Curriculum Vitae
2017 Common Object, Etobicoke School of the Arts, Toronto, Ontario
2017 End of Year Show and Sale, Etobicoke School of the Arts, Toronto, Ontari
2018 End of Year Show and Sale, Etobicoke School of the Arts, Toronto, Ontario
2019 State of Shifting, Neilson park Creative Center, Toronto Ontario
2019 Art Talk 10, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2019 FLOWSTATE, Duel Art Show, the shorefront gallery, Etobicoke, Ontario
2019 Portfolio Day 10 (PDX), Etobicoke School of the Arts, Toronto, Ontario
2019 Holly Mclachlan’s Musical Puppet Show Extravaganza! Toronto, Ontario
2020 The Etobicoke Art Group Award
2020 End of Year Art Sale (Online)
2021 Album Cover for Captain Seasick Toronto, Ontario
2021 Actress in the student film Woolen hat, Oakville, Ontario
2022 Album Cover for LILY IS THAT YOUs song, ALL ABOUT ME
2022 Props master and SFX for the student film When the fire Goes Out, Oakville, Ontario
2022 Made and puppeteered Mama Deer for the student film Deer Meat Oakville, Ontario
2022 Background Animator for the short documentary, Feeling the Apocolypse
The film Played at the Canadian Film Fest, The 8th International Alexandria Short Film Festival in Greece, along with a premiere in the International Environmental Film Festival (FINCA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and finally an upcoming Premiere at the Oscar-qualifying 36th Edmonton International Film Festival in Alberta.
Artist Statment
My artwork is a part of myself that continues to grow and think as I do. I had a wildly active imagination as a child but I was never able to communicate my ideas due to my slow developing literacy skills. Creating artwork that was my own made me proud and gave me confidence and validation I didn’t get anywhere else in my life at the time. Growing up for me was difficult. For years I felt very alone and damaged by everything that was happening in my life because I didn’t properly express it to anyone. My work shows this, the way my mind thinks about the world. Mixing all my negative thoughts about the bad situations I've experienced, took my practice to a place of chaos that reflected my lived reality. This became my favorite place to be. I fell in love with the idea and the aesthetic known as bedlam. I could hide in it. The amount of imagery in my art represents the number of chaotic things happening in my mind and life. Safe to say my work is the opposite of minimalist.
The process of creating resolves my problems and turns my emotion into physical work. With the production of all my art, in all its different forms, I can reflect upon the situations and emotions that empowered me to make the work.
This emotion+creation = reflection process is evidence that I am learning to let go of the negativity in my life through art.
The process of creating to work through my thoughts and problems has become a natural extension of my life. It’s now like thinking or breathing or Eating.
It’s what makes me happy. It’s what allows me to forgive.
about me
Hello!
My name is ᖇᑘᗷᖻ ᕲᗩᐺᓰᘿS,
I'm a multidisciplinary artist from
Toronto, Ontario, and a 2020 graduate from the Etobicoke School of the Arts.