helmut Space in Leipzig opens on May 20! Special thanks to Maeshelle West-Davies for allowing me to show. Opening is at 8pm on May 20 . Show runs till June 3rd 2022.
“What do comics do with, and to, memory and what does memory do to comics?” With a new body of artwork I am investigating the intersection of memory and comics. Specifically the role of comics in memory culture and comics’ ability to simulate or transmit memory. I have been studying the various ways fine-art/comics have interplayed, especially with abstract sequential art/comics. With the comic aspect I have been studying the various ways fine-art/comics have interplayed, especially with abstract sequential art/comics. For example, comics that are not bound to book format.
Poster by Trey Madsen
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