FRINGE
From May 2023 to May 2025 I completed a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
With a multidisciplinary approach to my studies, I combined fine textile handwork, the use of rapid prototyping machines, video, and choreography within this work.
This MFA work was exhibited along with my cohort of graduates in an exhibition titled LOCUS at Grenfell Art Gallery from May 23, 2025 to June 21, 2025.
FRINGE
Rapid prototyping machines such as laser cutters, 3D printers, and drawing machines as well as their larger industrial scale kin, are used to produce objects that permeate our consumer driven world.
In this work, I developed dance notation inspired by the movements inherent in textile and craft instructional drawings. The machines read these notations and use them to perform their movements.
Dance # 1, 2025, Copper foil, watercolour and acrylic paint, watercolour paper
The creative, emotional, and sensual capabilities of these machines as dancers allows them to both perform dance as physical movement and record the dance steps as drawings. I bring the movements to video, adding queer club aesthetics and 90’s electronic pop sounds.
Using fringe, a material drenched in queer code, to create costumes for these machines to wear, I explore the binary of machine and human, allowing that binary to be interrogated.
Costume “Animal”, 2025, felt, fringe, beads, sequins
She Wants to Move, 2025. video and sound projection.
