Fanshawe art students showcase work at Tap Centre for Creativity
Works by nine second-year fine art students at Fanshawe College are featured in a new exhibition.
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Works by nine second-year fine art students at Fanshawe College are featured in a new exhibition.
SOS Society of Selfishness is on at Tap Centre For Creativity until Saturday.
Students with work in the show include Hilary Crowe, Samuel Echavarria Rodriguez, Daera Judge, Veronica Lee, Libby Moran, Reyna Ortiz Marquez, Shirley Schlax, Adam VanderHeide and Angelica Warwick.
This is the first student exhibition since the pandemic began two years ago.
SOS Society of Selfishness is part of a visual research course taught by Joscelyn Gardner.
“Responding to our natural world in crisis, the students have worked with textiles to create large-scale soft sculpture installations or wall hangings that address current pressing ecological issues wrought by human intervention, and ultimately human selfishness – the Anthropocene Epoch,” wrote Gardner in an email.
Hilary Crowe’s work, Camp Fire Forest Fire, “points to the after-effects of wildfires through a sculptural installation of dark grey felted fabric forms that convey the ravages of a forest fire, their shadows projected onto the wall,” Gardner said.
In another piece, Samuel Echavarria Rodriguez “speaks to the bleaching of the coral reefs in his two-panel wall relief, Beauty to Bleach, made from fabric and synthetic sponges and netting (used to wrap vegetables).”
Gardner said the works in the exhibition use synthetic and natural fabrics, found materials, and thread, and “adopt creative techniques that are associated with domestic handicrafts, gendered labour, and care (sewing, quilting, and embroidery).
“They subvert these decorative arts to speak to a looming environmental catastrophe, while also offering sparks of hope for a regenerative future where nature will prevail,” Gardner said.
“At the very least, this exhibition will make you think about serious issues that deserve our attention, with a sprinkle of humour.”
If you go
What: SOS Society of Selfishness, an exhibition featuring works by nine second-year Fanshawe College fine art students
When: Until Saturday
Where: Tap Centre for Creativity, 203 Dundas St.
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