Présentation de l'artiste le mardi 22 janvier à 17h30
Artist Talk Tuesday January 22, 5h30 pm
L’artiste interdisciplinaire, D’Arcy Wilson est basée à Halifax et travaille surtout en performance et en vidéo. Elle a récemment exposé au Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax, N-É) au Odd Gallery (Yukon), au Owens Art Gallery (Sackville, NB) et à la Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton, NB). Wilson détient une maîtrise du University of Calgary (2008) et est récipiendaire de bourses du Conseil des arts du Canada, le Alberta Foundation for the Arts et ArtsNB.
Lors de sa résidence à Imago Wilson va revisiter la piece Tuck, une performance où l’artiste chante des berceuses aux specimens d’animaux sauvages du site historique du Parc National de Banff. Cette performance a également été présentée au Musée d’histoire naturelle à Halifax en Nouvelle-Écosse dans le cadre du festival d’art Nocturne 2011. Wilson va réaliser une série d’eaux-fortes rassemblant les spécimens, les scores et les paroles des chansons de ce projet.
D’Arcy Wilson is a Halifax-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance and video. She received an MFA in 2008 from the University of Calgary. Most recently, she exhibited her work in a solo exhibition, Protect Your Love at the Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax NS, and a two-person show, Fleshold at the ODD Gallery, Dawson City YT. Her work has also been exhibited at the Owens Art Gallery, Sackville NB, and Galerie Sans Nom. This past fall, D’Arcy was the Re-Focus Sustainable Art Artist in Residence, a residency hosted by Visual Arts Nova Scotia, The Khyber, and the Ecology Action Centre, in Halifax. She has also participated in residencies at the Banff Centre and the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown, PE. She has received grants from the New Brunswick Arts Board, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
While artist in residence at Imago, D’Arcy will be revisiting her performance piece Tuck, in which she composed individual lullabies and then sang them to the wildlife specimens at the Banff Park Museum National Historic Site. This performance was repeated at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax, during Nocturne 2012. D’Arcy will be spending two weeks at Imago to put the lullabies to paper. She will make a series of etchings that depict the specimens alongside the musical scores and lyrics of the songs.
