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Awards and Residencies
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2021 Best of Craft and Design at the Toronto Outdoor Art Festival.
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2018 Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts
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2018 Best of 3D/Sculpture at the New Art Festival.
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2016 Emerging Artist Grant, awarded by the Ontario Art Council.
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2015 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Craft Ontario/Ontario Art Council.
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2015 Best in Show at the Muskoka Arts and Crafts Summer Show
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2014 Creation Grant for Professional Artists, awarded by the City of Ottawa.
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2014 City of Ottawa Artist Studio Program Participant. Resident artist at the Gardener's House, Britannia.
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2013 ARTicipate Project Grant, awarded by the AOE Arts Council.
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2013 Emerging Artist Grant, awarded by the Ontario Art Council.
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2011 Mary Robertson Textile Scholarship, awarded by Craft Ontario.
Selected Exhibition History
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2022, 2021, 2016-2019, The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, ON.
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2022, 2012-2019, The New Art Festival, Ottawa, ON.
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2022 Holding Pattern: 2021 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection.
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2021, 2013-2020, Enriched Bread Artists Open Studios
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2017 (Inter)woven at the Ottawa Art Gallery Annex, Ottawa, ON. Group exhibition.
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2016 Cu: Copper and Textile Fabrications. With Fran Solar at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum.
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2016 Left Behind, Group Exhibit focusing on the Refugee Crisis, Ottawa, ON.
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2015 Woven Stories and Knitted Mementos, Espace Pierre Debain, Aylmer, QC. Special thanks to the Ontario Arts Council and Craft Ontario for exhibition assistance.
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2014 Untitled with Laura Shepperd at La Fab. Chelsea, QC. Oct. 9th-26th.
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2014 Copper: From the Earth to Art and the Body. With Tanya McCormick at the Stone School Gallery. Portage-du-Fort, QC. August 15th to Sep. 7th.
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2014 Pop-Up Fibre Art Gallery at Wabi Sabi with fellow artists Marie-France Gosselin, Maureen Ballagh and Mary Pal. June 21st - June 30th. Part of Hintonburg Happening.
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2014 Solo show, ASP Gallery, Nepean Creative Arts Centre, Ottawa.
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2014 Verdigris, Trinity Art Gallery, Salon A, at The Shenkman Arts Centre, Orleans, ON. Jan 9th - Feb. 11th.
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2013 Solo Exhibition, Chambers Gallery, Nov. 18th - Dec. 10th. Almonte, ON.
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2013 Solo Exhibition, Corridor Gallery, Dec 10th- Jan. 7th. Almonte, ON.
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2013 Fibrefest, Almonte, ON.
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2013 Chinatown Remixed, Ottawa, ON.
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2012 De rerum natura (the Nature of Things), World of Threads Festival, A Common Thread International Exhibition, Nov. 2 – 18, 2012, Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville, Ontario. My interview for the World of Threads Festival can be found here.
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2012 Chelsea Art, Culture and Heritage Centre Opening Exhibition, Nov. 24th - Dec. 14th.
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2012 Fibrefest 2012, Almonte, ON,
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2012 Nuit Noir, Cube Gallery, July 3rd-29th, Ottawa, Ontario.
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2011 Award Winners 2011 Exhibition, Ontario Craft Council Gallery, Toronto, ON.
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2010 Hard Twist CHROMA!, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario.
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2010 Fibreworks 2010, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario.
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2010 Green, organised by the Focus on Fibre Art Association, Edmonton, Alberta.
Education
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Bachelor of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary (2004-2007), NSCAD University, Halifax, NS, focus on textiles arts and metalsmithing.
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Jacquard Weaving (2007) Le Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal.
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Jewellery Techniques (2007) École de Joaillerie de Montréal
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Introduction to Encaustic (2011) The Ottawa School of Art
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Innovative Papermaking (2011) The Ottawa School of Art
Memberships