Finding Home: Knowledge, Collage and the Local Environments

Gladstone Hotel 2nd Fl Public Spaces
Exhibition Dates: Nov. 23 - 26, 2006 12-5PM
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 25, 2006 7-10PM

An art installation and illustrated text by Kathleen Vaughan

Exploring theories and practices of creating a feeling of being 'at home' in the world, Finding Home is based on a walk with Auggie the dog through the Toronto neighbourhood around Bathurst and St. Clair. The installation is a mix of cultural and urban theory, history and geography, as well as ecology--our word 'ecology' being derived from the Greek oikos , meaning house or home. For this inquiry, home is a state of being as much as a structure to live within.

Using media as diverse as large-scale charcoal drawings, textile maps and sculptural objects, archival and contemporary photographs, paint and wax, Finding Home is a creation of untraditional collage.

This work is the dissertation component of Kathleen's PhD in Education from York University, Toronto, and is the first doctoral dissertation in the Faculty of Education that encompasses a visual art installation as well as a text.

Kathleen is a visual artist, writer, and teacher whose work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. She loves Toronto, and especially walking its streets, parks, and ravines in the company of her standard poodle, Auggie.

For further information, contact kathleen@akaredhanded.com or visit www.akaredhanded.com