April 10, 2010 – May 8, 2010
The AGNS Western Branch is pleased to partner with Visual Arts Nova Scotia as the host organization for the VANS in Residence pilot program. This year’s artist-in-residence has been awarded to artist Katie Belcher. Belcher will be in Yarmouth for four weeks, providing her with an extended period of time to focus on the development and production of new work and, as well, to engage local youth through a range of workshops, presentations, and activities. These elements will come together to create a dynamic environment for learning and creation in our 3rd floor Community Room.
Katie Belcher is an emerging artist based in Halifax. Originally from Ottawa, Katie studied at NSCAD University, receiving a BFA, with a major fine art—drawing and sculpture—and minor art history, in 2007.
Belcher states, “Through my artistic practice I have been exploring the ways in which humans process experience and build memory, making unusual connections between the objects, literature, spaces, and species by which we are surrounded. I find drawing to be the perfect medium through which to make these explorations. It is immediate and intuitive, and lends itself to evoking experience without defining it”.
Over the past few years, Belcher has steadily exhibited in a variety of contexts. In 2010-2011, Belcher’s work will be featured in solo exhibitions at Gallery Vertigo, (Vernon, BC), Vernon Public Art Gallery, (Vernon, BC), Craig Gallery (Dartmouth, NS), and ARTsPLACE (Annapolis Royal, NS) where she was the Portia White Protégé Artist-in-Residence for a six-month period in 2007. She was awarded an international residency at Canserrat Artist-in-Residence (El Bruc, Spain) in 2010.
In addition to her artistic practice, Katie Belcher currently works as the Program Coordinator of the MSVU Art Gallery where she recently co-curated Somewhere along the line, an exhibition examining contemporary drawing practices which combine two and three dimensions. As well, Belcher is a regular contributor of feature articles and exhibition reviews to Visual Arts News.