PHOTO CREDIT - DAVID GLUNS
I am a visual artist of mixed European ancestry, privileged to be living and working on the tum xula7xw/traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/Sinixt, otherwise known as Nelson, BC. My practice is centred on a deep respect and understanding of Earth, stemming from my former career as a geoscientist. My work is informed by earth’s ongoing processes, unimaginable timescales, and our complex relationship with the geologic materials incorporated into our daily lives. The cultivation of local place attachments and the recognition of vibrancy in rock is a primary focus of my studies. Using drawing, painting, sculpture and textiles, my work invites the viewer to experience textures, patterns and processes found right under foot and offer a personal and intimate connection to the story of Earth.
EDUCATION
1992 Bachelor of Science - Geology
University of Calgary AB
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS
2022 and 2021 Recipient of Canada Council for the Arts- Research and Creation Grant
2022 and 2020 Recipient of CKCA Arts Funding to Communities Grant
2019 to present Oxygen Art Centre, Board Member (Secretary)
2018 Toni Onley Artist Residency - IMA, Wells BC
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Give or Take a Few Million Years Nelson Museum Archives & Gallery, Nelson BC
2022 Give or Take a Few Million Years Tilted Brick Gallery, Creston BC
2021 Overburden: Extraction, Seismic Events and Metamorphosis in a Chaotic Age - (group) Kootenay Gallery, Castlegar BC
2021 View Point-A Fibre-based Exploration of the Natural World - (group) Tilted Brick Gallery, Creston BC
2018 In-Between-Time Kootenay Gallery, Castlegar BC
2018 A Closer Look Gallery 378, Nelson BC
2017 The Green Layer Gallery 378, Nelson BC
2017 Covalence - (group) Langham Gallery, Kaslo BC
2016 Creatures UBC WKTEP Gallery, Nelson BC
2015 Migration Gallery 378, Nelson BC
PUBLICATIONS / BIBLIOGRAPHY
Give or Take a Few Million Years, Exhibition Catalogue, Nelson Museum, Archives & Gallery, November 18, 2023 to February 24, 2024
Andrews Grace, Susan, Carol Wallace: The feminization of geology. ARTiculate Spring/Summer 2022, Issue #41, pp. 12
Holyoak, Jim, Genevieve Robertson, and Carol Wallace, Walking in the Dark. Nelson: Artist Book, 2020.