Hexagon Special Projects Fellowship Residency Recipient Loree Ovens specializes in intaglio techniques: especially copper etching, aquatint, drypoint and collagraph. Primarily working with Japanese Washi paper and often combining the use of surface design techniques for textiles, Ovens’ fascination with line, pattern, and architecture continues to inspire her work. Ovens studied Fashion Technique and Design at…
Nick Novak Mid-Career Printmaker Residency Recipient Agata Derda was born in Poland to a working-class family. She began her art education at a local youth centre and later studied at the high school of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2010 Derda completed a BFA with Honours in Printmaking at the Galway Mayo Institute of…
Jeannie Thib Emerging Artist Residency Mark Bath is a visual artist from Newfoundland. At Memorial University, he studied Dramatic Literature and Creative Writing and later pursued a Bachelor of Design in Illustration at OCADU. While at OCADU, Bath fell in love with the process of creating copper plate etchings and completed a series of intricately…
Don Phillips Scholarship Residency Recipient Nix Burox is a non-binary trans artist based in Montreal. Interested in process-oriented art, their work references archiving practices and takes the form of modular interactive art objects such as sets of cards, artist books, and installations. Using autobiography as a tool to discuss issues of identity and mental health,…
Visiting Artist Residency Erika DeFreitas is a Scarborough-based multidisciplinary conceptual artist. Placing an emphasis on process, gesture and documentation, her work explores the influence of language and loss on the formation of identity with the use of textile-based works and performative actions, which are photographed. DeFreitas has shown nationally and internationally, including Project Row Houses…
Visiting Artist Residency Sidney Masuga is an interdisciplinary artist working between digital and analogue mediums; she holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Coming from a background in illustration her work utilizes symbol, form and abstraction to articulate her interests in language women’s history, data analysis and metaphysics. Places of recent…
Visiting Artist Residency Tina Helen is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Her artistic practice proposes a synthesis of the practical and the theoretical in the understanding and production of images. She is engaged with questions of urban politics, power structures (economic, social or psychological), image politics, cognitive capital, self-schooling, refusal, migration, autism, autonomy, collective…
Visiting Artist Residency Maura Doyle lives and works in Ottawa. Her multidisciplinary practice has included video, ceramics, sculpture, printed matter and drawing. Her most recent work, titled Gone: Removed public art in Ottawa / Anishinaabeg Aki is an artist’s publication commissioned by the Ottawa Art Gallery. She has exhibited her work across Canada in artist-run…