2018 - 2019 Artist in Residence
Aileen Penner
Aileen Penner is an emerging mixed-media artist and encaustic painter based in Victoria, BC. Her formal training is as a writer and poet and it is her love of language, science and nature that informs and inspires her work. Themes in her work centre on loss: loss of species, loss of family, trauma and where to place our collective chaos and grief. She is heavily influenced and curious about scientific ways of understanding the world and she is equally interested in what goes into the “scientific method,” as what is left out. Her work has been exhibited at the Fortune Gallery, the North Vancouver Community Art Gallery, Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Steveston, and the VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver. She was the Artist in Residence at Camosun College this past summer working on a series of cyanotypes for a solo show she will have of her work at Xchanges Gallery in Victoria, BC on October 5, 2018.
While in residence, Aileen will be working on a series of mixed-media and collaged panels that look at the museum and natural history and ask what role humans play in this (un)telling. She will draw on her love of scientific ways of knowing and a collection of natural history journals gifted to her by her science mentor, Jay Ingram, in creating objects the viewer can interact with.
www.aileenpenner.com
While in residence, Aileen will be working on a series of mixed-media and collaged panels that look at the museum and natural history and ask what role humans play in this (un)telling. She will draw on her love of scientific ways of knowing and a collection of natural history journals gifted to her by her science mentor, Jay Ingram, in creating objects the viewer can interact with.
www.aileenpenner.com