lara melnik
polychrome

Chris Reid
Bunny Days

Veronica Verkley
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In love with all of nature’s colours, the Whitehorse artist confronts the winter blues through a series of “colour callisthenics”, happily blending and rolling her polymer clay through the short days. She dreams her way through the darkness, across meadows of pink and orange daisies, purple hued mountains and rainbow coloured mushrooms.

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Manitoba artist Chris Reid fills her works with images of cats, planes, screaming toast and buildings on chicken legs or, in this case, bunnies. She places her big-eared characters in situations that she lives through, sees on television or has observed through a career in social work. In her words: “My work is a metaphor for anxiety, obsessive thought and coping. At the same time it is satirical and cynical, it is playful, colourful and deceptively inviting.”

Veronica Verkley is a Dawson based artist with a wide-ranging practice that spans sculpture, drawing and animatronics, as well as feature film, theatre and animation. Her work ranges from the mechanical to the ethereal, often addressing concepts of a mediated, technologically enhanced Nature. She often juxtaposes our cultural romanticism of the natural world with contemporary technologies and old-school scavenging techniques in order to explore the hopeful beauty of the mundane, the abandoned and the overlooked.