Genevieve Robertson
Genevieve Robertson is an interdisciplinary visual artist and curator based in British Columbia, Canada.
With a background in environmental studies and resource labour, Robertson’s work seeks to engage with the complexities of our relations to land and water in a time of large-scale industrial exploitation and climate precarity.[1][2] Her work draws links between biology, geology, environmental studies, and contemporary art through site-specific research in the Kootenays, the Salish Sea, and the Fraser and Columbia Rivers.[1][2] In her more recent research and art practice, Robertson expresses concerned for the way that waterways and their silt production is affected by damming projects, and the environmental disruption and destruction these projects cause for coastlines.[3]
Education[edit]
Robertson holds a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2016) in Vancouver, British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University (previously the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) (2009).
Art Career[edit]
Robertson has participated in residencies and exhibitions across the US and Canada.[4] Much of Robertson's research is based on visits, encounters, and sustained interactions with individuals in the geographic areas where she works. This includes people who have scientific knowledge, resource extraction backgrounds, and ancestral relationships with the land.[5]
She uses organic, found materials in her water colour paintings and drawings, including bitumen, blue-green algae, seawater, forest-fire derived charcoal, graphite, calcium carbonite, and silt. These are gathered by the artist during walks or hikes, collected during visits to mines, or received as gifts. These unconventional materials are suspended in water and seawater and laid out to dissolve, dry, and affix to the paper surface. The chemical reactions of these materials as they combine and fuse produce distinct textures on the surface of the drawings.[5]
With the media that she uses, Robertson provides a direct link between her works, the land from which the materials were sourced, and the resource politics of the respective regions.[5]
Robertson’s professional work also involves writing, curation, and arts administration. From 2018-2019, Robertson served as Executive Director of the Oxygen Art Centre, an artist run centre in Nelson, British Columbia.[6][7]
Exhibitions[edit]
Solo exhibitions[edit]
- Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada, 2020.[2][8][9][10]
- Carbon study: walking in the dark, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2019.[11][12][13]
- Call and Response, Milk Glass Co., Toronto, ON, Canada, 2014
Group exhibitions[edit]
- Spill, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2019.[14][15][16] Still Running Water is a video work which traces the Columbia River nearly 2,000 kilometres from its headwaters in British Columbia to the alluvial plain at the mouth of the river, on the border between Washington and Oregon.[17][16][18]
- Art and Industry, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2018[19]
- If the river ran upwards, Walter Phillips Gallery Main Space, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2018[20][21]
- The Pacific, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2017-2018[22]
- River Relations, Touchstones Museum, Nelson, BC, Canada, 2017[23][24]
- An Absolute Movement, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2017[25][26]
- Drawing Landscapes, PopUp Newton Gallery + Creative Hub, Surrey, BC 2016[27]
Publications[edit]
- Looking Through a Hole in the Earth, Exhibition Catalogue, Burnaby Art Gallery, 2020 ISBN 9781927364376 Search this book on
. - "Genevieve Robertson: Wrack Zone," Alterity, no. 6 (February 2020). ISSN 2514-1961 ISSN 2514-197X
- "Still Running Water," in "Shoring" issue of the broadsheet The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Iss. 4, May 2019), pp. 4-5.[17]
- beholden: a poem as long as a river (cover art), by Fred Wah and Rita Wong, Talon Books, 2018 ISBN 9781772012118 Search this book on .
- Once in Blockadia (illustrations), by Stephen Collis, Talon Books, 2017 ISBN 9781772010152 Search this book on .
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Genevieve Robertson". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth". www.burnaby.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ↑ Lederman, Marsha (October 19, 2019). "Art that can jar you out of a slumber: Several B.C. exhibits are challenging visitors to rethink the world around them". The Globe and Mail (Online). p. R.5. Retrieved March 15, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "GENEVIEVE ROBERTSON | Space118". www.space118.com. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Genevieve Robertson : looking through a hole in the earth. Cane, Jennifer; Roy, Marina. Burnaby, British Columbia: Burnaby Art Gallery. 2020. pp. 7, 22, 23. ISBN 978-1-927364-37-6. OCLC 1134608273. Search this book on
- ↑ "Oxygen Art Centre Welcomes New Executive Director". Galleries West. January 26, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Executive Director Departs at the End of August". us2.campaign-archive.com. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
- ↑ "Art in a time of climate crisis". Burnaby Now. February 6, 2020. p. A.26. Retrieved March 15, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Arts calendar". The Burnaby Now. February 27, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Huan, Zhang (Feb 8, 2020). "Art Scene: Using found materials; images capture 100 years of ideas". The Vancouver Sun (Online). Retrieved Mar 11, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "carbon study: walking in the dark". accessgallery.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ↑ "Carbon Study: Walking in the Dark by Genevieve Robertson". Femme Art Review. 2019-03-12. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ↑ Argueta, Fiorela (2019). "Environmental Memories: Genevieve Robertson's Carbon Drawings at Access Gallery" (PDF). UBC Undergraduate Journal of Art History & Visual Culture. 10: 60–64.
- ↑ "Spill". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ↑ "SAG marks 20 years of digital art programming". The Vancouver Sun (Online). August 24, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 16.0 16.1 Woodend, Dorothy (2019-09-06). "'Spill': A New Exhibit Examines Humanity's Abuse of Water". The Tyee. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Robertson, Genevieve (May 2019). "Still Running Water" (PDF). The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 04 (SHORING): 4–5.
- ↑ Woodend, Dorothy (2019-09-23). "Spill". Galleries West. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
- ↑ Sharman, Lindsey V. (2018-07-11). "Art and Industry". Galleries West. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ↑ "If the river ran upward". Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Gómez-Barris, Macarena (2017). The extractive zone: social ecologies and decolonial perspectives. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-8223-6875-5. OCLC 962232268. Search this book on
- ↑ "The Pacific -- Libby Leshgold Gallery". libby.ecuad.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ↑ "2017". Touchstones Nelson. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ↑ Community (2017-09-09). "Touchstones Nelson to host group show, River Relations". Nelson Star. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- ↑ "archive | Or Gallery". www.orgallery.org. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ↑ "Listings". The Vancouver Sun. July 13, 2017. p. B.12. Retrieved March 15, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Zillich, Tom (May 5, 2016). "PopUp gallery springs to life with art shows starting May 13". The Tri - Cities Now. p. A.28. Retrieved March 15, 2020. Unknown parameter
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