LITTLE STINKER
A reflection of our compliance to climate change. Exhibition at Hartcourt House
STAGGER LEFT
his piece emerges from the intersection of my brother’s experience and my childhood fabrications; it interweaves film references and pop culture influences that were important to me growing up with a brother who left for the war when I was eight and recent stories that he has told me about his involvement with the United Nations and NATO scents 1994.
Stagger Left at the Art Gallery of Alberta Biennial
Record of Events
This exhibition is primarily focused on a critical engagement with issues surrounding the concept and constructs of an “Opening”. A Record of Events looks to generate a creative dialogue focused on the experience of an opening event from an artist’s perspective.
I often feel anxious when I go, I never attend the opening. I rented a limo and had my own party.
A BEER TENT FOR GIRLS
Beer Tent for Girls evokes the excitement of discovery – the discovery of forbidden spaces, the discovery of autonomy, and the discovery of youthful rebellion. Nickerson’s beer tent – handwoven with thick burlap twine and off-white and pink strips of fabric – hangs precariously from the ceiling and is held down temporarily by rocks collected from local gardens. A hidden drinking camp for women and girls, this musty beer tent beckons rebellion and gives the finger to the often stringently patrolled gender roles that position “good” girls in domestic settings
Ode to Cape Sable Island
For all the lost teeth on the wharf. When the starboard light flashes red the boy has a black eye and when the port light flashes green the boy has no black eye.
Songs for Sugar
Triggered by a motion centre this disgruntled chair would yell a mixture of phrases at the view, this was a collaboration with the Music department of the UofA.
BLAST OFF
I am drawn towards conflicts and uneasy topics conducive to the human population. I build skewed narratives with elements of fact and fiction that are based on poverty, substance abuse, mental illness and violence. I employ dark humour on my personal history to address morality and allusions that stem from destabilizing situations. This is my 2014 MFA exhibition.
Everyone Knew What Had to Happen
In 2010 I completed Everyone Knew What Had to Happen. This piece is an installation based around the systems and misanthropic behaviors of the characters that are engendered and encountered in the seedy underbelly of drinking establishments in Montreal and Halifax.
The Forest
In 2008 as artist in residence at NSCAD in the textile department, were I had the space to create my first large installation titled, The Forest. This work explored the hunted forest of my youth.
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