Biography / Artist Statement
Since I was a toddler, I’ve been gathering interesting sticks. My first memory is when I was presented with wood scraps, a hammer, and nails. Today, my reverence for wood and craftwork continues, now mediated by a BFA from Queen's University and years of tending to my furniture-making company, Alternative Woodworks Ltd.
Through a multidisciplinary approach alongside traditional woodworking, I investigate the attributes of wood to contemplate the material’s value and legacy. The intent behind my work is to develop a holistic account of its influence in natural and constructed environments.
From my home on Vancouver Island, I nurture opportunities to harness wood’s spirit to connect with the landscape, viewing the world through a storied lens of the material. From an old skid, a discarded piece in a dumpster, to the most unique formations deep within a forest, I engage with a tree’s capacity to become something. A tree possesses all the belonging it requires, but as timber, its potential can be transformed into various purposes such as fuel for heat, construction material, and delicate craftwork.
With an expression of its own making, the circumstances we find wood reflect our relationship with it. By celebrating our innate connection with wood, I engage with its agency so that it can serve as a connective node to the environment and a means for philosophical examination in identifying with the materiality of all things.
My art has been exhibited in various venues across Canada, and I have had municipalities in BC and Alberta commission public artworks. I’ve curated several shows, operated a commercial gallery, and developed a family-friendly print-based workshop. I have participated in residencies around the globe, am a member of several artist collectives, Nanaimo’s Urban Design Roster, and volunteer with Tofino’s Public Art Committee.
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PUBLIC ART
-August 2025-ongoing. Shaping the Found. Brooklin, Durham Region, Ont.
-June 2025-ongoing. Fluance. Westwood Lake Park. Nanaimo, BC.
-Jan-Feb 2025. Luminus Paths: Nanaimo’s 150 & Beyond. Nanaimo, BC.
-July 2024-May 2025. Adage. Municipality of Oak Bay, Arts Alive Sculpture Walk. Victoria, BC.
-August 2024. Installations at the ArtisTREE Festival. Government House, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2023-2028. Compelling Agency. City of Nanaimo’s Temporary Public Art Program, Nanaimo, BC.
-Oct 2023. Reclaim Public Art presentations. Rotunda Building, Victoria, BC.
-Sept 2023. Reconversion. N!GHT L!GHT Festival, Victoria Park neighbourhood, Calgary, AB.
-Aug-Oct 2023. Endlessness. Allthingy Multipurpose Platform, Salt Spring Island, BC. -Nov 2022-Feb 2023. Pliant. Victoria Arts Council’s Window Gallery at Studio 531 Architects, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2022-Dec 2023. Reposition. Ministry of Casual Living’s Window Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-July 2018-ongoing. Interweave. Lobby of the Cowichan Community Center, Duncan, BC.
-Jan-March 1998. Water and Architecture. Stauffer Library at Queens University, Kingston, ON.
SOLO SHOWS
-March 2025. Conversing Gestures. Little Fernwood Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-December 2024. Ject. The Vault Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-July-Sept 2024. Imprints. VAC airport Satellite Gallery, Saanich. BC.
-Sept-Oct 2024. Conversing Gestures. Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC.
-May-June 2022. FOUR-FOUND. arc-hive artist-run centre, Victoria, BC.
-Sept-Oct 2021. Timber Timbre. Cedar Hill Art Gallery, Saanich, BC.
-Apr 2018. Out of Seen. The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Jan 2013. Impressions: Art, Craft, Poetry. Martin Bachelor Gallery, Victoria, BC.
GROUP SHOWS
-June-Sept 2025. Small Works Show and Sale. AGGV, Victoria, BC.
-April-May 2025. Shifting Ground. Dundarave Print Workshop and Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
-Aug-Sept 2024. Palimpsest. Metchosen Art Pod, Metchosen, BC.
-March 2024. PRINT: imPRESSions. Arc-hive artist-run centre, Victoria, BC.
-July-Aug 2023. Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC.
-Apr-May 2022. Extractions: Resources Through an Artistic Lens. Coquitlam Heritage Atrium, Coquitlam, BC.
-Jan-Feb 2021. Eco Echo. Victoria Arts Council’s ‘Vault’ Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-Nov-Feb 2020. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-July-Aug 2019. Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC.
-May-July 2019. Alternator Artmart. Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC.
-Apr. 2019. Imprint. Fort Gallery, Fort Langley, BC.
-Mar-Apr 2019. Luminescence IV. Deer Lake Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC.
-Apr 2018. Harmonized Motion. Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Mar 2018. Under/Where? The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Nov 2017-Jan 2018. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2015-Jan 2016. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-Aug 2015. Decored. Martin Bachelor Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-May-June 1999. Headlock. Union Gallery/Ontario Hall, Kingston, ON.
-Dec 1996-Jan 1997. Cruz. Union Art Gallery, Kingston, ON.
