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Off Again …
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Off Again …
Just about to leave for Vancouver for the CARFAC National Conference and AGM! Looking forward to seeing my colleagues from right across the country, and sharing ideas and practical tools to assist artists. I am particularly happy that there will be a panel on Indigenous Intellectual & Cultura...
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A Talk September 14th
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A Talk September 14th
Now that the dust has settled from the Opening of Boundary|time|Surface, I am happy to say that Dr. John Waldron and I will be presenting a talk on the project, and the ideas behind our collaboration! This Saturday, September 14, at 2pm – if you’re in the area, please join u...
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Just a Few More hours …
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Just a Few More hours …
Well. Here we are – a few hours from the opening reception to Boundary|Time|Surface. This still point in the process always feels a little surreal. So much goes into the making of an exhibition. In this case, 5 years from the original project to now; at least a solid year of resea...
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Countdown begins … Today
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Countdown begins … Today
It’s officially one week from today that Boundary|Time|Surface opens at the Art Gallery of St. Albert! Not quite sure how the time flew by so fast (well, actually yes, I am – in the studio!) – but regardless – I find there’s always a sense of time speeding ...
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Another New Thing …
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There’s more to the upcoming exhibition of Boundary|Time|Surface – another labour of love attached to the work that I will be launching into the world on September 5th. To accompany the exhibition, we will be launching a limited-edition book! Boundary|Time|Surface ...
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New things coming …
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It’s been a head-down, get-things-done time for several months now. Board work, projects in various stages of development requiring attention, travel,  … and soon, an exhibition of work. I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to return to the Boundary|Time|Surface project...
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Animated Land
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Animated Land
SO happy I came across this lovely work by Paul Johnson. I’m really entranced by these little moments. Landthropologic, Earthworks In Motion from Paul Johnson on Vimeo. Enjoy. And check out Paul Johnson !
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Musicworks and Macromareal
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Musicworks and Macromareal
It’s been head down and ‘getter done’ lately on a number of fronts, and so writing her has fallen by the wayside for a while. In any case, in the midst of getting various jobs finished in the studio and elsewhere, I received a lovely thing in the mail: It’s always a bit of...
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Slippages in Cleveland
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Slippages in Cleveland
Happy to say that the video work I did in collaboration with Deborah Carruthers – Slippages & Panelled/Slippages – is in a Group Exhibition at Zygote Gallery in Cleveland OH. Capturing the Aura of the Already Said, curated by Margaret Hart, is on exhibition until April 26th. An Ex...
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Macromareal (redux) – some images
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Macromareal (redux) – some images
After a whirlwind – and lovely – trip to Vancouver to install Macromareal(redux) at ECUAD, Scott and I are back in Edmonton and digging into all the other work we have to do. Part of that for me has been editing the first batch of documentation from this exhibition, so I can share it ...
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