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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Couples, NorVA, Flin Flon - painting, video (on-line exhibit Covid-19)
2018 Couples, Video Pool Studio, Wpg - video installation, painting
2017 Handling Chaos, touring rural Manitoba, the Manitoba Arts Network - painting
Golden Prairie Arts Council, Carmen, MB,
Burrows Trails Arts Council, McCreary, MB
Pembina Hills Arts Council, Morden, MB
Fort la Reine Museum, Portage La Prairie, MB
2016 Aim True, Video Pool Media Arts Studio, Winnipeg, MB - painting, drawing, blog
2015 Experientials, Video Pool Studio, Winnipeg MB - painting, video
installation
2014 Handling Chaos, Wasagaming Community Arts Centre - Wasagaming MB,
painting
1993 My House, White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ont - painting and sculpture
1990 Snapshots & Notes, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC - painting
1989 Ribbons, The Perel Gallery, Vancouver, BC - painting
A Garden Of..., The Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC - sculpture and painting
1988 Queen of Puddings, Artspeak, Vancouver, BC - photo collage and texts
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Mothership, Artist Mothers Group at MAWA, painting
2018 Fractured Portrayals of Motherhood, Artist Mothers Group at MAWA, painting
2017 Like Mother, Like Child, Artist Mothers Group at MAWA, Winnipeg MB - drawing,
photo
2016 Order Disorder, Artist Mothers Group at MAWA, Winnipeg MB - painting
2015 What’s for Supper?, Artist Mothers Group at MAWA, Winnipeg MB - painting
Frayed Edges, Fringe pop up gallery, Winnipeg MB - painting
2014 Winter Mothering, Artist Mothers Group at MAWA, Winnipeg MB - painting
Mothering on the Fringe, Fringe pop up gallery, Winnipeg MB - painting
Mothering Children in Performance, Centennial Concert Hall,Wpg, MB - painting
2013 Daily-ness, Artist Mothers Group at MAWA, Winnipeg MB - painting and drawing
1999 Working Space, Ace Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB - photo collage
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Canada (Wallpaper video ©1995)
Surrey Art Gallery, BC (They Met In a Garden video ©1990)
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
2020/ 2018 Teaching Painting and Drawing, Forum Art Centre, Wpg, BB
2018/2019 Mentor for Foundation Mentorship Program, MAWA, Winnipeg, MB
2010/17 Co-coordinator, Artist Mothers Group at MAWA, Winnipeg, MB
1995-2006 Active Producer Member of Video Pool, Winnipeg, MB
1997/99 Board Member of Ace Art, Winnipeg, MB
1996/97 Mentor: First Video Fund, Video Pool, Winnipeg, MB
1993/95 Active Member of Video Vérité, Saskatoon, SK
1990 Board Member of Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC
EDUCATION
2009, 2012, 2019 Arts West Retreat, Riding Mt., MB. Painting with Steve Gouthro, David Garneau and Lisa Wood
2007 Mid-Career Mentorship program MAWA, with Lorna Brown curator/artist
1983/85 Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
1982 Apprenticeship to potter, Sooke, BC
AWARDS
2019, 15,13 &10 Winnipeg Arts Council, Artists A Grant
2012 &09 Manitoba Arts Council, A Grant
2012 Deep Bay Artist Residency, Clear Lake, MB
2011 Canada Council, A Grant
2010 & 03 Video Pool, Wendy Geller Fund
2007 & 1998 Manitoba Arts Council, Video Project Grant
2005 Manitoba Arts Council, Video Script Development Grant
2001 Canada Council, Video Production Grant
1998 Manitoba Arts Council, Video Script Development Grant
Canada Council, New Media Grant
1997/98 Video Pool, Artist in Residence
Manitoba Arts Council, Explorations Grant, as member of Cause and Effect collective
1995-96 Video Pool, Media Production Fund
1995 Saskatchewan Arts Board, Media Arts Grant
1991 Canada Council, Project Grant
ARTICLES
Jen Zoratti, Art and Being a Mom can Co-Exist, Winnipeg Free Press. May 6, 2016
Olivia Michalczuck, A Mother’s (Artistic) Intuition, The Manitoban. November 10, 2015
Alison Gilmore, Mother’s Art will Satisfy Even Picky Eaters, Winnipeg Free Press, May
09, 2015
Belinda Griffiths, Moments of Emotional Honesty, Artnews NEW ZEALAND, p.104-107
Autumn 2015
Colleen Bready, Moms Honoured in New Art Exhibit CTV News, May 9, 2014
Jared Story, Mothers of Invention, Winnipeg Free Press, Canstar Community News
Online Edition, May 6, 2014.
