Selected Solo Installations:
2016 meeting the ground, installation including video projections and participatory video, performance and sculptural elements. Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC
1999 Dwelling, a site-specific installation including sculptural and video elements, room under the stairs Gallery, Montreal, Québec
1998 Markmakers, sculptural installation at the Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
1996 Woman Alive, sculptural installation, Maltwood Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
1993 Famine in the Heart, a sculptural installation, Vortex Gallery, Fulford Harbour, BC
1989 New Work ’89, sculptural work, Arts Alliance Gallery, Courtenay, BC
1988 Trialogue, a sculptural installation, The Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 by a Thread, Comox Valley Art Gallery. Inspired by The Thread Project (Michael Helwig 2001)
1996 Pacific Northwest Women Sculptors Invitational Anacortes, Washington.
1995 Graven Image – Collaborations, an installation reflecting the connection between architecture and sculpture, curator Martin Segger, Maltwood Gallery, Univ. of Victoria
1995 Blueprint, Hammer & Saw, Royal Victoria Museum, Victoria, B.C.
1995 Northwest Stone Sculptors, Lake Cowichan, B.C
1994 Contemporary Being Arts Alliance Gallery, Courtenay, B.C.
1994 Art in Unlikely Places, an artist-initiated public art project, O.K. Tire, Courtenay, BC
1991 Internationalen Hollzbildhauerwoche, juried commissioned public sculpture, Brienz, Switzerland
1990 We All Live Here, curated, Arts Alliance Gallery, Courtenay, BC
1989 Carmanah – Inspirations of an Ancient Rainforest, Vancouver, Victoria, Duncan, Qualicum, Courtenay
1989 Fear of Others: In Search of Tolerance – Art Against Racism, curator Claudine Pommier, The Roundhouse, Vancouver BC, additionally selected for travelling exhibition: Canada and USA
1989 conversation walls: George Sawchuk, Sue Schaeffer, Will Julsing, Michael Dennis, Nita Wood, at the Julsing Orchard, Duncan BC
1988 Fear of Others – Art Against Racism, curator Claudine Pommier, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC
1984 14 Island Artists, curator Annette Hurtig, Pitt International Galleries, Vancouver, BC
1984 Beyond the Malahat, curators Annette Hurtig, Tutti Casano, Michael Harding, Open Space Gallery
Selected single channel video:
ancestral intersections, 2005. 01:20 DVD. Stop frame animation. One Minute Film Festival, Toronto.
endangered species, 2002, 02:36 VHS. International Festival of Film on Art in Montreal, 2003. Play: muestra internacional de videoarte at the Museo de Arte “Angel Maria de Rosa”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
thirst, 2003, 01:30 VHS. animated drawings, video and original music. Awarded an Honourable Mention in Art and Design in Public Places Program, Edmonton, Alberta
Documentary video:
Owning the Slave, 2006. 32:00 DVD. A black man from Arkansas moves to a white town in BC to escape racism and find himself. Screened in festivals across Canada.
my father goes to sea, 2001, 26:00 VHS. While a daughter comes to terms with the family history, her father is preparing for his death. Screened at the Prenelle Gallery Film Festival 2002, London, England. Moving Images Distribution Society, Vancouver, BC
out of place. 2001. 12:00 VHS. Making of Dwelling, a site-specific installation at room under the stairs gallery in Montreal, responses of eight artists and writers to the meaning of ‘dwelling’. Distributed by Video Out Distribution, Vancouver, BC.
I HATE HOUSEWORK, 1999. 8:00 VHS. A comic self-portrait. Performed, filmed, edited by the artist.
Distributed by Video Out Distribution, Vancouver, BC
badtime story, 1993, 27:00 VHS. Eight women artists healing from childhood sexual abuse. Co-produced and co-directed with Arlene Mason. Moving Images Distribution Society, Vancouver, BC.
Sound
we rise we fall, 2016, 06:42. meeting the ground live performance
deconstruction, 2009, 3:00. presented at Canadian Institute of Sound Ecology, Gabriola Island, BC, 2009
migration – choreographer Helen Walkley, 2005, 15:00. Soundscape for dancer Robbyn Scott
Residencies
2016 Comox Valley Art Gallery preceding and during meeting the ground
1999 a room under the stairs Gallery, Montreal
1997 Est-Nord-Est Sculpture Centre 3-month residency, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec.
1991 Internationalen Hollzbildhauerwoche, sculptural project realized on site, Brienz, Switzerland.
Professional Activities
2018 Objets et Matières Marcelle Hudon, Montreal
2018 New England Puppet Intensive, Massachusetts
2016- Board member of the Comox Valley Art Gallery
2007 Board member of the Islands Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies.
2005-06 Board member CARFAC BC
Publications
2016 MEETING THE GROUND Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay BC. Angela Somerset curator, book design
1997 Mattoid 52/53: a journal of literary and cultural studies, Crossing Cultures issue. Photographs of Fears of the Future, Dreams of the Past installation. Edited by Jonathan Hart. Published by Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
1989 Carmanah: Artistic Visions Of An Ancient Rain Forest. Photo documentation of invitational sculpture accompanied by an artist statement and biographical text. Published by Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Vancouver, BC
1988 Gallerie Women’s Art Quarterly. Photo documentation of sculpture and process, with autobiographical essay. Editor Kaffyn Kelley. Published by Gallerie Publications, North Vancouver, BC
1971 artscanada, west coast artists: life styles issue, “Our Beautiful West Coast Thing,” Photo documentation of sculpture at Long Beach, Gary Lee-Nova.
1971 the sand catalogue, an anthology of contemporary art from Ucluelet to Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island, book designer, editor.
Awards:
2003 Canada Council Media Arts Production Grant
2000 Canada Council Media Arts Production Grant
1999 B.C. Arts Council Visual Arts Project Grant
1997 B.C. Arts Council Visual Arts project Grant