Public Art

COMPELLING AGENCY 2023
Powder-coated aluminum and cedar. 103 x 37 x 6"
Located at the corner of Wallace and Fitzwilliam in Nanaimo.

Compelling Agency draws attention to the connective value that we have to wood as a resource, and, in turn, our relationship to the environment. Its message is reinforced for viewers as they observe the natural weathering and evolution of the sculpture over the years it’s on display.

Press:
-CHLY Midcoast Morning Program, November 30, 2023: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/art-around-town/id1557194219? i=1000637209049

INTERWEAVE 2018
Stained and Lacquered Western Maple. 102 x 76 x 78”. Located in the lobby of the Cowichan Community Centre, Duncan, BC.

Interweave was commissioned by the Cowichan Community Centre as a way to reconcile the grief and controversy that the community felt for the removal of a heritage tree on the property, the timber of which became the sculpture. Inspired by the tree’s hollow trunk, I worked to recreate its essence as a place as well as a space. It required lots of creative problem-solving and joinery, as well as the building of a solar kiln, to dry the timber.

Press:
-CBC Radio 90.5 in Victoria, July 10, 2018.
-Chek News, Victoria. July 18, 2018. www.cheknews.ca/cut-downlegacy-tree-in-duncan-revived-asart- 471312/
-Cowichan Valley Citizen. June 29, 2018. https:// www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/disputedmaplereborn-at-island-savings-centre-in-duncan-asart-piece-784106

FLUENCE 2025
Powder-coated aluminum and parallel-strand beams 8' x16'. Located at Westwood Lake Park, Nanamio.

Commissioned by the City of Nanaimo, Fluence pairs the effects of laminated wood beams and green powder-coated aluminum to examine our relationship to a forest and how we engage with it. With particular consideration for the value of trees, the artwork speaks to the surroundings of Westwood Lake, making connections with the land and eliciting adventure into the park.

CONTINUUM 2025
Plexiglass, aluminum, torched plywood, and pressure-treated lumber with LED lighting. 14’ x 14’ x 8’

Continuum is a pixelated representation of a forest that considers the value of timber to foster a holistic relationship with the environment. Located in Maffeo Sutton Park, Nanaimo, as part of the City's Luminous Paths 150th Anniversary.

ADAGE 2024
Cedar, powder-coated aluminum. 72 x 26 x 26”.

Installed in the Municipality of Oak Bay, Victoria, BC, for the Arts Alive 2024 program. Responding to the theme ‘Beyond the Surface’, it explores the qualities of wood as found in both natural and built environments, and its impact on the imagination. The exposed growth rings reflect upon its time on display, the wood making an account of the environment as it aged. In a habitat shaped by the effects of Climate Change, Adage fosters a relationship with the landscape by connecting with the axioms of home in ways that are instinctively obvious but often overlooked.

REPOSITION, 2022
Print on craft paper in a painted frame, cedar slab block-print with painted stick legs. Various dimensions.

Installed in the Ministry of Casual Living’s Window Gallery, Millie’s Lane, Victoria, BC. November 16, 2022, to December 19, 2023. Reposition employs the gestural values of wood to consider the material’s essence. Placed within the architecture of the MoCL’s Window Gallery, the morphology of the form behaves like a specimen to stage an appraisal of its making. The work demonstrates how the characteristics of wood can initiate a lively narrative between planar space and the natural world to explore the value of wood and its influence on our surroundings.

RECONVERSION 2023.
Pressure-treated wood, painted steel drum, LED lights.
101 x 35 x 35”

Installed for three nights of the inaugural N!GHT L!GHT Festival in the Victoria Park neighbourhood in Calgary, AB. Reconversion was fashioned to reveal the embedded features of pressure-treated wood and draw attention to its natural essence by highlighting what was found in the abstract assemblage using tropes of green. Situated in the heart of the city, it created a dialogue between the man-made and natural environment.

ENDLESSNESS 2023
Cedar Log, paint, Allthingy plinth. 50 x 48 x 96”.

Allthingy is a Public Art project curated by the award-winning Germaine Koh. Endlessness was created as part of the Reclaim Public Art Residency, which was facilitated by Germaine and hosted by Steps Public Art and the Victoria Arts Council. The installation was an exercise in the mechanics of shaping wood, considering the temporal nature of existence. Endlessness appreciates the Allthingy platform as a place to share and celebrate, resonating with the legacy of a tree, its circumstances, and the materiality of its making. It was located at the trailhead for Mount Erskin on Salt Spring Island, BC, between September and October 2023.

PLIANT 2022
Maple, painted spruce studs. 104 x 37 x 41”

Commissioned by the Victoria Arts Council to respond to their Satellite Window Gallery, located at Studio 531 Architects, View Street, Victoria, BC, from November 15, 2022, to February 24, 2023. Pliant draws upon wood’s expressive attributes in conjunction with the particulars of the window gallery to flex between organic and geometric lines. Shaped by wood’s gestures, the sculpture invites viewers to consider how the essence of wood is crafted into the framework of our buildings. This inspires narratives for all the materials present.