performing nature by AimÉe Henny Brown

As a project-based artist, I activate printed matter in flat, spatial, and time sensitive manners. Archives, historical documents, and photo-based media are investigated through the practice and methodology of collage. Analogue collage - cut and paste - encourages a liminal space where print and paper transcend their material qualities and shift from their initial meanings. My practice addresses both the history and fate of printed matter as tangible elements in a virtual era. Inspired by architectural structures and traditional landscape photography, my collage works are assembled from hand-cut, 20th century paper publications. Close observation of light, shadow, colour, and resolution of printed matter from this era inform the meticulous components and compositions. I choose collage as a way of making so that I can challenge recorded histories and re-envision known terrains. In the series ‘Performing Nature’, I am colliding photographic fragments of exterior, ‘natural’ phenomena with domestic interior elements featuring patterns inspired by flora and fauna. The composite ex/in-terior sites foster a dialogue about the meaning and romanticism of the word ‘nature’, at a moment when the living world is deeply entangled with human intervention.

Aimée Henny Brown, an artist and educator of settler ancestry, completed her BFA at the University of Alberta and obtained her Master’s in Fine and Media Arts at NSCAD University. Aimée’s artistic practice engages archives, research, and printed matter to question historical content within her contemporary art practice. She has received several awards and grants, notably the Joseph Beuys Scholarship for Artistic Merit and several Canada Council Production Grants. Her collages, drawings, performances and bookworks have been presented nationally and internationally, with group shows in Japan, Germany, Scotland, Knoxville, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and solo exhibitions across Canada. She has attended numerous artist residencies and presents regularly to artists, students, and international audiences. Represented by the Vancouver Art Gallery Art Rental and Sales program and Ian Tan’s Online Art Gallery (OAG), Aimée is an Assistant Professor: foundations, 3D and extended media with the University of the Fraser Valley.

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