"The Peace artwork was first inspired by a dream sequence that occurred nightly over a two-week period. Each night I entered into a dreamscape filled with peace and beauty: walking within a mysterious "forest" of hanging bells. After two weeks of this extraordinary nightly journey I knew" ...more
New Bell Installations in development
1) The Wave (soft participation) and 2) Tangle (full engagement) . Size is site specific ranging from 400 sq ft. to 2000 sq ft., including from 400-1500 hanging bells and video component
Photo and video credits: Many thanks for video and photo contribution by Guy Lavigueur. Additional photos taken by the artist.
The Forest, 2014, bells, string, pigment, hanging frames, video, size variable 400 to 1500 bells
The Forest, 2014, bells, string, pigment, hanging frames, video, size variable 400 to 1500 bells
Small Forest Walk, 2014, bells, strings, pigment, 24" x 24" x room height
Ring, 2014, wood, steel, gel print, 12" x 12" x 1"
Conflict includes social art projects created to bring awareness on the effects of War, Conflict, and Division (us and them), 2000 and continuing.
These works include the five ton Gun Sculpture (co created with Wallis Kendal) and numerous large and small works on victims/perpetrators of war and conflict around the world. ...more
Gun Sculpture, Installation, co created with Wallis Kendal, 2000, three components, a) deactivated weapons, steel, concrete, 5 ton, b) lumex, photography, text c) wall sized blackboard, chalk, variable size
Gun Sculpture, 2000, three components, detail, deactivated weapons, steel, 5 ton, variable size
Gun Sculpture, victims component, lumex, photography, size variable
Gun Sculpture, 2000, three components, blackboard documentation Korea
FIRE, 2010, Two part installation, AGA
Innocent installation: partial view, photography, light boxes, found objects, size variable
Innocent installation: partial view, photography, light boxes, found objects, size variable
Innocent installation: detail, photography, light boxes, found objects, size variable
Innocent installation: detail, photography, light boxes, found objects, size variable
FIRE, 2010, wood, found objects, photography, mixed media, video/sound, variable size (wood frame shown - wall one and three 9'10 x 8'2”, wall two and four 9'5” x 8'2”)
FIRE, 2010, detail, wood, found objects, photography, mixed media, video/sound, variable size (wood frame shown - wall one and three 9'10 x 8'2”, wall two and four 9'5” x 8'2”)
FIRE, 2010, detail, wood, found objects, photography, mixed media, video/sound, variable size (wood frame shown - wall one and three 9'10 x 8'2”, wall two and four 9'5” x 8'2”)
Mirror talk, 2012, 18" x 11" x 6" found objects, glass, light, photography, wood, acrylic paint
The Sculptures on this page provide a review of different series of work, including works influenced by travels (temples and Colossi in Egypt), by available material and by social interest.
Most of the wood is salvaged from Kew, Botantical Gardens in London UK. The artist lived in London from 1980 to 1993 and received over 30 tons of felled timber after two hurricane struck London
Public Art is shown below . Most recent is a Canada 150 artwork: Sentinel created with rock from every province and territory in Canada.
Check out Canada travel stories on where the rock came from for latest public artwork Sentinel
Muse, 1996, wood, found object, granite, pigment, acrylic matt medium, 46” x 48” x 32”
Astron, 1996, wood granite, pigment, 45” x 45” x 21”
Covenant, 1993, wood, found object, 83” x 80” x 34”
Domesticus, 1996, wood, granite, found objects, 38”x 79” x 31”
Celestial River II, 1996, wood, granite metal, found object, 41” x 79' x 34”
Stele V , 1994, wood, found object, acrylic matt medium, 24” x 8” x 70”
Stella II, 1994, 67” x 23” x 8” wood, acrylic pigment
Jacob's Ladder, 1986, wood, 88” x 30” x 26"
Hustle Bustle, 1985, wood, 66” x 44” x 46”
Revolution, 1985, wood, pigment, 49” x 94” x 22"
Gun Blue, 1985, wood, pigment, 68” x 71” x 38”
Pac Man, 1985, wood, 14” x 18” x 11"
Bequest, 2017, is a 50 year Time Capsule artwork commissioned by the City of St Albert. It was created using local field sandstone, elmwood and a custom designed stainless steel time capsule.
