Margaret
Forsey
Halifax,
Nova Scotia
Residency Dates:
April 4 – July 4 |
Kara
Uzelman
Vancouver,
British Columbia
Residency Dates:
April 4 – May 31 |
| Margaret
Forsey
Margaret Forsey is a craftsperson from St. John’s, Newfoundland.
She graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and
Design in 2006. Margaret works primarily in the medium of hooked
rugs, and her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions
throughout eastern Canada. Her rugs have been described as funny,
whimsical, sweet, and just plain weird. They are very colourful
and sparkly. At KIAC, Margaret will be exploring how sunlight, or
lack of it, affects people’s moods. Besides art and craft,
Margaret loves cats, dancing, yoga and maple sugar.
|
Kara Uzelman
With an educational background based in urban planning, economics
and fine arts and since graduating from Emily Carr Institute in
2004 I have developed process-based, site specific sculpture and
installation works focusing on the rehabilitation of objects and
artifacts in my surrounding environment. In addition to working
independently I have collaborated on numerous projects most notably
with the Vancouver based collective Norma.
Four years ago I began buying entire garage sales and transforming
these collections into formal sculptures, installations and performance
props. In 2005 I mentored with Archaeologist Ross Jameson and in
conjunction with this mentorship I gathered a team of volunteers
to conduct a four-month excavation of my backyard in Vancouver.
This work informed several exhibitions in 2006 and 2007. In creating
a series of performance props, tools, objects, and documentary images
over the course of this work I became interested with the historical
and imagined narratives inherent in the objects that surround me.
Recently my research has lead to an interest in fictional inventions
specifically those found in the fiction of HG Wells, a periodic
table which catalogues fictional elements, and the mythology surrounding
the fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla. Over the course of my
two-month residency at KIAC I will be working on a new body of work
inspired by this research and the study of the materials and folklore
of my surrounding environment in Dawson City.
Creating a series of hybrid objects and photographic documents this
work will form the basis for an upcoming exhibition in Berlin, Germany,
at the Sommer & Kohl Gallery. |
