The undercurrent of my work explores the alternating identities of science and faith. Both concepts weigh heavily and the dichotomy of discovering one at the expense the other leaves me incomplete. Exploring the digitally coded nature of DNA by analogy, many pieces manipulate the digital information systems of a computer. Moreover, just as DNA molecules produce a unique individual, each work re-uses or re-combines segments and symbols of other paintings or imagery, yet culminates in a separate and distinct painting, adding collage, paint, or sculptural aspects and discovered objects, just as the individual is marked by experience on her way to identity. Questions of faith, destiny and choice are recorded in text, and metaphoric figures and themes. In the end, family members, stories, personal experience, confessional journal entries, and scientific methodology, are juxtaposed bringing these diverse elements together in a finished work that evokes a strange and volatile whole.
Artist's Statement
Exhibitions
2011 Visual Elements, Woodstock Public Art Gallery, Woodstock, ON
Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Art In the Village, Wortley Village, London
EpigeneticsEh!, commissioned group, Epigenetics Conference, London
Information System, Solo Exhibition, Campbell River Art Gallery, British Columbia
2010 Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Group Juried Exhibition, The Art Exchange, London
2009 Group Juried Exhibition, The Art Exchange, London
2007 The Fringe Festival, The Arts Project, London
2006 The Fringe Festival, The Arts Project, London
2005 The Fringe Festival, The Arts Project, London
Tsunami Relief Auction, The Arts Project, London
2004 CGAT, Solo Exhibition The Art Exchange, London
Group Juried Exhibition, The Art Exchange, London
Art in the Heart of London, Juried Exhibition St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
Toronto Outdoor Exhibit, Juried Exhibition Nathan Philips Square, Toronto
Art In the Village, Wortley Village, London
Group Show, Juried Exhibition Artistix, London
2003 Art in the Heart of London, Juried Exhibition St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
2002 London Artist’s Studio Tour, Juried Exhibition London
2001 Galleries at the Galleria, Juried Exhibition Galleria, London
1998 Woman’s Wisdom, Juried Exhibition, Impact Gallery, Buffalo
Society of Canadian Artists, Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
1996 Artist’s Collective, Busker Fest Show, London
1995 Group Juried Show, Perry House Galleries, Alexandria, Virginia
1994 London Art Mart, London Regional Art and Historical Museum, London
London New Arts Festival, Juried Exhibition, London
Toronto Outdoor Exhibit, Juried Exhibition, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto
Gibson Gallery, Summer Series, Gibson Gallery, London
Society of Canadian Artists “Energy ‘94”, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, Missouri
1993 Thirteenth Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Centre of Newcastle, Bowmanville
Gibson Gallery, Summer Series, Gibson Gallery, London
Look ‘93, Gallery Lambton Juried Exhibition, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia
1992 Twelfth Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Centre of Newcastle, Bowmanville
Open Doors ’92, Juried Exhibition, St. Thomas Centre of Contemporary Art, St. Thomas
London Regional Gallery’s 45th Juried Exhibition, London Regional Art Gallery
Education
University of Western Ontario, London, 1990-1993, Fine Art Program
Fanshawe College, London, 1984-1987, Advertising Art Program
Grants/Awards
Community Arts Investment Program grant from London Arts Council, City of London, 2011, Project funding
EpigeneticsEh! selected artist participant, London Arts Council/City of London, selected to create work for Epigenetics Conference May 2011.
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance for “Information System 2011.
Collections
City of London, EpigenticsEh! artwork
The Centre for Applied Genomics at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto
Publications
London Community News, Epigenetic Art on The Wall, June 17, 2011
Epigenetics Eh!, Conference Proceedings, abstract and biography, May 2011
BC Local news, Passive Aggressive Work on Display, April 19, 2011
Artscape, June 2007
London Free Press, August 6, 2006
London Free Press 1994
Greater Midwest International Exhibit, 1994, catalog essay
Membership CARFAC
