groundwork

Artists:
Madeline
Zoe Kreye
Audie Murray

Dates:

Saturday, June 20, 2020, 9:00 amto Saturday, July 4, 2020, 9:00 am

What are our grounding practices? In times of disorientation and dislocation, how can we cultivate physical space within and around us to foster creative expression?
 
This spring, Open Space has asked three artists to share their grounding practices in groundwork, a series of small artist talks paired with exercises designed to open up how we relate to our bodies and to place.
 
Through the month of June, find videos from artists MadelineAudie Murray, and Zoe Kreye on the Open Space website and social media. Each artist will talk about their practice and share some of their work, before inviting us to ground in body and place through presence, attention, and responsive action. Folks are invited to share their responses to these exercises on social media or by email to literary [at] openspace.ca

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Episode 1 - Madeline

Madeline is a collector and curator of memories, feelings and useless smelly trash. Sharing stories through comics, wobbly animations, and fabric scraps, their work is highly affected by the people and objects around them.

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Episode 2 - Audie Murray

Audie Murray is a multi-disciplinary artist that works with various materials including beadwork, textiles, repurposed objects, drawing, and video. Audie is currently learning and creating on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen & W̱SÁNEĆ peoples (Victoria, B.C.). Audie holds a visual arts diploma from Camosun College, 2016, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Regina, 2017. In the summer of 2017 she studied traditional tattoo practices with the Earth Line Tattoo Collective. Her BFA graduating work, Pair of Socks was selected as the Saskatchewan winner of the 2017 BMO 1st Art! Prize, and in 2018 she was the recipient of the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize through the Hnatyshyn Foundation. In 2019 Audie won jurors choice at the National Salt Spring Art Prize.

Audie's visual arts practice explores the reclamation and assertion of Indigenous bodies and the intertwining presence of themes like medicine, healing and growth. She often uses found objects from daily life and transform them with specific materials and techniques. Audie's visual art practice is focused simultaneously on the future and history and how these timelines intersect, expand and inform one another.

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Episode 3 - Zoe Kreye

I create interdisciplinary art projects that explore transformation, embodiment and collective experience. Working in the realms of sculpture, dance/movement, drawing and somatics my projects take shape as installations, performance, workshops, rituals and journeys. I am interested in making inclusive connections that have the potential to be small catalysts for change within dominant social systems. My final artworks invite people to embody the transformative capacity of image and sensation while encouraging a deeper self-reflection within themselves and society. Recent projects include Rituals for Pleasure and Dionysus (Griffin Art Projects), De Fem (WAAP), Make Our Own Air (SPACE London), Our Missing Body (Western Front, Kamloops Art Gallery), FutureLoss (grunt gallery), Unlearning Practices (Unit Pitt, Goethe Satellite, <rotor> Graz). I have studied Public Art, Social Practice and sculpture at the Bauhaus University Weimar (MFA), Concordia University Montreal (BFA) and Camosun College. I am a working artist, mother, and instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. I am a white settler that has the privilege to live and learn in Vancouver, the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.