Shanell
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| Industry | Arts |
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| Location | Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada |
| Introduction | As a youngster, I spent a great deal of time in my grandmothers flea market where I learnt to knit, crochet, sew and I developed an appreciation for vintage items. My grandmother provides me with many raw materials, vintage yarn, re-claimed fabric and craft supply cast offs. I work primarily in textiles, film and sculpture. Recently, my work was shown at the University of Lethbridge, in Snap, crackle, pop, a beautiful catalog produced and it is available from the University of lethbridge Art Gallery. I participated in a Gushul Residency in 2007, organized by Trap\door Artist run centre. I have show my work in Vancover at Gallery gachet, Calgary at the New galley, Saskatoon at the Gordon snelgrove, PAVEDarts and Toronto with the City of Craft. I also worked for PAVED arts in Saskatoon as Assistant Curator. At the Galt Museum and Archives and the Southren Alberta Art Gallery in (SAAG). In various capacities. I have participated on boards and submission Juries for Trap\door Artist Run Centre, AKA Gallery and PAVEDarts. I Graduated with a BFA from the University of Lethbridge in 2006 and a MFA from the University of Saskatchewan in 2010. |
| Interests | Artist Run Centers, Art Education, Canadian Art, Textile Art, Museums, History Underground Comic Books, Making Art, Etsy, Craft fairs, Flea Markets, Junk Stores, Oddities, Death, Photography/Film history, Collecting Vinyl Records, Food, Life Style, Lethbridge, BFA, MFA. |
| Favorite movies | Movies: Delores Clayborn, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer, Return to OZ, Documentary: Disinformation Crumb, Man on a Wire, Mr Death, Fast Cheap and out of Control, TV: Unsolved Mysteries, Breaking Bad, Big Love, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, The Wire, Art 21, First Person |
| Favorite music | Music: Martha and the Muffins, Rough trade, Oingo Boingo, Elvis costello, Joy Division, Supertramp, the Police, Tears for Fears, The Sparks, Devo, Dead Kennedys, Marianne Faithfull, Patty Smith, The pretenders, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Morrissey, Billy Joel, Joe Jackson, Bush Tetras, Nick Lowe, The Bird and the Bee, Justice, Air, The Strokes, AC/DC, Girlschool, Black Sabbath, Blondie, Guns and Roses, Motorhead, Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Waylon Jennings, Carole King, Juice Newton.. Soundtrack: Phantom of the Paradise, |
| Favorite books | Books fiction and Non-Fiction: mutants, Apocalypse culture 1&2, Weegee by Weegee, The Corpse, Death scenes, Earthy remains, The American Way of Death, Stiff, Spook, Boink, The Handmade Market Place, Art and Artifact, Scene of the Crime, Frankenstein, The Dirt, Knitting books, books on Death, Anatomy texbooks, Kafka, Bukowski Comics:portraits from life, epileptic, Persepolis 1&2, the imposter's daughter, Drinking at the Movies, I saw you, Unloveable, Muzzlers Guzzlers and Good Yegs, Escape from Special, A Mess of Everthing, Need More Love, Dori Stories, Make me a Woman, the Beats, Black Hole, Crossed, Preacher |
You have a red jar of cedar chips. Why do moths miss the forest?
The same reason I miss the forest? Maybe.....I guess, I don't know.