29 April – 22 July 2025
GVPL Emily Carr Branch
3521 Blanshard St #101, Victoria, BC
MTWFS 10am-6pm / Th 10am-7pm
About the Artist and Work:
As an artist I like to explore all mediums, but I focus predominantly on painting and photography. Being a lesbian artist I really struggled making artwork that represented my experience but at the same time didn’t exploit it. In the last 5 years my style completely shifted to abstract as I fell in love with the way I could capture senses beyond sight, like touch and sound.
Domestic versus public spaces have always fascinated me. They are a large theme in my work and the bed sheets that I paint on reflect that. All the sheets I work with are reclaimed. Upcycling sheets not only reduces my environmental footprint, it also is an avenue to introduce traces of humanity to my work – these sheets have been lived in. Though my works express incredibly vulnerable motifs, like my mine and my partner’s shared bed, I have stripped them down to the only parts that truly matter to be explored to me. I am always aware of two audiences for work; people who will relate to my experience and people who I am trying to explain it to, and this plays a large role in how I create. The works I have on display today are greatly influenced by Tammy Rae Carland, Tracy Emin, Laura Mulvey, and Helen Frankenthaler.
