All The King’s Horses 2021 - hotel bed sheets (dyed), stuffing from pillows, cardboard, thread, hoses. - dimensions variable: life-sized parts Last year near my cabin, I came across the body of a bear that had been shot, wounded & eventually died. I recognised her from seeing her around all summer. The conservation officer gave [...]
Feral Branches, found detritus (natural and man-made) found & built on site approx. 48” tall 2012 Commissioned as part of Canadian Spirit at the Tom Thompson Art Gallery, Owen Sound curator Mike Yuhasz. Copy of a photo of a dog standing beside Tom Thompson. Installed 30 feet up a tree in the park adjacent to [...]
leap of faith Metal armature, stuffing, repurposed leather ‘skin’, wood, large building. Somewhat larger than life sized , 2010. An older work (Seam) was reimagined as a temporary installation placed on a kind of diving board projecting from the second floor windows of a decaying turn of the century bank. Inspired by the freedom of [...]
mettle scrap metal salvaged from a turn of the century Gold Rush era dump in Dawson, conceived and assembled in situ. Life sized. 2004 This was built on site, and left to collapse back into the scrap pile from whence it came, during a residency at the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture. However, after [...]
urban planning for animals, Sackville clear and white plastic refuse collected from roaming the streets and alleys of Sackville, packing tape. 3 figures, life sized, 2009 Installed on the façade of Struts gallery as part of OK Quoi.
pack: the natural and the manufactured shrink wrap plastic scavenged from the dump. dimensions variable (life sized) 2006 7 coyote figures running in sequence, reminiscent of the ubiquitous plastic bags stuck in trees. Built during an invitational Natural and Manufactured residency with the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, left up for a year.
urban planning for animals, Toronto 2 figures: Indoor fox- natural and manmade materials collected during a half hour search of a vacant lot near the gallery. Outdoor fox- knotted and woven grasses still growing out of the earth in another nearby vacant lot. life sized. 2006 Built as part of a group show at the [...]
hoarse heard Wire 10 life size figures 1987 Student exhibition. The photographs don’t quite convey that it was possible to walk between and around them, and the figures filled the space.
geology found and gathered flat rock assembled on a long hike off the Dempster, somewhere out on the Tundra, NWT 7 feet across, 2001 Guerilla installation.
herd steel & copper wire 7 life size figures 1991 After the show at the Birganart, the work was temporarily installed high overhead in the lobby of the Scotia Bank Plaza, Toronto.
