"I
am a conceptual visual textile artist with a background in
traditional quilting. The
past five years have been an experiment in figurative and portrait installation
work. My work thrives on interaction. It has been a unique
interdisciplinary process that bridges visual arts, textile arts,
installation, performance, and new media. Using a free motion sewing
technique and hand quilting, I blend the immediate nature of interaction and mark making with
meditative, introspective text. My work is thematically diverse.
I
often select unconventional materials for my work and my choice to
use a limited range of materials enhances my thematic process. I have addressed
universal issues through my practice such as foreign adoption (My
First Cousin Once Removed), the birth of Canadian culture (Smile the
While), climate change (Storm Surge), the search for the God particle
(Big Bang), as well as more personal matters such as serendipity (Our
Two Paths Crossed), friendship (Postcard from Portugal).
I
have been awarded numerous grants. and have exhibited extensively in
Canada and abroad. I have shown work in Australia, Scotland, Ireland,
England, Portugal and Lithuania. I am committed to the development of
my practice and constantly seek new ways to engage and respond
through it.
During
my residency, I hope to find the one or two in a million (or 10.34
million to be precise...population of Portugal) to develop into a series
of large figurative and portrait pieces that reflect the human spirit, its emotional resonance and the way it manifests in our relationship.
The
notion of the graphic impulse, with its raw, immediate, and unflinching
emotional extremes characterizes my work. Layered, and further
developed into a textile, each stratum reveals itself as a visceral and
emotional voice. I attempt to draw the viewer inward to experience an
encounter with the subject.
I
plan to wander, meander and explore, armed with BIC pens and sketch
book. In search of the ones that will burn impenetrably in my mind. The
ones that will allow me in, for a brief moment. This temporality is
central to my process. "
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