Its About Time, 2005, was commissioned by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) for the Alberta Centennial. It is located on the front, exterior wall of the AFA. It is composed of 100 non traditional portraits of Albertans. I photographed about 60% of the images, the rest came from personal and public archival material. The people represented in the artwork come from all parts of Alberta and are a visual diary of people that I knew, people that I met on the project and Albertans that I wished I had known.
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The Big Rock, 1995, is co-created with Catherine Burgess. The Big Rock is sited in an extremely urban and hard setting. One of its themes is "Natures survival against all odds". A pair of Canada geese now annually nest on the top of the sculpture, giving a beautiful reality to our original vision.
Catherine and I during installation, Rice Howard Way, Edmonton
The Forest, Bell Series
Innocent Installation, wood, photography, light boxes, found objects, 2003-2014
Innocent Installation
Innocent Installation detail
Celia,Mohammed,Kamara and Kadeer: wood, photography, video, found objects FIRE Series
Celia,Mohammed,Kamara and Kadeer, detail
Celia,Mohammed,Kamara and Kadeer
Celia,Mohammed,Kamara and Kadeer detail
The Elders (Colossi series), shown with dancers, four wooden sculptures
Lean to : acrylic mat medium, ground pigment, found object
Burial: found objects; FN rifles, 12' x 5' x 11' , 2000
Gun Sculpture, view of visitors blackboard component
2D and 3D works
The isolation of the pandemic created the need to adapt my engagement based art-making process to an intimate and private internal approach. The images in the square wood panels were curated from objects that were immediately accessible - in my house and studio, and found objects that I concealed in 300 yr old paper salvaged from a damaged 18 century book. The dialogue changed from myself and the gallery visitor to the relationship and dialogue by the objects in the artwork.
small works - wood, dyed string, pigment
Small Works, wood, found object, dyed string, ground pigment, matt medium
Ring - small 2d work, photography, mixed media, wood, steel, 12" x 12"
C 10 Series: , wood, paint, found objects, 2013, a series of small works in response to Canadian Parliament draconian Bill C 10
If Change, 2012, mixed media, cedar, 3 panels 23 ½ ” x 16” x ½ “
If Only, 2012, mixed media, cedar, 3 panels 23 ½ ” x 16” x ½ “
If Eternal, 2012, mixed media, cedar, 3 panels 23 ½ ” x 16” x ½ “
Multidisciplinary projects involve collaboration with dancers, choreographers, singers, musicians, film makers, visual artists and non-arts practitioners.
The photos are mainly from project based work trips outside of Canada - Sierra Leone, India and China. The Sierra Leone photos include young people introduced to the artist by her charity partner CAW (Children Affected by War) and were invited to be part of the projects narrative. The last photo is the original iHuman Youth group, (artist in red cap) in Edmonton AB, Canada. iHuman’s beating heart is an arts base open program for Edmontons most marginalized young people.
This page includes images of projects and exhibits conducted outside of Canada.
Sierra Leone and Cambodia associated work was done with the support of a full year fellowship (Canadian Consortium of Human Security) and joint appointment as adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta Art and Design and Political Science Departments, for the creation of work on issues of women and children in post conflict countries.
Additional photos were taken while in residency at Lalit Kala, Government Arts Residency, Delhi, India, and various exhibits in Europe and Asia .
Nagaland, India. Tea on the road during filming of the Grand Trunk Road by Rover Films,
Vienna Exhibit opening, Michael Platzer, artist, Hans Blix, Eva Kettis, and David Waller (Deputy Director General of the IAEA)
Germany - Featured EXPO 2000 exhibit at the Canadian Pavilion. Artists with the Earl and Countess of Wessex and Canadian Commissionaire Bob Blair
Vienna International Centre
Berlin
