At the start of the fall semester, an opportunity arose for ACAD’s print media students to exchange work with students at Zayed University in Dubai. We jumped at the chance to connect with a far-away institutions and to see what sort of prints are being made in the desert. The prints have arrived and we were treated to a lovely range of mostly dry points and linocuts. My contribution is below:
Dragging
Lisa Turner invited me to participate in a portfolio project for the upcoming SGC conference in San Francisco. There’s a stellar list of people involved and I’m looking forward to seeing what the likes of Mark Bovey, Beth Howe, Sean Caulfield (and many more) have made. My contribution is related to my new body of work about experiences with auto-immune illness. My work looks at the effects of the destruction of connections between nerve endings caused by the destruction of myelin.
Limbs Made Unfamiliar (18″ x 24″) silkscreen
As I make forays into my new The Body, Stranger series/project, I have created a new small etching (with drypoint and chine colle).
No Choice in What Remains (etching, drypoint and chine colle)
My work is up for sale at Pomp & Circumstance in Calgary. Stop by and check it out! I also have work available at Burnaby Art Gallery through their art rental and sales. Here’s an image of my work up in Pomp & Circumstance at an open house event that they had last week.
Work up in Pomp & Circumstance, Calgary
The portfolio that I organized after my trip to China for the Qijiang Printmaking Festival is currently being exhibited at the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts here in Calgary. They have a series of window galleries that feature small project works. Its been great to reconnect with some of the international artists that I met on this trip through this exhibition. If you hit up a play at the Centre in the next few months, be sure to take a look.
Some of my work will be in the next issue of The Hand magazine. They feature works by printmakers and photographers in an image-heavy publication. Its a young magazine and its nice to see one dedicated to works by printmakers (and photographers too!). Ultimate friendship mag for people who make multiples. You can subscribe or purchase the next issue by clicking on this link.
Art Rubicon is a great site that features news about visual arts in Alberta. Exhibitions, artists, and calls for submission are all featured on the site. They’ve put up a little blurb about me and some of my kinetic sculptural work. Check it out and add it to your lists if you are an Alberta-based artist!
I recently shipped my work to the Really Big Print Show at the Cheltenham Centre for the Arts. One of my large silkscreens will be getting all up in the business of some other giant prints and battling it out for print supremacy. Or probably just hanging out with other prints being all awesome. Opens September 15th!
Collapsed Distance
(silkscreen, 44″ x 30″)
I’ve begun working on some new pieces that examine my experiences living with MS and inflammatory arthritis. While I am lucky that my disease is so far on the mild end of the spectrum, it has nonetheless shaped me and brought me into contact with drugs and aspects of medical practice that are outside the experience of many people. I seek to bring my own adventures to light and examine them within the greater context of contemporary medicine. To start, I’ve created some small etchings that touch on the internally sensed aspect of my illnesses. Find new works under my The Body, Stranger page under the Artworks header.
Sensory Limitation (Etching and Chine Colle) 4 1/2″ x 3 3/4″
My work is on thePeople of Print website directory. The site is worth a visit as you can spend hours snooping through links to all kinds of artists and studios from fine art to commercial whose work relates to print in some way.
