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arc.hive currently hosts nine studios supporting the practices of professional artists working in the areas of drawing, installation, mixed media, painting, performance, poetry, printmaking, photography, creative writing and sculpture. Please see details on each artist's practice below.
alison bigg
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Alison Bigg is a contemporary artist working in Victoria, BC. She works with a range of different media including: soap, wax, found objects, painting and printmaking. Alison’s work elicits a visceral response by confronting the viewer with subject matter that isn’t always comfortable to consider/contemplate. Alison’s current work engages the senses with her sculptures that use cast soap, scent, sound and light.
Alison graduated from Emily Carr College of Art in 1989. In 2017 she finished an Independent Studies program at Vancouver Island School of Art. Alison was awarded a People and Places grant for a large project by the City of Victoria (2012) and has had several solo shows in B.C. www.abigg.ca |
laura feeleus
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Laura works mainly as a painter and fibre artist, with forays into printmaking and sculpture and installation. She graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art from the Vancouver Island School of Art in 2010. Themes in her work include nostalgia and a certain playfulness, reflecting imagery of animals, home, travel, and folk art, as interpreted with insights of contemporary craft. She has participated in group shows on the West Coast of Canada and the US since 2005. In 2016, she mounted a well received exhibition of paintings at the Martin Batchelor Gallery in Victoria, BC. She is one of the founding members of arc.hive, and participates regularly with the Surface Design Association, both locally and internationally. http://www.laurafeeleus.ca/ |
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karina kalvaitis
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Karina is a visual artist working in two and three-dimensional media. Her work depicts animals both real and imagined. She creates a sort of parallel world full of personable, loveable, odd and awkward creatures that are familiar yet strange. These silently expressive oddballs act as metaphors for our own states of mind. She in interested in creating art that gets to the heart of human emotions and experiences - while also embracing a sense of the mysterious and unknowable. Karina majored in sculpture at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and later studied theatre prop building at the Banff Centre in Alberta. She has lived in Victoria since 1996 and works as an artist full-time (with short stints in the world of theatre props and sets). karinakalvaitis.com |
kim leslie Kim Leslie is a contemporary visual artist who works primarily as a painter, but employs a range of two and three dimensional media to best express her theme. Kim graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art from the Vancouver Island School of Art in 2017. Her current work explores themes of personal history, memory and the body. Kim has exhibited in group shows locally and in the U.S.
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connie michele morey
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Connie Michele Morey is an artist, writer and teacher whose studio work explores materials and practices that embody interdependent cultural meanings related to gender and ecology through sculpture, installation, contemporary craft, performance & critical-creative writing. Her work is influenced by her childhood experiences living in rural settings surrounded by family traditions of masonry, construction, craft and textiles. Connie received her BFA in Visual Arts from the University of Lethbridge, completed graduate work in Art History, an M.Ed. in Art Education and recently a studio-based PhD at the University of Victoria. She teaches courses and workshops at the University of Victoria and Vancouver Island School of Art and has exhibited and performed locally, across Canada and overseas in Europe, Australia and Malaysia. www.conniemorey.com
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regan rasmussen
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As an artist / educator, Regan’s process is informed by phenomenology - recognizing the significance of attending to daily life experiences and interactions with others to develop themes and images. Her approach to creating and teaching is inspired by the words of cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson: “The way people live their lives in itself is an artistic process: as an artist takes materials, composing them into a workable aesthetic, so do we take disparate parts of our lives, the daily rituals, friendships, transitions, and moments and put them into balance.” Regan explores themes and narratives through drawing, ceramics, sculpture and text. She has studied in Winnipeg (BFA studio art), Saskatoon (BEd) and Victoria (MEd in Arts Education) and teaches studio art / curriculum courses at University of Victoria and in secondary schools. Her art has been exhibited in public and private collections across Canada and in the UK. She is the recipient of national and international teaching awards and serves on boards, conducts workshops and coordinates community arts events to empower others through art. www.reganrasmussen.com |
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sandy voldeng
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Sandy Voldeng was born in Calgary, had a career in commercial real estate and has been sculpting and painting for 20 years. She occasionally, albeit rarely, does commission work. She prefers to create and construct from ideas and thoughts driven by her own inspiration and passions. Some of her work could be viewed as traditional; some as contemporary; and much as exploratory. Her hope is that her art ends up in the hands of those who truly connect with the feeling it seeks to convey. |
jenn wilson
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More information coming soon.
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