Author: jogervai

Open Studio Gallery Alison Trim 9 – 20 September 2019  Over this two week period current MFA student Alison Trim will be using the FINA gallery as an open studio space to explore her graduate research within a white box gallery space and the potential for developing the work through installational approaches. This is a working studio space, not an...

Re-covering and Remembering is a collaborative documentary film that weaves Indigenous stories of cultural and political resurgence on Vancouver Island. While reflecting on and sharing stories about family, my mentors and I collaborated to produce a film with a powerful counter-narrative to assert Indigenous sovereignty and connection to place. I make films and media art that centers around spiritual, cultural,...

Sequestered Elements Joe Fowler This exhibition explores cultural objects from my home, the island of Newfoundland. Growing up and living there for most of my life has shaped my artistic output in ways I continue to discover, not just in terms of subject matter but also in how I actually go about making my art. Newfoundland is an island inhabited...

An exhibition by UBCO MFA students Jess Dennis, Emerald Holt and Alison Trim Monday 25 February – Friday 1 March 2019 Making Senses is a multidisciplinary exhibition of research-based artistic practice. The work of these three artists intersects through a sensory engagement with their worlds, and the physical traces of that engagement that their differing methodologies and processes create. Jess...