Libby Hague, Walk with me, installation, 2015
- Friday, May 1, 2015
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
Libby Hague will look at how gender plays a role in member composition, staffing and the volunteer hours in the network of printshops across Canada. These essential production centres are composed of artists who become friends and mentors to each other, and who work and volunteer together. Hague will examine the important transitional role these centres play in an artist’s career, and will show images of printmakers’ work and print studios across the nation. Will her informal survey indicate that women form a substantial majority in print shop communities? If so, what can we make of this?
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Libby Hague is a Toronto-based visual artist who works primarily in print installation. In 2014, she participated in an interdisciplinary residency in Scotland at Hospitalfield Arts, and installed Shift, a woodcut and helium installation at the University of the Arts, Tokyo, in collaboration with Rochelle Rubinstein. Her animation Choir of Love recently screened at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Other exhibitions include Family Dynamics, Verso, 2014, Be Brave! We are in this together, YYZ, 2012, and Sympathetic Connections at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 2011. This May she will be inducted into the RCA. She is featured in the British book Installations & Experimental Printmaking by Alexia Tala and won the 2009 Open Studio National Printmaking Award.