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PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS

SOUNDS OF THINGS

Bonavista Biennale

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SYMPOEISIS // FRUITING BODIES

The Plumb



Peter Campbell, SALT (Rachel Crummey and Tara Dougans),

Erin Hunt, Sara Maston, Joy Wong, and Thea Yabut


With sound by Luke Loseth


Curated by Rachel Crummey and Tara Dougans, with support from Emma Welch


Photos: LF Documentation

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GOLDTHREAD

JK Contemporary

This group of exploratory paintings emerged out of an interest in the relationship of the mind/body to nature and image-making, particularly the process of attuning to plant intelligence. The ancient practice of spending time engaging bodily and 'imaginally' with a plant's life form and energetic life force through the poetics of metaphor and image perception, has been integral to various wisdom traditions for centuries. The analogous relationship between an open process of finding and developing an image in a painting and the ancient healing practice of listening to a plant's gesture was the territory out of which these paintings were made.

The plants' form and spirit, like ours, having been been shaped over thousands of years in relationship to their environment, appear to express a particular energetic gesture as part of their multidimensional subtle body. This material and immaterial confluence reveals the expression of a process in relationship to a much more vast whole, rather than a "thing" easily fixed into a known quantity. The capacity of the body/mind understood as a field in which the imagination might be engaged for the purpose of discovery, connection, and wisdom in relation to nature, through the rigor of inner observation, mirrored something I was familiar with in the painting process, but had never consciously considered in relation to the construction of an image.

After spending time with a number of flowers growing on Fogo Island, stories, objects, and archetypal healing gestures associated with individual plants found their way into the work as elements from which the paintings were constructed. Visual references include historical narratives, children's books, medieval paintings, and everyday things found in the studio. In a number of the paintings, an abstract language was found over time through an intuited gestural conversation between two particular flowers.


Goldthread is a wildflower found on Fogo Island. Research for this project was possible thanks to generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts. The exhibition took place at JK Contemporary in 2022

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SAM'S HEAD

Exhibition with Silke Otto-Knapp
Long Studio, Fogo Island

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BIG IDEA

The Painting Center
New York, NY

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DOT DOT DOT 

Former Courthouse, Fogo

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CELLAR DOOR

Former Marconi Station Master's Root Cellar, Well, and Signal Pole,  Fogo

Collaboration with Kingman Brewster

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THINGS THAT ARE NOTHING

Rogue, Eastern Edge Gallery