Shannon Garden-smith

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Shannon Garden-Smith (she/her) is an uninvited settler of Scottish, Irish, and British heritage and an artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Working across sculpture, installation, and expanded photo practice, she examines the material-social impact of the surfaces that clad our contemporary built world. Often using unconventional materials such as sand and gelatin, her work foregrounds an understanding of matter premised on interdependency, flux, and the finitude of resources—values informed by intersectional feminist new materialist frameworks. Process and an approach to making that refuses bounded, definitive answering in favour of that which is alive and responsive are central to her active studio practice. Garden-Smith has exhibited nationally and internationally with recent projects at the Bows (Mohkínstsis/Calgary, AB), Oxygen Art Centre (Nelson, BC), Franz Kaka (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), Gallery TPW (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), Pumice Raft (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), and TIER: The Institute for Endotic Research (Berlin). Her work is permanently installed at Unity Health Clinic (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON).

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Shannon Garden-Smith (she/her) is an uninvited settler of Scottish, Irish, and British heritage and an artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Working across sculpture, installation, and expanded photo practice, she examines the material-social impact of the surfaces that clad our contemporary built world. Often using unconventional materials such as sand and gelatin, her work foregrounds an understanding of matter premised on interdependency, flux, and the finitude of resources—values informed by intersectional feminist new materialist frameworks. Process and an approach to making that refuses bounded, definitive answering in favour of that which is alive and responsive are central to her active studio practice. Garden-Smith has exhibited nationally and internationally with recent projects at the Bows (Mohkínstsis/Calgary, AB), Oxygen Art Centre (Nelson, BC), Franz Kaka (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), Gallery TPW (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), Pumice Raft (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), and TIER: The Institute for Endotic Research (Berlin). Her work is permanently installed at Unity Health Clinic (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON).

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