artist residen*c
We are excited to announce our first two artist micro-residency recipients! We are looking forward to having both artists at Studio C and hope you all can join us for their Open Studio events to meet the artists and view their new work.
The residency is designed to offer artists time and space to experiment, create, and connect within a supportive and safe environment. This is a fully sponsored micro-residency with private access to the studio and yard. Studio C is a dynamic studio and gallery space that fosters creativity and collaboration across various artistic disciplines and we are dedicated to supporting artistic practice, exploration, and expression with our regular art exhibitions and events.
What We Provide:
Access to our studio facilities 9am-10pm daily during residency period.
Curator visit with Leah Taylor and jake moore from the CAG/KAG.
Documentation of residency and artwork, as well as headshots by Carey Shaw.
Opportunity to present or discuss your work-in-progress at the end of the residency, in an open-studio event or artist talk.
Learn more about the artist below.
Rachel Ormshaw
Open Studio
Saturday March 8, 2-4 pm, refreshments + snacks
Rachel Ormshaw is an interdisciplinary artist whose work moves between sculpture, sound, and video. Weaving is a constant, both as a material practice and as a way of thinking that binds together found objects, cast metals, wax, and field recordings into layered explorations of craft, memory, and transformation.
Drawn to materials that hold histories, she considers the ways in which objects accumulate meaning over time, questioning the boundaries between use and value, permanence and impermanence. Sound functions as another form of collection, gathered with the same instinct as the objects she incorporates or cloth she weaves, an archive of moments, distorted and reassembled.
Ormshaw holds a Bachelor of Design in Textile Design from OCAD University and a Master’s in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. Her work lingers in the in-between spaces: tactile and ephemeral, personal and universal, solid and dissolving.
Breanne Bandur
Open Studio: Work in Progress
Wednesday Feb 19, 7-9 pm
Open Studio
Sunday Feb 23, 2-4 pm, refreshments + snacks
Breanne Bandur (b. 1993, Simcoe, Ontario) is an emerging visual artist currently based in Saskatoon. Breanne holds a Diploma in Fine Arts from Dawson College (Montréal, 2012), a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University (Halifax, 2015), and an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, 2021).
Breanne’s practice is rooted in her understanding of drawing as a process-based art form with strong ties to intuition, as well as ways of knowing, feeling, and being. She considers drawing as a channel through which one can access ways of knowing by engaging in dialogue with the immersive power of mark making. This philosophical grounding within and relationship to the medium serves as the conceptual framework from which Breanne works, and is the catalyst for her artistic practice. Her drawings are large-scale, gestural, mixed-media works that engage in the complexities of formal visual art language, as well as a wide range of material exploration.
*Applications are now closed. Please follow our socials for upcoming open calls.