Happy Mother’s Day! This installation is a love letter to single moms, poor moms, teen moms, east van moms, queer moms and trans and non-binary parents whose labour is so often ignored and disrespected. It also joins a conversation started in 2018 by Andrea Finlay and Cynthia Brooke of Queer Spacing Collective when they installed the “Dyke …
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Sessional Office exhibiting in the ECUAD faculty show
I’m pleased to be exhibiting in support of the Emily Carr University faculty in their 2020 exhibition The Work of the Work (details below). In March 2018, I did an intervention outside the Emily Carr University president’s office to draw attention to problematic working conditions for contract faculty. At that time the president enjoyed a …
Space & precarity: Artist talk with Pia Massie, Terra Poirier & guests
To close our exhibition at Mónica Reyes Gallery, Pia Massie and I will discuss our projects, followed by a conversation with local artists to consider intersections of space and labour precarity. Feb 23, 2pm Mónica Reyes Gallery 602 e Hastings, Vancouver Gallery hours are Wed-Fri 11am-2pm, Sat 12-4pm Guests: Tarah Hogue is a curator and …
Sessional Office at Mónica Reyes Gallery: Non-Regular lives on, in a dual exhibition with activist-artist Pia Massie.
Mattering Map Redux & Sessional Office February 7-23, 2019 Opening reception: Thursday, February 7, 6-8pm Artists talk: Saturday, February 23, 2pm Mónica Reyes Gallery 602 E Hastings, Vancouver BC monicareyesgallery.com FB event Mónica Reyes Gallery is pleased to present a dual exhibition by artist-educator, activist and filmmaker Pia Massie and interdisciplinary artist Terra Poirier. This …
Non-Regular book launch & artist talk
My new book, Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, which I made in collaboration with 26 instructors and artists, is being published by UNIT/PITT Projects and is launching this fall! Tuesday October 23, 2018 at 6:00pm ECUAD Aboriginal Gathering Place 2nd (main) floor, Emily Carr University of Art and …
Exhibiting at the Vancouver Art Book Fair
I’m excited to be exhibiting at the Vancouver Art Book Fair this year! I’ll be selling my new book Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, which I made in collaboration with 26 instructors and artists. We’re also having a big launch event on Oct 23 as part of Vancouver …
Soft launch of Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Please come to the soft launch of the book I made in collaboration with 22 Emily Carr faculty members and other artists. I will be exhibiting it in the Reading Room at the Emily Carr University Grad Show. The show runs May 5-20, 2018 OPENING NIGHT: Sat May 5, 5-9pm (I will be on site …
Exhibition Apr 4-28: Uncertain Ground
This collection of work, like much of my long exposure photography, is concerned with memory and landscape. Having spent much of my life on the move outside and within Vancouver, I am interested in how location functions as an anchor for memory, particularly in so far as both are unstable, a trait further shared by …
Exhibition: Photobase: Re-imagined Memories
I’m so pleased to be participating in Capture Photography Festival again this year, this time in a group show of artists who work with family photographs. I’ll be showing my handmade photo-text book series Are you sure? Volumes 1-3. The other artists in the show are: Angela Aujla, Kathleen Ainscough, Felicia Chang, Jeffery Chong, Linda …
Shortlisted for the 2018 Capture Photography Festival Canada Line competition
I’m thrilled to be shortlisted for this year’s Capture Photography Festival‘s Canada Line public art competition. The winner will have their work installed for six months at King Edward Station in Vancouver. The winner is chosen through a public vote on the Georgia Straight website—check it out, lots of really great work to vote for. …