Weaving, 2021
Material and Process Development
The weaving journey continues
Weaving, 2020
Material and Process Development
In 2020 I began a dedicated endeavour to learn how to weave
Between Stories: The Agency of Story and Living Ways, 2018–2019
MFA Criticism and Curatorial Practice Thesis Project
A thesis project involving collaboration with an Icelandic Vernacular Culture Farmer
Material Redistribution, 2018
Printmaking Project and Residency
Salvaged bricks become a pigments for printmaking
SPIN, 2017
Integrated Public Art Installation
Five gestural rings appear and disappear for visitors at TTC’s Downsview Park Station
Building Colour, 2017
Public Art Installation
Public artwork for Mississauga’s MiWay Bus Route
Two equal Volumes (Series 2), 2016–2017
Drawing Sculptures
More experiments with the equal volumes of drawing material
Two Equal Volumes (Series 1), 2016
Drawing Sculptures
Experiments with the equal volumes of drawing material
Rawhide Works, 2016
Ancestral Activations and Inactivations
Raw deer hide is stretched and stitched over family heirlooms
Drawing Sculptures, 2015–2016
Works on and with Paper
Drawings with graphite while folding paper and unfolding the paper
Felted Garments, 2015–2016
Wearable Works
Wet felted garments that pay homage to inspiring places and people
Wet Felting, 2013–2016
Material Exploration
Material Exploration of wet felting for garment production
Lost in the Wood, 2014
Performative Installation
A sculptural trompe-l’œil becomes an intimate dining space for six people
Old Ideas, 2014
Installation
Fifteen years of artistic inspirations and circuitous makings are culled and collected
Toronto: Scene and Unseen, 2011
Public Art Proposal
Wooden utility poles wrapped with reflective signage material construct a playful and interactive marker for the Toronto/Markham border
Fibonacci Feedback, 2011
Public Art Commission
Stretching the length of a high school athletic field, Fibonacci Feedback is a visual articulation of a pattern of movement
Generations, 2010
Public Art Commisssion
Portraits of a grandmother and her granddaughter are linked by a series of transforming links generated by a childhood toy and suggestive of DNA helixes
Meeting, 2010
Public Art Commission
Iconographic stripes and concentric circles, suggestive of both ancient symbols and contemporary wayfinding systems, overlap above a transit shelter
Vagabond Vitrine, 2010
Interactive Street Level Installation
A modernist display case, having wandered the streets, finds temporary solace in a storefront window containing elements of a nature diorama
Bubble, 2009
Interactive Installation and Performance Structure
A bicycle generator powers an inflatable bubble and its studio contents which are occupied by the artist and her visitors working in collaboration
Sweetspot, 2008
Public Art Proposal
Parabolic and reflective structures provide a performative sound playground for high school students
Fröbel House, 2008
Research and Development
Fröbel textbook illustration of ‘house’ is sewn into a tetra-pak substrate
Chio TV Party, 2008
Research and Development
A child’s lego ‘party’ is embroidered in tetra-pak material as a contemporary take on Fröbel’s Second Occupation ‘Sewing-Out’
Chio Book, 2008
Research and Development
An illustrated assembly manual for the Lego character “Chio,” designed by the artist’s daughter, is disguised as a found piece of historical ephemera
The Second Occupation, 2007
Project
The exercises of Fröbel’s Second Occupation ‘Sewing-Out’ are assembled in an archival format, disguised as a collection of found historical ephemera
Fröbel Inspired Books, 2007
Research and Development
Old books are used to carry out the exercises of Fröbel’s First Occupation ‘Perforating’ and staged as historical ephemera
The Occupational Travel Kit, 2007
Tool
A traveling studio kit which facilitates the production of Fröbel works of ‘Perforating’ and ‘Sewing-Out’
The Terrarium Project, 2006
Collaborative Exhibition
The aesthetics of factual authority and the worlds of wonder-filled storytellers are meshed in a project about a fictitious institution and its unlikely collections
The First Occupation, 2005
Installation
A screen perforated with a galaxy of Disney princesses and Digimon characters is illuminated with a homespun bathtub drain video loop, reminiscent of the night sky
Occupations of an Unknown Kindergartner, 2005
