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45th Insights Arts Exhibition

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Our Arboretum

I spent the summer of 2024 interviewing people from the community of Guelph about their connections to The Arboretum at the University of Guelph, (as well as being eaten alive by mosquitoes shooting b-roll and drone footage – it was a humid and damp summer!); and the first of the video outputs is now online! “Our Arboretum” highlights the community’s perspective on what The Arboretum means to…

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September Exhibitions

I am excited to share that I will be exhibiting my works in two gallery spaces this September – Si(gh)t[e] Lines in Gallery 44’s Production Gallery (for members), and The Landscape Is Dead at Wyndham Arts 3rd Floor Gallery (with Anna Gaby-Trotz). Si(gh)t[e] Lines is a group exhibition of photographs by artists Peggy Taylor Reid, Richelle Forsey, Carolyn Cheng, and Ariyo. Along the wall of the…

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PhotoEd's Winter Edition has landed!

I am thrilled to to share that my drone photography exploring human activity on the landscape is featured on the cover AND inside the latest issue of PhotoEd Magazine – Winter 2023/24 The LAND Issue. The images are from my recent works developing Desire Lines that examines human activity and our impacts on the land at the intersection of the sublime landscape and the urban/built environment –…

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How to Draw a Tree Part 2

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Art in the Trees

Photographs from my body of film-based works: urban remains - feral interiors are publicly installed at Gallery Stratford - Art in the trees until April 2, 2023.

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How to Draw a Tree

How to Draw a Tree

The website I have created for Dawn Matheson’s sound walk How to Draw a Tree on mental health and trees in The Arboretum, University of Guelph will officially be live this Saturday, September 10!Join us at The Arb on Sept. 10, at 1pm to learn about the project and the next iteration HOW TO DRAW A FOREST, followed by a Tree Planting 🌲🌱🌳 at UofG’s new Mental Wellness Tree Circle.The Arboretum is…

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Cyanotypes

Cyanotypes is a limited edition release out on Whitelabrecs of music by Fossil Hunting Collective.

Cyanotypes, the latest magical soundscape offering from my partner Jamie Jones aka Fossil Hunting Collective will be released next week on Whitelabrecs!I had the privilege of creating custom cyanotypes for the album art. The track titles for the album are all influenced by bee related terminology and some carry double meanings which influenced the experimental direction of my abstract…

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How to Remember for the Future

How to Remember for the Future

I am excited to share that I am one of nine artists in the Humber Galleries CONTACT Photography Festival college-wide exhibition takeover How to Remember for the Future. The exhibition asked artists from the Humber College and University of Guelph-Humber community to explore the documentation of unexpected experiences that affect memories of a certain time and place. Curated by Diane Pellicone…

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Spectra 2022

Spectra 2022 Poster It’s almost time for Spectra – the group exhibition during the CONTACT Photography Festival by Gallery 44 Members. Spectra, a changing collective of members, has been an active participant in CONTACT since its inception. As the name suggests the work demonstrates the many possibilities that are open to contemporary photographers and celebrates the diversity of artistic…

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Why the fuck not

Why the fuck not

turning abandoned space into a public placeMay Day 2022Charlotte St & Adelaide Street W, Toronto, ONfeaturing photographers:@richelle4c@pokornyatia@[email protected]@daniellegoshay@jumblefacetoAn uncomissioned, group exhibition disorganized by PastePlatzer

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Spectra 2 Opens Sept 15!

Spectra 2 Opens Sept 15!

I am excited to share that the group exhibition Spectra 2: Visible and Invisible Cities, I have been co-coordinating since 2019 with members of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in conjunction with the Scotiabank CONTACT 2021 Photography Festival is finally going to open!Spectra 2 is a group exhibition by members of Gallery 44 who have a spirit of community and a passion for…

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Coming soon, IF 2021!

Coming soon, IF 2021!

What are you doing on August 13 and 14, 2021? Save the dates and pop over to improvfest.ca for some or all 24-hours of streaming improvisational arts by 150+ artists from all over the world (including me!) A version of my film In Plain View – an assemblage of experimental and filtered drone video of a clear cut agro-forest with a sound track composed improvisationally while scraping and rubbing…

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Paintings of a yesteryear

Paintings of a yesteryear

The long awaited full length follow-up to (Ph)authers self-titled release is almost here and I am thrilled that a commissioned work from my artifacts series graces the cover of ‘Paintings of a Yesteryear‘. (Ph)authers is the sonic duo of Guelph artists Fossil Hunting Collective and Hymns57. “Both artists boast a hefty sonic tapestry in their own right but when combined as (Ph)authers, the sum of…

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Temporary Collection

I am so thrilled to share that I have been included in Ed Video’s art project Temporary Collection that aims to financially support artists by promoting, exhibiting and distributing their work! I am honoured to be in such talented company. The project is essentially an experiment in art capitalism. Ed Video has purchased over 150 pieces of work by nearly 70 artists for Temporary Collection, and…

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Mail Art: unlimited Dada

Mail Art: unlimited Dada

Mail Art: unlimited Dada promo card I have always loved sending “things” in the mail to people and was thrilled to be able to mail in two works to the Mail Art: unlimited Dada open call at Propeller Gallery in Toronto, ON. It was meant to be an in-person show (how marvelous would that be to see!), but a second lockdown in the province put an end to those plans. The online opening was yesterday…

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artful nude - making images with photographic means. I started these typewriter pieces sometime in March - I typed images I could make onto sheet film and then tucked the sheets away to develop later (and forgot about them!) This is the first - aleatory in process, chemically treated and frozen so the thawing and developing on the scanner bed (as it is exposed) is captured… or simply - making images with photographic means.