Statement
What and who we are today is the reflected, accumulated, and re-reflected summation of our experiences. The art that I make is not only a recapitulative outpouring of my own past; it is also a retelling and revision of it. I like to work as a persona, as someone who doesn’t necessarily belong in this time, but with materials that are of this time. The material itself, being not universally malleable, helps me in my interpretations by influencing the final form of the work.
My grandmother was a devout Anglican, and I remember I went to church with her every Sunday as far back as I can remember what Sunday was. Without realizing it, each week I was exposed to an aesthetic regime within four circumscribed walls, watching and participating in verbal, visual, and physical ceremonies that formed a narrative both hermetic and hermeneutic. As I grew older, I stopped going every week, and I began to realize that a lot had been omitted from the story as too complicated, too frightening, too ambiguous – too Manichean.
My art is what got left off the walls of the church of my childhood, and so I’m redecorating.
Exhibitions
2009 Toyland of Milk and Honey, Solo Show, Dab Gallery, Victoria BC
2008 Light and Fluffy Group Show, Studio 16 1/2, Victoria BC
2008 Big Juicy Brushstrokes Etc. Group Show, View Art Gallery, Victoria BC
2008 Art3 A Sculpture Show, Studio 16 1/2, Victoria BC
2007 Christmas Show, The Farm Gallery, Saanichton BC
2007 Farewell Exhibition Celebrating 25 Years, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria BC
2006 Group Show, The Farm Gallery
2006 Show of New Works, The Farm Gallery
2005 Christmas Show, The Farm Gallery
2005 Group Show, The Farm Gallery
2004 Studio show at The Farm Gallery
2003 Studio show at The Farm Gallery
2001 The Lounge Collection Gallery, Ucluelet BC
2001 Dr. Vigari Gallery, Vancouver BC
2001 Raspberry Retreat, Vancouver BC
2001 The Gallery at Matticks Farm, Victoria BC
2001 May/June Issue of Boulevard Magazine, Victoria BC
1999 Christmas Show, Fran Willis Gallery
1998 Focus on the Figure, Fran Willis Gallery
1998 Artist for Aids, Fran Willis Gallery
1997 Contemporary Flora, Fran Willis Gallery
1997 Gothic Millennium, Potluck Gallery, Seattle WA
1997 Bra-Vo, Rogue Gallery, Victoria BC
1997 Apocrypha V, Fran Willis Gallery
1996 Open Space Gallery, Victoria BC
1995 Cement Plant Gallery, Mill Bay BC
1995 Nievaart Gallery, Sidney BC
1995 Mirari Inc, Victoria BC
1994 Christmas Exhibition, Barton Leier Gallery, Victoria BC
1994 The Essential Environment Juried Art Show, Sidney BC
1994 Dr. Vigari Gallery
1994 Provenance Gallery, Calgary AB
1994 Summer Show, Barton Leier Gallery
1994 The Premiere Urban Garden Exhibition, Barton Leier Gallery
1993 Bonaparte Gallery, Vancouver BC