Specializing in painting and drawing throughout receiving their BFA at the University of Ottawa, the artist depicts narratives of solastalgia on ephemeral surfaces using frenetically-applied oils. Sur-Realities emerge in her practice as she draws parallels between conversations of contemporary feminist, social, and environmental issues using encroaching domestic or urban imagery. These visual and contextual intersections emerge as she herself was uprooted from Northern Ontario and her hometown of Thunder Bay to the political-cultural hub that is Ottawa. ​​

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No matter the setting, they seek someplace quiet to introspect and hope viewers find their practice as a waypoint in their own voyage towards persistent revelations - one complete with perils, euphorias, delays, and abnormal interventions. Though, holding the belief that the art she makes does not contain one single finality to leave viewers content, she considers her work a site for contemplation, questioning, and knowledge sharing. 

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As an observer, collector, and researcher into the pleasures, horrors, 'nones,' and 'alls' of human experience, I hope my results reveal humorous, disgusting, spiritual, and used aspects overlapping our mundane world. Myths devoid of reason and folklore without moralities reconcile as variations of myself converse and play.

 

Remember me fondly, and my work? Monstrously. 

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- Erin