I am a painter based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. My painting practice engages with historical modes of figuration and iconography, drawing on early Renaissance visual languages while deliberately refusing their hierarchical and didactic legibility. My densely composed paintings depict figures in transitional states, where corporeal and extracorporeal modes of being coexist. Human, animal, vegetal, and symbolic elements interpenetrate, producing bodies that resist containment and categorization. Informed by monster theory, my figures articulate monstrosity as an emancipatory condition: one that destabilizes normative conceptions of the body and exposes the limits of what has historically been asked of “acceptable” forms of embodiment.
Education
NSCAD University 2020-2024
Undergraduate Studies in Fine Art
York University 2019-2020
Undergraduate Studies in Fine Art Foundation
Toronto School of Art 2019
Drawing and Collage
Western University 2009-2013
Undergraduate Degree
Honours Specialization in International Relations
Publications / Awards
Morgan Mullin. CBC Arts, September 29, 2025.
Karin Cope. Visual Arts News, Fall 2025. Artist Profile.
Karin Cope. Prospect Series, Fall 2025, MSVU Art Gallery.
Stephanie McKechnie, Elena Bentley.
Untethered Magazine, Vol. 6.1.
Featured Artist. November 2021: 1-97.
Canada Arts Council Concept to Realization, 2025
Arts Nova Scotia Professional Development Grant, 2025
Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant, 2025
Student Art Award Finalist and Winner in Painting, NSCAD University
Kevin and Karen Lynch Scholarship for Painting - 2024
Kevin and Karen Lynch Scholarship for Painting - 2022
Robert Pope Foundation Endowed Scholarship - 2022
Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship - 2021
Exhibitions
December 2025- Relation: Five Emerging Artists, group exhibition, Eltuek Arts Centre, Cape Breton, NS
December 2025- Relevance, group exhibition, The Blue Building Gallery, Halifax, NS
October 2025 - Toronto Art Fair, The Blue Building Gallery, Toronto, ON
Ceaseless, solo exhibition, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
April 2025- Plural Art Fair, The Blue Building Gallery, Montreal, QC
Fresh Paint and New Construction 20th edition,
Group Exhibition
Art Mûr. Montreal, QC - 2024
If Not Now, Then When,
Group Exhibition
The Blue Building Gallery. Kjipuktuk Halifax, NS - 2024
Student Art Award,
Group Exhibition
NSCAD. Kjipuktuk Halifax, NS - 2024
Gravity & Grace,
Solo Exhibition
Anna Leonowens Gallery. Kjipuktuk Halifax, NS - 2023
30 Under Thirty-ish,
Group Exhibition
Chester Arts Centre. Kjipuktuk Halifax, NS - 2023
Chronic
AFX Animation Festival of Halifax.
Kjipuktuk Halifax, NS - 2022
Remedy
OIAF, Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Ottawa, ON - 2021
Antigonight: Art After Dark Festival
Antigonish, NS - 2021