This is my beautiful boy Parker. On February 17, 2023 he lost his hard fought battle with addiction to opioids and fentanyl. He was only 23 years old.
Parker was my harshest critic and my staunchest supporter. He attended to help some of my installations and travelled with me when I was working on the weekends. I miss his opinions and his help as well as his smiling face and sharp humour and our standing Saturday date together.
While the #hopeandhealingcanada project continues I will also be working on a project which will aim to speak about this crisis in Canada as well as the stigma that accompanies addiction. Every death that happens as a result of addiction is a clear failure of drug policies in this country. My work will address and confront this political failing as well as the responsibility of the pharmaceutical companies.
Parker was my harshest critic and my staunchest supporter. He attended to help some of my installations and travelled with me when I was working on the weekends. I miss his opinions and his help as well as his smiling face and sharp humour and our standing Saturday date together.
While the #hopeandhealingcanada project continues I will also be working on a project which will aim to speak about this crisis in Canada as well as the stigma that accompanies addiction. Every death that happens as a result of addiction is a clear failure of drug policies in this country. My work will address and confront this political failing as well as the responsibility of the pharmaceutical companies.
#hopeandhealingcanada
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2023 #hopeandhealingcanadaVenues 2023 this is not a complete list and is updated often
(date indicates installation day) Langley Centennial Museum January 10 March 17-18 Canada Agriculture and Food Museum One of a kind show Toronto March 29 - April 2 Artist Project Toronto April 12-16 Vancouver Art BC May 4-7 Granville Island BC May 9-10 Richmond Cultural Centre May 12 Evergreen Cultural Centre BC May 15 KIng Heritage & Cultural Centre ON May 23 PAMA June 1 Mattawa Museum ON June 3 Le Musée de l’Auberge Symmes QC June 4 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Halifax June 6 Science North June 15 Niagara Falls Museum June 19 Oshawa Museum June 20 Rideau Hall-Official Residence of Her Excellency The Governor General Mary Simon. June 21 Lacombe Museum AB June 23 Shurniak Gallery SK July 24 Robert Langdon Art Gallery August 18 Vaughan University Library, Acadia University September 18 NS Museum of Surrey October 17 BC Royal Agricultural Fair November 2-12 2024 Venues
Karsh-Masson Gallery and City Hall Art Gallery Arnprior and District Museum Kronau Heritage Museum Westfield Heritage Village Conservation Area Lambton Heritage Museum Museum of Lennox & Addington 2025 Venues City of Toronto Archives Heritage Park 2022 #hopeandhealingcanada |
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Completed Venues 2021 K2 Gallery Gage Park Stratford Art Gallery NRPC- Balls Falls Niagara Pumphouse Gallery Riverbrink Art Museum Niagara Falls City Hall Grimsby Public Art Gallery Bayfront Park Hamilton Dundas Museum and Archives Port Dover Harbour Museum Carnegie Gallery Craft Ontario City of Pickering Trillium Health Partners Mississauga Orillia Museum of Arts & History McMaster Art Museum Black Creek Pioneer Village Mississippi Valley Textile Museum National Historic Site Celebration of Nations St Catharines M'Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre Tom Thomson Art Gallery Guelph Museums Woodland Cultural Centre Humber Galleries Peel Art Gallery S Queen Elizabeth Cultural Centre Oakville Hamilton Art Gallery Parliament Hill McIntosh Art Gallery @Western University Niagara Arts Centre Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre Sault St Marie Museum Wellington County Museum Cultural Centre Halton Hills Gibson Museum Todmorden Mills Montgomery"s Inn Spadina Museum Colborne Lodge Scarborough Museum Fort York Mississauga Festival of trees Waterloo Park |
Venues 2022
Bruce County Museum Feb 14 Deep Water Gallery Feb 15 Southhampton Arts Feb 16 Huron County Museum Feb 17 Gallery Stratford Feb 18 Archives of Ontario Feb 28 University of Waterloo Gallery March 2 Cambridge Art Galleries April 11 Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone (BACA) QC April 30 - May 8 ThunderBay Museum ON May 10 Douglas Family Art Centre ON May 12 Murney Tower Museum ON May 16 Fanshawe Pioneer Village ON May 17 Museum of Vancouver BC May 25/26 Gabriola Arts BC May 28 Chilliwack Museum and Archives BC June 3 Fort La Reane MB June 4 Waterloo Park ON June 7 Schneider Haus National Historic Site ON June 9 McDougall Cottage Historic Site ON June 10 Doon Heritage Village ON June 11 Glanmore National Historic Site ON June 14 Battelfield Park ON June 15 Passages Insolites QC June 19 -23 Memory Lane Heritage Village NS June 26-27 Waterloo ON July 1 Galt Museum AB July 4 Strathcona Museum and Archives AB July 6 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair July 15 -18 Judith and Norman Alix Gallery ON August 4/5 Black Creek Pioneer Village ON August 6 Collingwood Museum ON August 13 Dalnavery Museum September 15 MB St. Marys Museum ON August 2 Stouffville Museum ON September 6 St. Lawrence College ON- Brockville Sept 7 Kingston Sept 8 Cornwall Sept 9 Aurora Cultural Centre September 13 Art Now Fine Art Fair SK September 2o Dalnavert Museum September 22 First Ontario Arts Centre Milton September 29 Pickering Museum Village October 8 |