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Event in Room: ARTSPLACE Main Gallery
Embedded Histories
April Hickox, Jennifer Long, Carrie Allison, Anna Heywood-Jones
Ursula Handleigh (Cur.)
ARTSPLACE Main Gallery: April 5 - May 25
Opening Reception: April 5, 12-2pm
Artist Talk: April 5, 1pm
Embedded Histories is a group exhibition, curated by Ursula Handleigh, of four women across Canada expressing acts of care through the medium of flora.
Through interventions by the artists, individually and collectively, spaces of fractured gesture are built as they reflect on histories embedded within material and process.
The intersection of flora and the hand takes center across all works: interventions of arrangement (April Hickox), mending (Jennifer Long), traditional beading (Carrie Allison) and imprinting (Anna Heywood-Jones).
Exploring their connections to place, memory and loss; the works from these four artists create a dialogue with one another about the complex identities of care while offering multiple entry points for gallery visitors.
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Ursula Handleigh is a Tkaronto Scarborough-born artist and educator of Filipinx/a/o mixed-ancestry working within expanded photography, moving image and alternative processes of image making. While challenging traditional methods of documentation, Handleigh's practice explores questions of identity and how the role of memory, ancestral knowledge and storytelling can be used to reconstruct archives and preserve histories. Handleigh holds an MFA from NSCAD University and a BFA from OCAD University. Handleigh has received grants from SSHRC and Canada Council and has participated in numerous residencies and exhibited throughout Canada and internationally including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Harbourfront Centre and Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier21. Handleigh is currently an Assistant Professor at OCAD University.
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Carrie Allison is a nêhiýaw, Métis, and mixed European descent interdisciplinary visual artist, mother, community organizer, and educator based in K’jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She grew up on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lōand Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Her maternal roots and relations are based in maskotewisipiy (High Prairie, Alberta), Treaty 8. Her artistic and social practice responds to her maternal nêhiýaw and Métis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss through critiquing colonialism, enacting Indigenous methodologies of making, and seeks to build upon knowledges and artistic genius of past Indigenous ancestors. She strives to build connections and equitable, sustainable, and accountable relationships through collaborating with others on social arts practices.
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April Hickox is a lens-based artist, teacher and independent curator who lives on the Toronto Islands. Over the course of 37 years, April has mined the distinctions between personal and public sites through film, video, photography and installation. Her work with objects and still life is rooted in narrative histories that individuals accumulate throughout their lives and the ability of inanimate objects to shape memory. April is an Associate Professor of Photography at the OCAD University in Toronto.
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Anna Heywood-Jones is a visual artist and educator based in the traditional, contemporary and unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations, colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. Her artistic practice is focused on building regional lexicons of colour and exploring the complex relationship between human and botanical spheres. Through her work, Heywood-Jones strives to convey notions of slow loss and transformation, examining the metamorphic nature of human and vegetal expressions of existence. Anna holds an MFA from NSCAD University, a BFA from Emily Carr University and a diploma in Fibre Arts from Kootenay School of the Arts.
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Jennifer Long is an artist, curator, and arts administrator based in Tkaronto (Toronto). Through a Feminist lens, she works with constructed narratives that are inspired by the quiet moments in women’s lives where seemingly nothing (and everything) occurs. Long is especially interested in the complex emotions that underlie these mundane points in time. Themes of vulnerability, growth, community, and motherhood are explored as she examines daily life and rituals within it. Long is a founding member and co-director of Feminist Photography Network.
admin@arcac.ca
902.532.7069
Event in Room: ARTSPLACE Main Gallery
Embedded Histories
April Hickox, Jennifer Long, Carrie Allison, Anna Heywood-Jones
Ursula Handleigh (Cur.)
ARTSPLACE Main Gallery: April 5 - May 25
Opening Reception: April 5, 12-2pm
Artist Talk: April 5, 1pm
Embedded Histories is a group exhibition, curated by Ursula Handleigh, of four women across Canada expressing acts of care through the medium of flora.
Through interventions by the artists, individually and collectively, spaces of fractured gesture are built as they reflect on histories embedded within material and process.
The intersection of flora and the hand takes center across all works: interventions of arrangement (April Hickox), mending (Jennifer Long), traditional beading (Carrie Allison) and imprinting (Anna Heywood-Jones).
Exploring their connections to place, memory and loss; the works from these four artists create a dialogue with one another about the complex identities of care while offering multiple entry points for gallery visitors.
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Ursula Handleigh is a Tkaronto Scarborough-born artist and educator of Filipinx/a/o mixed-ancestry working within expanded photography, moving image and alternative processes of image making. While challenging traditional methods of documentation, Handleigh's practice explores questions of identity and how the role of memory, ancestral knowledge and storytelling can be used to reconstruct archives and preserve histories. Handleigh holds an MFA from NSCAD University and a BFA from OCAD University. Handleigh has received grants from SSHRC and Canada Council and has participated in numerous residencies and exhibited throughout Canada and internationally including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Harbourfront Centre and Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier21. Handleigh is currently an Assistant Professor at OCAD University.
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Carrie Allison is a nêhiýaw, Métis, and mixed European descent interdisciplinary visual artist, mother, community organizer, and educator based in K’jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She grew up on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lōand Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Her maternal roots and relations are based in maskotewisipiy (High Prairie, Alberta), Treaty 8. Her artistic and social practice responds to her maternal nêhiýaw and Métis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss through critiquing colonialism, enacting Indigenous methodologies of making, and seeks to build upon knowledges and artistic genius of past Indigenous ancestors. She strives to build connections and equitable, sustainable, and accountable relationships through collaborating with others on social arts practices.
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April Hickox is a lens-based artist, teacher and independent curator who lives on the Toronto Islands. Over the course of 37 years, April has mined the distinctions between personal and public sites through film, video, photography and installation. Her work with objects and still life is rooted in narrative histories that individuals accumulate throughout their lives and the ability of inanimate objects to shape memory. April is an Associate Professor of Photography at the OCAD University in Toronto.
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Anna Heywood-Jones is a visual artist and educator based in the traditional, contemporary and unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations, colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. Her artistic practice is focused on building regional lexicons of colour and exploring the complex relationship between human and botanical spheres. Through her work, Heywood-Jones strives to convey notions of slow loss and transformation, examining the metamorphic nature of human and vegetal expressions of existence. Anna holds an MFA from NSCAD University, a BFA from Emily Carr University and a diploma in Fibre Arts from Kootenay School of the Arts.
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Jennifer Long is an artist, curator, and arts administrator based in Tkaronto (Toronto). Through a Feminist lens, she works with constructed narratives that are inspired by the quiet moments in women’s lives where seemingly nothing (and everything) occurs. Long is especially interested in the complex emotions that underlie these mundane points in time. Themes of vulnerability, growth, community, and motherhood are explored as she examines daily life and rituals within it. Long is a founding member and co-director of Feminist Photography Network.
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