EVIDENCE
Evidence - hand-embroidered
trilobites on eco-printed silk and wool
July
31st to Sept. 2nd, 2011 ~ The EVIDENCE installation
will be mounted at
Roadside
Attractions gallery - 911 Davenport Road, Toronto Canada.
Many
Creationists have a powerful need to cleave to a literal reading of the
Bible. They have concluded that, since the universe was purportedly created
in a single week, fossil evidence of the evolution of life is actually
an elaborate trick designed by God to test their faith. Scientific proof
of a past before recorded history is trumped by their longing for a future
beyond death. Their creative interpretation of the world has evolved from
a need for certainty expounded by literal interpretations of the Word.
Fascinated with the strange and beautiful variations of evidence that
have survived over millions of years, the artist also takes liberties
with truth, colouring her perceptions to assuage her own desires.
Evidence
presents a series of three-dimensional trilobite fossils suspended in
time and space. Each trilobite is hand-embroidered on eco-printed silk
and wool which is then sewn into the shape of rocks. Just as imagination
requires the suspension of disbelief, faith in the beauty of truth is
embodied by this suspended Evidence.
ARADUS
VARIATIONS
Aradus Variations
- embroidered flat bugs on hand-dyed silk & screen printing
August
1st-31st, 2010 ~
ARADUS VARIATIONS
installation will be mounted at
Roadside
Attractions gallery - 911 Davenport Road, Toronto Canada.
Aradus
Variations presents a species of the flat bug family that is native
to the Great Lakes region,
the Aradus robustus. The robustus feeds on fungi found under
the bark of dead oak trees and logs.
This explains their incredibly flattened bodies. Hand embroidered, each
variation becomes a canvas
for moods and feelings evoked by the Great Lakes. Cotton prints and tussah
silk coloured with
natural dyestuffs create the ground for these stitched flat bugs. Screen
printed patterns and images
add another design element. In this way, colour, line and texture transform
the region’s ecosystem
into a sensuous exploration of place and timelessness.
Aradus
Variations (2010) is a part of Aqua
Reliquia, a multi-media installation that combines poetry,
textiles, and soundscapes to evoke the character of the Great Lakes region.
The project was inspired
by stories about the Great Storm of 1913, the worst natural disaster to
ever occur on the Great Lakes,
and has led to an obsession with all aspects of the region.
Click
here for a short slide show.
RAIN
OF FIRE
May
12th to June 6th 2010
~ Gallery 1313 Windowbox Gallery
Rain
of Fire is a new multimedia collaboration between Lynn Harrigan and
Scott M2 that combines
embroidery, poetry and video painting to address the vulnerability of
so many during these times of rapid economic change. Created as part of
their developing Oblique
Poetries series, the piece reflects the emotions of people trapped
by the economic collapse of recent times and the false promises of the
global new world order. Left exposed and unprotected, there is no solace
in the gospels of greed.
Rain
of Fire marks the first installment of Intersections,
a three part series curated by Simone Rojas-Pick and Jessica Nagy, centered
around the concept of the “mash-up”; where two or more voices/mediums/styles
are combined to create a single work. Intersections
is the first phase of the Launch Pad Project for Gallery
1313’s Window Box, featuring 5 emerging curators, running from
May 2010 to April 2011.
Gallery
1313 - 1313A Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M6K 1L8, (416) 536-6778
Hours of Operation: Wednesday - Sunday, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Opening
Reception: Thursday, May 13, 7:00—10: 00 p.m.
MOON
SEA CROSSING
(the play)
Moon Sea Crossing
illustration by Stefan
Valent
One
woman, many hungers, many journeys…
Fertile
Ground Productions
presents MOON SEA CROSSING
July 6th through 15th, 2006
"With
emotions that are echoed by light and language,
Moon Sea Crossing weaves together the plight of the
Irish immigrant, the despair from crushed dreams and
one woman’s strength to rise above it all."
Kellie Maltese - eye
weekly
Original
text by Lynn Harrigan
Adapted for the stage by Angela McMillan and Sarah Schwartz
Directed by Angela McMillan
Starring Sarah Schwartz
Live music by Scott M2 of dreamSTATE
Illustration by Stefan
Valent
MOON
SEA CROSSING premiers at
The
Toronto Fringe Festival 2006
Factory Studio Theatre (Venue 5)
125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide)
Thu,
July 6 @ 8:45 pm - show code: 505
Sat, July 8 @ 6:00 pm - show code: 515
Sun, July 9 @ 12:00 pm - show code: 520
Mon, July 10 @ 11:00 pm - show code: 532
Tue, July 11 @ 1:00 pm - show code: 533
Thu, July 13 @ 7:30 pm - show code: 550
Sat, July 15 @ 5:15 pm - show code: 563
Tickets:
$9 at the door
$10 advance ($8 + $2 SC)
Passes: $6.50 - $8
Running Time: 60 Min.
BREAD
& WATER
Fishing for Secrets
- a diptych created for Lynn's poem Prelude by Linda
Wiebe (2004).
Bread
& Water -
A Multi-media Installation
Exploring One Woman’s Journey
Within These Walls
August
28 – October 24, 2004
Huron
Historic Gaol,
181 Victoria Street N. Goderich, Ontario
(Phone: 519.524.2686)
Opening
Reception: August 27, 2004
The evening performances will involve poetry readings
with live musical accompaniment.
Closing ceremony October 24th, 4:00pm
Bread
& Water is a multi-media installation based on MOON SEA CROSSING
- a collection of poems by Lynn Harrigan which will be published in 2005
by Black Moss
Press. In addition to the poetry, ambient soundscapes by electronic
sound artists dreamSTATE,
black and white photography by Shannon Kroeplin and paintings and sculpture
by Linda
Wiebe will be featured in the installation.
The
poems tell the story of Aina, an Irish woman who immigrated to Canada
with her husband and children in 1846. Aina suffered a breakdown shortly
after her arrival in Huron County and was incarcerated at the Gaol before
being transferred to the temporary lunacy asylum in Toronto. The poems
explore a variety of themes, including mental illness, displacement, hunger,
grief and Irish folklore. A series of evening performances and art workshops
will be announced closer to the opening date.
Join
Lynn's e-mail list to be updated with all the details and to receive
an invitation to the opening reception. The evening performances will
involve poetry readings with live musical accompaniment.
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The
music by dreamSTATE
from
the Bread & Water installation is
now available on their PASSAGE CD.
Click
here to hear the music and to purchase it online as CD or
mp3.
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AS
IT HAPPENS
As
It Happens by Lynn Harrigan and
ambient soundscape artists dreamSTATE
appears on the Deep Wireless 1 CD of radio art.
Complete information on the CD can be found here.
Play
or download an MP3 of As It Happens here.
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