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Quick & Dirty Artist Talks - Bodies

Quick & Dirty is a series of short talks by artists. Talented creators with practices that involve the body or bodily experiences will talk about their inspirations and creative processes.

Presenting Artists: Elizabeth Elich, Séamus Gallagher, Michelle Lacombe, & Sheri Osden Nault.

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Elizabeth Elich is a printmaker who combines fibers andmenstrual blood into her work as a way of examining experiences of menstruation. Originally from Saskatchewan, Canada, Elizabeth received her degree in Visual Arts at the University of Regina and is currently at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana working towards her MFA. Before moving to Indiana, Elizabeth had the privilege of teaching printmaking workshops throughout Saskatchewan, sessional teaching at the UofR, an artist residency at the George Bothwell Library in Regina and working at the Dunlop Art Gallery. Her work has been shown in Canada, the US and abroad.

Séamus Gallagher is a non-binary photo and virtual reality artist currently based in K’jipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). They recently graduated from NSCAD University with a double major in Photography and Expanded Media (BFA 2019). Their work has shown in festivals/exhibitions across Canada, as well as in Germany, England, Switzerland and Los Angeles. They are the recipient of the 2017 AGO | AIMIA Photography Scholarship, the 2018 NSCAD Student Awards, and the 2019 BMO 1st Art! Awards. They were also recently longlisted for the 2019 and 2021 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Awards.

Since graduating from Concordia University in 2006, Michelle Lacombe (Montreal, QC) has developed a unique practice located at the intersection of performance, drawing, and body art. Her work, which takes the form of either short-duration actions or research-based projects rooted in conceptual embodiment, is characterized by her use of simple gestures, mark-making, and strategies of discomfort to complicate the reading of her body. Recipient of the 2015 Bourse Plein Sud, her work has been shown in North America, Mexico, Argentina and Europe in the context of performance events, exhibitions, and colloquiums. Her artistic practice is paralleled by a commitment to supporting undisciplined and independent forms of art making. She is currently the director of VIVA! Art Action.

Sheri Osden Nault is a visual artist, social activist, DIY enthusiast, and occasional writer.  They are Nehiyaw and Red River Michif of the Charette and Belanger families, with Saulteax and Assiniboine ancestry. Personal and political, their art practice is grounded in Indigenous, queer, and feminist world views. Seeking social and ecological responsibility and kinship, they explore intimacy and permeability between human and non-human bodies. Their practice includes sculpture, community projects, performance, Indigenous tattoo revival, zines, and more. They received their MFA from York University in 2017 and their BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts 2012. Recent exhibitions in Toronto include the body as a fever dream curated by Dallas Fellini, at Xpace, Toronto (2020); PillOry*4, Toronto (2020); Where the Shoreline Meets the Water curated by Syrus Marcus Ware at the ArQuives, Toronto (2020); as well as Off-Centre at the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina (2019); Fix Your Hearts or Die at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2019). They were a participant in the 2019 Banff Centre Indigenous Arts residency Ghost Days, and the 2017 cohort of the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency, on Toronto Island.  

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