The Union Gallery is pleased to announce its new student group exhibitions: Groundwork, featuring work by fourth year BFA students; and Islands and The Woods by third year Queen’s Music student Jeremy Kerr. Please join us for the opening reception of these shows on Friday, March 10, 2017, from 5-6:30pm. Light refreshments will be served. MAIN SPACE | GroundworkThe Union Gallery is delighted to present Groundwork, a juried exhibition from Queen’s University’s 4th year Bachelor of Fine Art candidates. Asking how we learn through art, this exhibition explores arts-based inquiry through an engagement with diverse themes and fields including psychology and environmental studies. Employing a variety of processes, the artists in Groundwork offer new ways of seeing and understanding the world around us, through a practice of knowledge that is not only reflective but generative.Artists featured in the exhibition: Nicole Emond, Sonya Fesiak, Kaitlin Groat, Alison Kruse and Emma White. PROJECT ROOM | Islands and The WoodsJeremy Kerr’s Islands and The Woods uses computer technology to generate an audio installation consisting of two soundscapes that are based on memories of places from the artist’s past. Each soundscape incorporates a selection of personal field and studio recordings and sounds sourced from the Internet. Islands features a plethora of bird and frog calls gathered from locations as diverse as Barbados, Hawaii, Singapore and Japan. The Woods on the other hand features many environmental sounds gathered from colder locations such as Ontario, the United Kingdom and Russia including coyotes, wolves and varying wind and snow sounds. The installation offers the visitor an ever-changing sonic rendering of these two environments. A sound installation by Jeremy Kerr. Artist Biographies:Nicole Emond is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily in woodcut, stone lithography, plate lithography, woodcarving, and metal and plaster sculptural processes. Originally from Northern Ontario, she is currently a BFA (Honours) candidate at Queen’s University where her thesis focuses on the complexity between nature and the industrial world. She holds a certificate in International Studies and prior to Queen’s she studied at the Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, UK. Her work has been exhibited throughout Ontario including Kingston, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie.Sonya Fesiak is a Fine Art student at Queen’s University. Her work is inspired and driven by the enigmatic nature of the human mind, which she has had the opportunity to study extensively through her minor in psychology. Her art practice builds on this knowledge by exploring psychological phenomena through various visual mediums.Kaitlin Groat is a multidisciplinary student artist pursuing her BFA at Queen’s University. Currently in her fourth year, her thesis work examines hyper-consumption and mass consumerism primarily through the mediums of screen print and lithography.Alison Kruse is a contemporary Canadian painter. Heavily influenced by Nordic painting, Alison's work aims to invoke uneasiness in the viewer. Her high expressionistic style is the result of experimenting with brushwork, colour, and content. She is currently interested in boredom and empty time and how this affects mental health. Alison has her BFA (Honours) and a minor in art history from Queen's University.Emma White is a multidisciplinary student artist pursuing her BFA at Queen’s University. Currently in her fourth year, her thesis work examines hyper-consumption and mass consumerism primarily through the mediums of screen print and lithography.
