Unlikely Selfies
“[Selfies] are usually flattering and made to appear casual” – Selfies, on Wikipedia
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Art projects.
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So tired.
A Day in the Life Of
Solo Exhibition at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery On June 27, 2015, I recorded my entire day. The resulting sketches, videos, photos and notes are the inspiration for A Day in the Life Of. For this exhibition, I transcribed moments typically viewed as private into a lyrical installation that questions how the intimacy of a… Read More
My face, bird face
My face, bird face is a series of watercolours, which investigate the ways we anthropomorphize animals through our own impersonation of them. In this series, birds are depicted with their natural expressions while I conjure emotions and contort my face to look like them. The birds I have painted (turkey vulture, hawk, owl, and goose)… Read More
Getting Dressed Animation
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Every day I wake up Animation
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What we saw while we were driving
What we saw while we were driving, 8 watercolours combined into a short looping animation (gif), 2016
Every day I wake up Installation Shots
Every day I wake up is an installation exploring the actions and experiences of everyday life. Through watercolour and video, April White sensationalizes and memorializes a repetitive non-event: waking up. In his anthology The Everyday, Stephen Johnstone states that an aesthetic focus on everyday life may bring “overlooked aspects of lived experience into visibility.” Here… Read More
CHARLIES LADDER
CHARLIES LADDER is a project that I completed while sitting in a tree stand, watching for deer in Manitoulin Island, Ontario. The tree stand has a plaque inside it that says “CHARLIES LADDER.” The stand is named after a ladder my great uncle Charlie owned, which is leaning against a nearby tree.
In the spirit of gift giving
A series of miniature framed watercolours based on and given to artist friends.