Installation
A display case which stages reference materials, tools and fabricated ephemera related to the studies of an imagined teacher of Fröbel’s kindergarten program
Manchester Letherium, 2005
Collaborative Proposal
The design of a repository for unwanted collections takes shape as a sunken labyrinth of crystalline display cases and a neighbouring disposal tower
Jetstream, 2005
Public Art Proposal
Byproducts of a local aerospace manufacturing facility are sculpturally re-engaged in a busy urban parkette
The Jack Pine Remembered, 2003
Public Art Commission
The pixilated structure acts as a metaphor for the way we build and interpret infinite pieces of information into memories, fading and revealing
Four men whom I never met…, 2003
Installation
Portraits of four ancestors reflect on the mechanism of reproduction and the site of the mother’s body as a place which has been occupied by the DNA of strangers
From Here Right Now, 2002
Public Art Commission
24 anamorphic images in a Toronto subway shift from abstract shapes to ones that appear to hover in space, lending the illusion of sculptural form
The Visitor, 1998-2000
Series of Sculptural Works
Found containers act as sites for custom built compartmentalized interiors which take on surprising characteristics
First Snow, Tokyo, 1999
Site-specific Installation
An artist’s shack, displayed as an historic site, is visited by the elements of nature once revered and depicted by the artist himself
First Snow, 1998
Site-specific Installation
As gallery crews work to install a new exhibition snow begins to fall, transforming the utilitarian contents and the space itself into sculpture
The Silence and the Storm, 1998
Installation
Painted panels, based on reproductions from a book, are mounted over the pages themselves in a testimony to the objecthood of the original paintings
Northern Night, 1996
Public Art Commission
The solace of a beautiful northern night and the companionship of friends and song, an escape for those who can no longer access this experience
Central Neighbourhood House, 1995
Donor Recognition Artwork
The collective pattern of a community of contributors; variety, colour, a myriad of individuals
Captured & Escaped, 1995
Site-specific Installation
While ‘native’ wildflowers have been captured in the confines of this historic military fort, the ‘alien’ wildfowers have escaped and are running down the embankment…
At This Point, 1995
Commissioned by the Toronto Sculpture Garden
A buried urban waterway is glimpsed through the reconstruction of an historic lighthouse and buoy
Covenant House, 1994
Commission
The gap between the real and the represented is explored as things that are seen as ungraspable and seductive become manifested in real time and space
Like Ancient Pots…, 1993
Installation
Here we are literally and figuratively ‘submerged’ between realities produced by language and images…
Re Appearances, 1993
Installation
Seven Paraskeva Clark paintings are placed alongside objects they depict in a reconstruction of her living room as the power of objects and their painted representations are considered
The Nature of Giving, 1992
Donor Recognition Artwork
The solace of nature and the beauty of the handmade offer escape to those who must remain indoors during a time of illness
Punti di Vista, 1992
Installation
Plaster casts of architectural elements present in the exhibition space replace their photographic depictions in catalogues, honouring the physicality of experience
Aqueduct, 1992
Installation
The truncated hallway of a 12th Century building in Spoleto, Italy, plays host to kinetic light patterns, referencing the town’s famous aqueduct
Patterns of Commitment, 1991
installation
A wrestling with the seduction of photography, our voyeuristic desire to look and our inability to really know
Collectors (Michael C. Rockefeller), 1990
Installation
Collections, at times, have become representations as much of their compilers as of their original creators
Decalog, 1990
Anniversary Exhibition
The 10-year history of an artist-run centre as viewed through the documents in its archive; gaps, misinterpretations and inaccuracies undoubtedly resulting
Research & Discovery, 1988
Installation
Objects depicted in National Geographic Magazine are meticulously fabricated and placed alongside their images in an attempt to bridge the gap