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. They draw parallels between conversations of contemporary feminist, social, and environmental issues using encroaching urban | domestic 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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She seeks someplace quiet to introspect and hopes viewers find her 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

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*As a lifelong guest on this land, this is an affirmation that the city of Thunder Bay where the artist currently lives and works is located on the territory of Anishinaabe peoples of Northwestern Ontario and the land of the Fort William First Nation.