For the month of March and April 2022 I will be displaying my work Patched at the Kitchener Public Library in their gallery on the lower floor. This will be a two-person exhibition along with another artist on the opposing wall.
I will be displaying 20 framed Patched installations and some of my nature inspired poems.
Patched is an ongoing series of photographs where map paper (made from maps of places I have been to) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending.
Could the landscape be an archive remembering every mark and every trace set upon it? Will my footprints still be here when I am no longer? For how long will the traces of me stay on the surface of the earth?
featuring two separate exploratory photography exhibits with accompanying poetry by artists Annette Dekker & Jackie Partridge
In celebration of Poetry Month: https://poets.ca/npm/ April 2022
Hello Shadow
Artist: Annette Dekker
Enraged by Shadow’s relentless stalking
The woman behind the camera
turns
shoots
captures the prowler – live,
smirking at her strutting
on a seabed of bleached eelgrass . . .
Annette Dekker is currently in private practice as a psychotherapist. She is fascinated by the capacity of people to heal and to explore their inner worlds. Annette finds joy in photography and writing and sometimes uses these mediums to better understand herself. She surprised herself when the outcome of such exploration became an exhibition. She shares this work in the hope that it inspires others to become acquainted with their own Shadows.
Patched
Artist: Jackie Partridge
I feel for places.
We walk all over them.
We stomp on them.
We forget about them.
Rarely do we visit.
And when we do –
We drop by unannounced.
Coming from a small town and family heritage of farming, Jackie Partridge has visually seen the land developing over time. She has seen and felt both the impacts of climate change and urbanization within her community.
As a mixed media artist, she is interested in expressing the rural landscape in an abstract and poetic way through drawings and installations.
Patched is an ongoing series of photographs where map paper (made from maps of places she has been) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending.
She asks, ‘Could the landscape be an archive remembering every mark and every trace set upon it? Will my footprints still be here when I am no longer? For how long will the traces of me stay on the surface of the earth?’
http://www.jackiepartridge.com/work#/patched/
The Kitchener Public Library is located 85 Queen Street North
Kitchener ON N2H 2H1
Phone: 519-743-0271
The Patched exhibition is on til the end of April, 2022. If you have a chance to see it please share photos on social media by tagging me @jackiepartridge_ or use the #patchedproject.
Purchase my book Patched here -that contains poetry and photographs.
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