MAWA Artist Mother, Winnipeg Shaw TV, May 2013
Melanie Dennis Unrau. Play, Battling: Representing Resistant Mothers with
Mothers Who Refuse to Choose, Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. Vol. 3 No. 2. pp. 17-32, Fall/Winter, 2012
Amy Karlinsky, Songs of Innocence: Brenna George, Poolside, Video Pool Inc., 2005
ART RELATED ACTIVITIES
2014 May 2nd,Co-lecturer with Melanie Dennis Unrau and Sandra Brown.
The Mother in Women’s Art, First Friday Lecture, Mawa
VIDEOGRAPHY
SOLO PRODUCTIONS
Spring, 2 min HD ©2013
Dawson City International Short Film Festival, 2014
"Criss Cross" Adhere and Deny, Wpg, MB 2013
tight rope walker, 1 min 40 sec.,HD ©2011 an Adhere and Deny commissioned video
"The circus of Objects" Pop Soda's, Wpg, MB 2012
My Winnipeg | Plug In ICA Wpg, MB 2012
Winnipeg to Saskatoon, 2 min 20 sec.,HD ©2009
CAMPER: Bike-in Cinema, TRUCK,Calgary, Ab 2013
NAC Prairie Scene Festival, Ottawa,Ont. 2011
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC. 2010
WNDX festival, Winnipeg, MB 2009
dustpan, 2 min. 36 sec, HD ©2009
The Victoria Film Festival, B.C., 2010
Allsorts, 4 min 30 sec.,HD ©2009
Cinematheque, Wpg. MB 2009
Well, 1 min., HD ©2008
Silverscope, Cinematheque’s 25th Anniversary, Wpg. MB, 2008
Winter, 2 min. mini DV © 2005
WNDX festival, Winnipeg, MB 2006
Dawson City Int’l Film Festival, YK 2006
Modernism and Manitoba Media Artists, Wpg Art Gallery, MB 2006
Photophobia 8, Hamilton ON 2006
Crowds Project Video Pool, Winnipeg 2003
Allsorts, 1 min., mini DV ©2001
Candies and Apples 11/12/2003
Deep Junior, Act a little Crazy, 2min, 30 sec. ©2003
Sugar and Splice, WFG Cinematheque, MB 2006
Open, 2 min., mini DV ©2002
K5, Mito, Japan, 2005
Video Pool / Park Theatre, Winnipeg, 2005
Art Autonomy Network, Yokohama, Japan, 2005
Gallery Soap, KitaKyushu, Japan, 2005
Remo, Osaka, Japan, 2005
Centre for Art Tapes / NSCAD, Halifax, NS, 2005
Metro Cinema, Edmonton, Alberta, 2005
Paved / AKA, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2005
Catacomb Microcinema Wpg. MB.2003
Trippin’ with the Georges, 40 min. Beta ©2001
Herland: Calgary, AB
Man Made Structures, 2 min. 26 sec. 3/4 in. ©1997
Set Forth Hopeful, 7 min. 3/4 in. ©1997
Wallpaper, 6 min. Beta ©1995
Herland, Calgary, AB 1997
Between Time & Spaces, Centre D'Art, Basse Normandie1996
Sleep, 3 min. Beta ©1995
Walking and Being media exhibition, Video Pool, Ace Art, Wpg. 2006
Everson Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2005
Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal, 2005
Paved Arts, Saskatoon, 2005
Shameless Shorts, WTN, Wpg 1996
L. Bird, 7 min. Beta ©1994
Winnipeg Folk Festival, Winnipeg, 2005
SNAC, MB, 2003
Entry Points: Video In Informative Culture,
Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK 1994
Red Riding Hood, 6 min. Beta ©1994
Calaboose, Montreal, PQ, 2018
Video Vérité, Saskatoon, SK 1994