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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

            http://www.comoxvalleyartgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/mp/files/publications/files/meeting-the-ground-publication.v1.pdf

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