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Current Exhibitions:
September 17 – October 19 2024
Power or Glory
The Prairie Crocus, Stride Gallery,
hosted at Alcove Centre for the Arts
244 7th Ave SW Calgary AB
Two new paintings and a sculpture. Connections are used between Dutch golden era banquet pieces, pre-revolutionary French court paintings, and religious and political art to explore a story of power, glory and diet culture.
October 8 – November 30 2024
Body and Mind
Opening Reception 5:30 – 7:30 pm Friday November 1 2024
Kiwanis Gallery, Red Deer Public Library
4818 49th Street, Red Deer AB
Come see the first public viewing 5 of the paintings from the 10 still life paintings in places series (created with the support of Calgary Arts Development), along with the still life dramas Set in Stone and Sisyphus Motivation.
Current Project:
Earthly Delights: Lost in The Garden
With support from the Canada Council for the Arts, I will be working on Earthly Delights – Lost In the Garden through the rest of 2023. This project will explore themes from health and diet culture in a contemporary reinterpretation of Hieronymous Bosch’s 16th century epic masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights. Have an opinion you want to share on health and diet culture today? Get in touch with me!
Current Art:
Earthly Delights: 10 Still Life Paintings in Places
With support from Calgary Arts Development Association and The City of Calgary, I completed a series of paintings exploring health and diet culture through contemporary still life painting in the larger environment. What does that mean exactly? I’ve set up an Earthly Delights Gallery page for the project: In addition I will be releasing a series of in depth blog posts about the process and ideas behind each of the paintings. I’ll share compilations of those blog posts in my quarterly newsletter so signing up for that will help you catch them all . Want to see the finished work exhibited in your venue or community? Get in touch with me!
Past Exhibitions (Viewable Online):
2021
Medium of Exchange Process - Virtual Exhibition:
Covid-19’s silver lining to staging shows in venues closed to the public waaaay back in the spring of 2021? The necessity to develop virtual exhibitions: Visit the gallery page to see the rest of the paintings in this project. Follow the links to the virtual exhibition and closing reception recording, which are still available to view online.
2022
Moving Pictures / Kitchen Feminism Covid-19 Storytelling Project Gallery:
I invite you to learn more about this project documenting the experiences of individual women (including yours truly) living through the Covid-19 pandemic. Produced by Dawn van de Shoot and photographed by Shannon Smith, this collaborative story telling project has created some truly memorable images and I was honoured to participate. You can see the Kitchen Feminism gallery live here and read more about my contribution, Not Enough Cubicles Here, on my blog.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
November 2025 – January 2026
Earthly Delights
Art Gallery of St. Albert 19 Perron Street, St. Albert, AB
Details to come.
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