Puppets and Sculptures
From the early 80s until 2005 I created puppets and masks for theatre productions. The "Tales of Hoffman" was my first puppet production. In 1987 I was commissioned by the Guelph Spring Festival committee to create puppets for the Opera, "Crazy to Kill", a production by John Beckwith and James Reaney. I also designed and built the puppets for Theatre New Brunswick's production "The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe".
Sculptures for the Womandala series came out of personal identity issues in relation to the politics of the body. I used my face as the mask and created a juxtaposition between my inner turmoil and the outside gilded personae. These sculptures were exhibited at The National Exhibition Center in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and traveled to the Robert McGlauglin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The Guardian sculptures were predominantly white fantasy figures that I created for a solo exhibition at the University Art Gallery at California State University, Sacramento and later at the Fine Art Centre in Sacramento in 2005.
From the early 80s until 2005 I created puppets and masks for theatre productions. The "Tales of Hoffman" was my first puppet production. In 1987 I was commissioned by the Guelph Spring Festival committee to create puppets for the Opera, "Crazy to Kill", a production by John Beckwith and James Reaney. I also designed and built the puppets for Theatre New Brunswick's production "The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe".
Sculptures for the Womandala series came out of personal identity issues in relation to the politics of the body. I used my face as the mask and created a juxtaposition between my inner turmoil and the outside gilded personae. These sculptures were exhibited at The National Exhibition Center in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and traveled to the Robert McGlauglin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The Guardian sculptures were predominantly white fantasy figures that I created for a solo exhibition at the University Art Gallery at California State University, Sacramento and later at the Fine Art Centre in Sacramento in 2005.
