My practice is rooted in material transformation; how bodies move through space, how touch and labour change the substances we work with and how we are changed in return. Working across sculpture, painting, textiles, installations and performance, I am drawn to the sensory and the embodied, to the reciprocal exchange between humans and nonhumans and how art translates a knowing that cannot be reached through language alone.
A daily walking practice is central to my practice. It provides a way of reading place through its rhythms, its landscape and material. The embedded memories and history I experience seep into my body and eventually into the gestural expressionist, multi-disciplinary work. This attentiveness has shaped a sustained north-south connection with Mexico. That relationship continues to inform how I understand material, labour and the body.
I was born in Regina Saskatchewan and after a career in nursing and public service received a MFA from Emily Carr University in 2022. I have work held in private collections in North America and Europe.
I swim in coastal waters
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Residencies
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, July-August, 2025
Arteventura, Aracena, Spain, May 2025
Ceramicá Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico, September, 2024 - January, 2025
Exhibitions
OPEN AIR, Group Show, Arteventura, “The Red Thread Project: Phase 1, Piligrim.” Aracena Spain, 2025
MACO, Material Group Show,“Between Earth and Heaven There Is Holy Bread.” Mexico City, February, 2025
Ceramica Suro, Group Show,“Gran Birote + Nuestro Pan ( book).” Guadalajara, Mexico, February, 2025
El Castillo Interior (formerly APTO Galeria), Group Show. Work “Open Call: i wanna dance with somebody.” Guadalajara, Mexico, January- March, 2025
Studioobrera, Solo Show, “Green Gold.” Mexico City, February 2024
Pat Martin Bates Gallery, “Primordial Gestures of Emotional Reveal.” Victoria, BC, March 2023
Emily Carr University, MFA Graduation Exhibition. Vancouver, BC, July 2022
Studioobrera, Solo Installations, “Flux” and “Latigos”. Mexico City, 2022, 2021
Emily Carr University, First Year MFA Group Show, Vancouver, BC. July 2021
Emily Carr University Graduate Gallery, Solo Show, “Body Poetics.”Vancouver BC. August 2019
Slide Room Gallery, Group Show, “Stumble.” September 2018
Slide Room Gallery, Group Show, “Barbie Bound.” Victoria BC, April 2018
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Master in Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver Canada, 2022
Master of Arts, International Peace and Conflict, Royal Roads University, Victoria Canada, 2005
Undergraduate studies: Nursing, Cultural Anthropology
Diplomas/Certificates: Herbology, Yoga, Plant Medicine, Gestalt Therapy