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“Living in Puerto Rico allowed me the space and time to develop my studio practice. Through painting, drawing and printmaking, I explored landscapes, primarily though the lens of science, ecological theory, and phenomenology. After 5 years abroad, I returned to Lethbridge, where I work as an artist and am a mother to two young children.
“My ongoing interest in science, particularly biology, continues to inform my artistic direction. Making art about science is a complicated affair. Science attempts to remove human subjectivity, while art continually engages with it. Much of my studio practice operates in consideration of this flux between an ego and ego-less state.
“This lecture will focus on a series of paintings and drawings I began while living in Puerto Rico, and is on exhibition at Trianon Gallery until March 31. In this body of work I explored landscape through the lens of science and ecology. I am particularly drawn to the dynamic processes that shape landscapes and keep them in a state of flux, and the scientific process that we use to build ideas about how nature works.”
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca