Single Moms Chilling Park

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 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 …

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"I can't subsidize the university with my labour" by Ernesto (pseudonym for an ECU sessional instructor) and Terra Poirier, 2018.

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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