Saturday 25 January
2-3PM
670 Fort Street
Victoria Arts Council’s Project Space
As part of Another Life, the VAC is honoured to welcome artist Cathy Busby to discuss her approach to printed matter, and specifically how one project can make way for another one.Join Busby and project curator Kegan McFadden in the intimate setting of our Fort Street project space | 670 Fort Street | Saturday 25 January from 2-3PM. {Seating is limited}
Cathy Busby is Canadian artist based in Vancouver, BC. She was born into a family of life-long social justice advocates of Scottish, English and protestant descent and grew up in what was known to her as ‘Mississauga, Ontario’. She moved to Carcross, Yukon on her own as a teenager to be part of an alternative school, The Carcross Community Education Centre. At the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA 1984), she made art and voiced her concerns about women’s rights, including affordable housing, job equity, and the proliferation of militarism. During her MA in Media Studies and PhD in Communication (1999), she investigated self-help books and recovery culture as a way to think about the politics of pain, later making art about public apologies, memorials, and care within and outside healthcare institutions.
In her practice, she has often amassed collections to create art and make meaning: public apologies; vehicle names; neighbourhood posters; corporate slogans; self-help books; and portraits. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including in New York; Beijing, Melbourne, and Berlin.
Read more about Busby’s project, We Are Sorry, online.