-Sept 1995. Emergence/See. Definitely Superior Artist Run Centre, Thunder Bay, ON.
RESIDENCIES
-Aug 2025. Intervene- Acting as host and participant, facilitated by STEPS Public Art. Mill Bay, BC.
-June 2024. Joya. Vélez Blanco, Spain.
-May 2024. Empire of Dirt. Creston, BC.
-Aug 2023. RECLAIM. Pat Martin Bates Gallery with The Victoria Arts Council and STEPS Public Art. Victoria, BC.
-Aug 2022. Outlier (Ou Gallery). Gabriola Island, BC.
NOTABLE ACTIVITIES
-2024-ongoing. Member of the Public Art Advisory Committee, District of Tofino, BC.
-2024-2026. Member of the Urban Design Roster. Nanaimo, BC.
-Feb 2023. ‘Touch’ Creative Mornings Talk. Victoria, BC, and broadcast globally.
-2022-ongoing. Member of the Victoria Print Society
-Dec 2010–April 2012. Owner, Creative Director and Artist, Points Art Gallery, Duncan.
-2004-ongoing. Owner, Operator and Creative Director of Alternative Woodworks Ltd.
EDUCATION
-1996-1999. Bachelor of Fine Arts (accredited) Queens University.
-1995-1996. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Lakehead University.
PRESS
-October 6, 2024. Coast Reporter. Interview and article about Conversing Gestures at GPAG.https://www.coastreporter.net/
-August 10, 2024. CHEK news. Speaking about the role of Adage in Oak Bay’s Sculpture walk
-November 30, 2023. CHLY Midcoast Morning Program. Speaking about Compelling Agency- podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/art-around-town/id1557194219?i=1000637209049
-July 10, 2018. Interview on CBC radio 90.5 in Victoria. Speaking about Interweave at the Island Savings Centre
-July 18, 2018. Interview and article for Interweave on Chek News, Victoria. www.cheknews.ca/cut-down-legacy-tree-in-duncan-revived-as-art-471312/
-June 29, 2018. Cowichan Valley Citizen. Article written about Interweave.www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/disputed-maple-reborn-at-island-savings-centre-in-duncan-as-art-piece-2/
-January 2013, April 2018, November 2020 and January 2024. Cowichan Valley Voice, ‘Talking Arts’ featured Artist, one-page written description of recent creative ventures with illustrations.
Since I was a toddler, I’ve been gathering interesting sticks. My first memory is when I was presented with wood scraps, a hammer, and nails. Today, my reverence for wood and craftwork continues, now mediated by a BFA from Queen's University and years of tending to my furniture-making company, Alternative Woodworks Ltd.
Through a multidisciplinary approach alongside traditional woodworking, I investigate the attributes of wood to contemplate the material’s value and legacy. The intent behind my work is to develop a holistic account of its influence in natural and constructed environments.
From my home on Vancouver Island, I nurture opportunities to harness wood’s spirit to connect with the landscape, viewing the world through a storied lens of the material. From an old skid, a discarded piece in a dumpster, to the most unique formations deep within a forest, I engage with a tree’s capacity to become something. A tree possesses all the belonging it requires, but as timber, its potential can be transformed into various purposes such as fuel for heat, construction material, and delicate craftwork.
With an expression of its own making, the circumstances we find wood reflect our relationship with it. By celebrating our innate connection with wood, I engage with its agency so that it can serve as a connective node to the environment and a means for philosophical examination in identifying with the materiality of all things.
My art has been exhibited in various venues across Canada, and I have had municipalities in BC and Alberta commission public artworks. I’ve curated several shows, operated a commercial gallery, and developed a family-friendly print-based workshop. I have participated in residencies around the globe, am a member of several artist collectives, Nanaimo’s Urban Design Roster, and volunteer with Tofino’s Public Art Committee.
CV
PUBLIC ART
-August 2025-ongoing. Shaping the Found. Brooklin, Durham Region, Ont.
-June 2025-ongoing. Fluance. Westwood Lake Park. Nanaimo, BC.
-Jan-Feb 2025. Luminus Paths: Nanaimo’s 150 & Beyond. Nanaimo, BC.
-July 2024-May 2025. Adage. Municipality of Oak Bay, Arts Alive Sculpture Walk. Victoria, BC.
-August 2024. Installations at the ArtisTREE Festival. Government House, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2023-2028. Compelling Agency. City of Nanaimo’s Temporary Public Art Program, Nanaimo, BC.
-Oct 2023. Reclaim Public Art presentations. Rotunda Building, Victoria, BC.
-Sept 2023. Reconversion. N!GHT L!GHT Festival, Victoria Park neighbourhood, Calgary, AB.
