INSTALLATION
Shelter Embroidery Thread 2021 Site specific installation at Spare Room Gallery, Barrie, ON
Shelter 1 uses cotton crochet thread and dynamic tension to reconsider the architecture of Spare Room Gallery. As a site-specific sculpture, this piece asks viewers to adapt how they move under and through the space while briefly experiencing a “roof” for protection. Referencing domesticity, pandemic isolation, and needs of protection post-pandemic while re-orienting in public spaces, Shelter 1 gives attention to the boundaries of space and how we move through them.
Corner Cotton Thread, metal 2023 Site specific installation at The Campus Gallery, Barrie, ON
Within/Without the Frame Cotton Thread, repurposed nails and concrete blocks 2026 Quest Art School and Gallery, Midland, ON
This site-specific fibre installation encourages engagement with the gallery environment and architecture. By investigating the concept of the frame, this sculpture offers a reconsideration of physical space and invites reflection on the subtle contextual boundaries between the viewer, the view, and that which is outside of the frame.
All Under One Roof embroidery thread, 2020, site specific installation at be contemporary Gallery 2020
Installation with Embroidery Thread, 2020, Bohemia, Barrie, ON
Reminders exhibit at The Campus Gallery, Georgian College, Barrie, ON January, 2019
Installation Reminders
Collected for over two decades, thousands of handwritten lists consider the performance of list writing, collecting, goal setting, and the satisfaction of completing daily tasks/feeling useful. This series observes a transformation of the discarded into ephemera and art. Here, the lists shift from their original purposes – which capture the mundane, acts of the privileged, actions that prepare and maintain the important moments and habits of lives – into reminders of that time, long ago.
Without specific reference to exactly when each list was made, “Reminders” reflects on archaic modes of communication marked with line. Collaborators who are all women, include their lists alongside mine in this large scale, wall installation. Affixed to the wall with two pins, the lists become sculptural, textural, and in various stages of stain and decay. This installation considers and visually reads as an enormous weight of fragile papers- the mountain of how we fill our days and the accumulation of time.
