Jennifer Ireland is a research based, multi-medium artist, working with curiosity and wonder; to re-imagine ways of knowing and ways of being with land. Ireland strives to make work that is mindful of situation, site, context, and access. This ethic is found in her work through materials and methods which are often light, sustainable and provisional. Ireland’s practice ranges from drawing, photography, video, and sculpture, to site-sensitive installation and performance. Each of their works strives to operate as speculative way-finding in this Anthropocentric time.
As a Treaty 7 person of settler descent, Ireland’s home is in Mohkinstsis/Calgary, Canada, and they are grateful to be a Treaty 7 person and committed to the responsibilities thereof.
Ireland holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Calgary, studied drawing and sculpture at Alberta University of the Arts, and recently graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Podcast
ART FUTURES: interdisciplinary and multi-species cooperation as anti-oppression strategies for the Anthropocene, in collaboration with Jennifer Brant and THE NEW GALLERY
Episode 1 https://soundcloud.com/user-457492670/art-futures-relationships-with-land-part-1
Episode 2 https://soundcloud.com/user-457492670/art-futures-relationships-with-land-part-2
Media & Publications
STORIES TO CHANGE THE WORLD: International Activists Collections: Volume 9, Publication: Summer 2021 – by invitation, featuring: on going project With the River (2020-2021)
THE NEW GALLERY, Exhibition Catalogue, in the long grass like the ocean where the ocean used to be, by Jennifer Ireland and Jennifer Brant in cooperation with THE NEW GALLERY: https://issuu.com/thenewgallery/docs/brantirelandcatalogfinalsingle
The Site Magazine, Vol.40:Devices, The Stone Archive by Caroline Loewen & Edited by Ruth Jones (Image 3: 6. 26. 25. 2. W. 5th, J Ireland, 2018, detail) p. 116 + 117 https://www.thesitemagazine.com/read/the-stone-archive
The Calgary Herald, Worlds Collide: 36 Local Artists Contemplate the Earth and Cosmos for First Exhibition at Contemporary Calgary, Eric Volmers, Jan. 23rd, 2020. https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/worlds-collide-36-local-artists-contemplate-the-earth-and-cosmos-for-first-exhibit-at-contemporary-calgary
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Alumni Association, Jennifer Ireland, Planetary, by Sára Molčan January, 2020. https://www.ecuaa.ca/alumni-exhibitions/jennifer-ireland-planetary/
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Alumni Association, Alums Jennifer Brant and Jennifer Ireland Open an Exhibit at the New Gallery titled; “in the long grass like the ocean, where the ocean used to be”, by Sára Molčan June, 2020. https://www.ecuaa.ca/alumni-stories/the-long-grass-like-the-ocean-where-the-ocean-used-to-be/
COUNTERACTIVE SUBTERFUGE: Sabotaging the Saboteur, Sunshine Frere, a stick in the spokes exhibition, Charles H. Scott Gallery, 2017. https://artotate.tumblr.com/post/164050243589/counteractive-subterfuge
Collaborations
speculative art collective – founding member, 2020 & residency co-developer/lead/host Jan to March 2021″Art as Theory Residency” & April to June 2021 developer/lead & co-host “Care” Residency
Contact
https://www.instagram.com/jig.a.jenny.saurus/
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