-Aug-Oct 2023. Endlessness. Allthingy Multipurpose Platform, Salt Spring Island, BC. -Nov 2022-Feb 2023. Pliant. Victoria Arts Council’s Window Gallery at Studio 531 Architects, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2022-Dec 2023. Reposition. Ministry of Casual Living’s Window Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-July 2018-ongoing. Interweave. Lobby of the Cowichan Community Center, Duncan, BC.
-Jan-March 1998. Water and Architecture. Stauffer Library at Queens University, Kingston, ON.
SOLO SHOWS
-March 2025. Conversing Gestures. Little Fernwood Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-December 2024. Ject. The Vault Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-July-Sept 2024. Imprints. VAC airport Satellite Gallery, Saanich. BC.
-Sept-Oct 2024. Conversing Gestures. Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC.
-May-June 2022. FOUR-FOUND. arc-hive artist-run centre, Victoria, BC.
-Sept-Oct 2021. Timber Timbre. Cedar Hill Art Gallery, Saanich, BC.
-Apr 2018. Out of Seen. The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Jan 2013. Impressions: Art, Craft, Poetry. Martin Bachelor Gallery, Victoria, BC.
GROUP SHOWS
-June-Sept 2025. Small Works Show and Sale. AGGV, Victoria, BC.
-April-May 2025. Shifting Ground. Dundarave Print Workshop and Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
-Aug-Sept 2024. Palimpsest. Metchosen Art Pod, Metchosen, BC.
-March 2024. PRINT: imPRESSions. Arc-hive artist-run centre, Victoria, BC.
-July-Aug 2023. Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC.
-Apr-May 2022. Extractions: Resources Through an Artistic Lens. Coquitlam Heritage Atrium, Coquitlam, BC.
-Jan-Feb 2021. Eco Echo. Victoria Arts Council’s ‘Vault’ Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-Nov-Feb 2020. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-July-Aug 2019. Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC.
-May-July 2019. Alternator Artmart. Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC.
-Apr. 2019. Imprint. Fort Gallery, Fort Langley, BC.
-Mar-Apr 2019. Luminescence IV. Deer Lake Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC.
-Apr 2018. Harmonized Motion. Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Mar 2018. Under/Where? The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Nov 2017-Jan 2018. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2015-Jan 2016. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-Aug 2015. Decored. Martin Bachelor Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-May-June 1999. Headlock. Union Gallery/Ontario Hall, Kingston, ON.
-Dec 1996-Jan 1997. Cruz. Union Art Gallery, Kingston, ON.
-Sept 1995. Emergence/See. Definitely Superior Artist Run Centre, Thunder Bay, ON.
RESIDENCIES
-Aug 2025. Intervene- Acting as host and participant, facilitated by STEPS Public Art. Mill Bay, BC.
-June 2024. Joya. Vélez Blanco, Spain.
-May 2024. Empire of Dirt. Creston, BC.
-Aug 2023. RECLAIM. Pat Martin Bates Gallery with The Victoria Arts Council and STEPS Public Art. Victoria, BC.
-Aug 2022. Outlier (Ou Gallery). Gabriola Island, BC.
NOTABLE ACTIVITIES
-2024-ongoing. Member of the Public Art Advisory Committee, District of Tofino, BC.
-2024-2026. Member of the Urban Design Roster. Nanaimo, BC.
-Feb 2023. ‘Touch’ Creative Mornings Talk. Victoria, BC, and broadcast globally.
-2022-ongoing. Member of the Victoria Print Society
-Dec 2010–April 2012. Owner, Creative Director and Artist, Points Art Gallery, Duncan.
-2004-ongoing. Owner, Operator and Creative Director of Alternative Woodworks Ltd.
EDUCATION
-1996-1999. Bachelor of Fine Arts (accredited) Queens University.
-1995-1996. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Lakehead University.
PRESS
-October 6, 2024. Coast Reporter. Interview and article about Conversing Gestures at GPAG.https://www.coastreporter.net/
-August 10, 2024. CHEK news. Speaking about the role of Adage in Oak Bay’s Sculpture walk
-November 30, 2023. CHLY Midcoast Morning Program. Speaking about Compelling Agency- podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/art-around-town/id1557194219?i=1000637209049
-July 10, 2018. Interview on CBC radio 90.5 in Victoria. Speaking about Interweave at the Island Savings Centre
-July 18, 2018. Interview and article for Interweave on Chek News, Victoria. www.cheknews.ca/cut-down-legacy-tree-in-duncan-revived-as-art-471312/
-June 29, 2018. Cowichan Valley Citizen. Article written about Interweave.www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/disputed-maple-reborn-at-island-savings-centre-in-duncan-as-art-piece-2/
-January 2013, April 2018, November 2020 and January 2024. Cowichan Valley Voice, ‘Talking Arts’ featured Artist, one-page written description of recent creative ventures with illustrations.