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RECLAIM: Artist Residency
I am once again working with the Victoria Arts Council during August! From the VAC website: "Reclaim focuses on the use of upcycling art and/or construction materials in the creation of new work for public spaces. During the course of the month-long program, Koh –an...
Current exhibit: Auricals
Auricals is now up at the Victoria Arts Council Pat Martin Bates Gallery until July 23rd, 2023. Thank you to everyone that came to the opening on June 9th and the artist talk on June 11th. On June 30th I will be speaking about Reverie for Creative Mornings in the...
Upcoming Exhibition
Part one of this work-in-progress is sculptures made from re-purposed found objects and shapes made using 3-D printing. Over the last few years I have been experiencing severe hearing loss due to otosclerosis. Initially a means to document and grieve this loss...
A Busy Summer
Two of my solar plate/chine colle prints were accepted into the Tompe2022. They are currently being exhibited in London, Ontario. There will also be an exhibition catalogue printed. For more info go to http://printlondon.ca/Amplification Tool, allows you to take in as...
Gestural Prompt
Gestural Prompt “At times the clay moves so effortlessly that my hands seem to follow, not to initiate, the movements of the clay. I notice an emotion in my hands that seems to connect them with my chest…” Harry Remde from The Art in a Craft, 1975 In the last few...
Precarious Circumstance
Precarious Circumstance is a tower of sad faces. Sadness is piling up on itself, until one is drowning in sorrow. The ‘sorrow’ face image was found in an old boy scout book of my brother's after he lost his battle with depression. The cloth legs are holding up the...
An installation in process
Throughout February, I will be progressively filling the arc.hive gallery with light, sound, plaster molds and altered angels, during an exploration of the space between what was and what’s next. I invite you to watch and participate in the installation until Feb...
My New Love of Ceramics
I have worked with clay on and off for many years. As I struggled with the dreaded wheel, I never thought of pottery as being a part of my art practice. This changed about a year ago when I discovered hand building and paper clay. At the same time I started getting...
Disposable Angels
As an incorrigible thrift store devotee, I recently started noticing the abundance of throw-away plaster angels which prompted me to build a collection. I am now incorporating them in my work by using them as an armature for my cast soap sculptures. The result is an...
I Wonder, the opening
The opening at Xchanges Gallery and Studios on Friday night was great! Many friends, artists, family and curious people came to see what I've been working on for the last year in my studio/lab. Eventually people started to realize that they were allowed to touch, peek...