I was named a 2011 Flash Forward Emerging Photographer by the Magenta Foundation and was also named a Critical Mass Finalist by Photolucida in both 2011 and 2012. My work has been exhibited locally, at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa and the Elora Centre for the Arts, and internationally, including in New York City. My work was also included in The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art (2011), among other publications.
My work explores the home as a site for both constructing and constricting identity. Recently, I have begun to consider the home also as a site for social change. My work in progress, Yes these bones shall live, explores these ideas, along with gender and motherhood, through portraits of roller derby girls in their homes and with their families. Roller derby is one of the few full-contact sports available to women and probably the only full-contact sport played almost exclusively by women. It throws any notions of femininity in your face. Yet many Derby Girls are mothers (perhaps the ultimate “feminine” vocation), and the bouts are extremely family friendly.
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