'and the city we held together' Solo Exhibition at Graven Feather Gallery, March 1-28

In case you get to Toronto this March, visit my solo exhibition at GravenFeather Gallery: 3 pop-up books, a 12 foot wall mural, a wall of grid-locked city photographs, and handmade prints and paper illustrations!

My flying feathered books are all finished up!

'Flock' book

'Plumage' book

A TINY LIBRARY

Glenn the amazing intrepid woodworker took some of my sketches for a set of folding bookshelves for my miniature books, and made the most beautiful set of shelves that perfectly fit my books...

AND that fits inside my traveling suitcase to get to book shows!!

Feathers & Plumage

I've had birds on the brain lately. Specifically the amazing fluttering feathers of pigeons, as they swarm you for fries, then fly backwards so gracefully. I want to capture that sense of frenetic, graceful motion in book format.

 

Screenprinting during a snowstorm!

Some have hidden gold within.

 

Still in progress, but getting closer!

Ayatana Residency of Biophilia: An Intersection of Scientists and Artists in Wolfville, Halifax

At the very end of this summer, I had the pleasure of joining a group of artists and scientists for the Biophilia residency through the Ayatana Program, lead by Ayatana Director Alexis Williams.




I loved the chance to see Nova Scotia again, this time up close and personally with nature!

I found some pirate ship remnants on nearby shorelines.

 

This very angry buoy

We were a diverse group of artists from Montreal, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Oregon USA, and worked with a marine biologist, an academic ecologist, and geological expert and more.

At the conclusion of the residency, each artist created an artist book inspired by their experiences. Mine is a photographic clock that captures fleeting objects - each only existing itself for a very short time-frame, representing each day I spent in Nova Scotia.

To read more about the ongoing Ayatana Residencies, visit:

http://www.artayatana.com/

And if you want to look through the entire library of artist books and accompanying catalogue, check out Alexis William's IndieGogo campaign at:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-research-artist-s-book-collection

Cheese Matchbooks - a Triptych

 Living in Quebec, a province of endless tiny cheese-makers, I think about cheese a certain amount. It's been on my mind lately!

Working away on drawing my favourite cheese!

So I made a trilogy of cheese matchbooks for on-the-go cheese appreciation!

If you need some of your own, you can find them at my Etsy Shop:

Cheese Matchbooks at Etsy.com/shop/printmonkeygirl

Wisdom Teeth!

A book of wisdom from your teeth!!

Getting put together in the mini book press.

Wisdom Teeth books can be found at my Etsy shop!

Wisdom Teeth at etsy.com/shop/printmonkeygirl