Told Again 2

Told Again II Matchbox 2017-2018 Inventory of Memory

Told Again 2:

Reworking Fairytales from Grimm Brothers What would you change about a fairytale?

How would you rework and reclaim a fairytale in your artistic practice?

Double Exhibition Upstairs Gallery and Proof Gallery, Distillery District of Toronto on Sep. 2018

Erin Candela Originally from Northern BC, Candela often depicts wild landscapes and creatures from Northern places. Ambiguity as well as mystery, history, issues of land and conflict, wilderness & isolation, and the suggestion of a supernatural North are central themes in a scattered attempt to pin down fragments of a collective story or memory. instagram.com/candles erincandela.ca The Dark Woods (ceramics, feather, fibres) The use of narrative and text is frequent in my latest images and work. For the Grimms matchbook series, I envisioned 10 birds, taken from imaginary forests, some of them on branches, in flight, perhaps in pairs. Each piece is different but associated with inscribed or painted words‌some clear and strident, and some text obscured and reliant on suggestion. The pieces in some way suggest a familiar but ambiguous story of the deep wilds.

Emily Jan

Jan is a Montreal-based artist and writer. She was born and raised in California, and has been on the move ever since. Her biophilic sculptures and installations combine the found with the fabricated to evoke the faraway and the fantastical. As a wanderer, naturalist, and collector of objects and experiences, she is guided in her work by the spirit of exploration, kinship, and curiosity. Jan has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, and has written and illustrated two books: still life (2014) and A Denali Book of Hours (2017).

The White Snake (clay, resin, drawing, rice) The White Snake is the tale of Adam and Eve remixed: a snake, an apple, a setting forth, a man, a woman. The man eats the snake, which reunites him in kinship with the natural world, and his animal comrades deliver him in his quest for union (the ring), for order (the millet), and for understanding (the apple from the tree of life). As source material, Jan takes narratives lurking within the collective imagination of the West and re-envisions them, layering references from high culture with low culture, science with mythology, and history with current affairs. Her work ultimately strives to weave all these strands into a larger story about what it means to be a human living in a world roiling with turmoil and catastrophe but yet which is still mysterious and beautiful. emilyjan.com instagram.com/emilyjanstudio

Julie Lambert

Julie Bénédicte Lambert is a weaver and a technician. Weaving with paper and metallic thread is her specialty. She folds and sculpts the resulting rigid surfaces. Metaphors between textile and writing fascinates her and are the object of her research. www.papertextile.com The Three Spinners (weaving, mirror, threads) This woven matchbox belongs to the princess of the Three Spinners’ tale. Shiny and decorative on the outside, it contains a skein of unspun flax tow and a small mirror. These objects will act as reminders to the princess whom and why she owes her social status.

Woven with linen, fine precious thread as well as thin metal filament, this box is a metaphor of the gold cage she chose for herself.

instagram.com/marywongartist facebook.com/MARYWONGartist Mary Wong Wong is an award winning Toronto based contemporary artist located in the Distillery Historic District. She holds an Honours BA from the University of Waterloo in painting and sculpture. Wong has exhibited her work in both group and solo shows in Canada, and continues to place her work in private collections across the globe Fairytales (painting, paper cut) www.MaryWong.ca Her abstract landscapes are rooted in the natural world. Inspired by her love of nature, her paintings explore the connection between the beauty and turbulence in nature to the flow of human experiences. Such experiences can often leave an imperceptible mark on our inner, most vulnerable self. Like the storms that rage and mark our seasons, memories can inscribe their own patterns and pathways upon the sub-conscience mind. Strongly influenced by the Romantic era, Wong’s painterly imagery brings to life a dreamscape of secluded caverns, windswept skies over rocky terrain and still waters. Instilled in her pictorial constructions is a shifting state of flux as her impasto mark-making allows threads of self- reflection and contemplation to freely traverse the landscape.

Natalie Draz Using pen, ink, watercolour and pigment, Natalie Draz illustrates and papercuts cities that exist between reality and her own perspectives. Drawn to clean inked lines, architectural details and the gorgeous palette of ink and watercolour, her illustrations transform from drawings into three dimensional papercuts. www.nataliedraz.com instagram.com/nataliedraz Beneath the Juniper Tree (drawing, paper) Drawing inspiration from the tale of the Juniper Tree, fairytale elements of transformation, death, life and the forests deep in our hearts come together into Natalie’s layered illustrations

Shannon Moynagh Moynagh is an artist and arts educator from Brampton Ontario. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University in 2009. Since then she has exhibited and sold her work in Brampton, Mississauga, Toronto and Montreal. Shannon is a member of Beaux-Arts Brampton, a not-for-profit artist-run centre in Downtown Brampton, where she occupies Studio #7. She is also a member of the InPrint Collective, a Toronto-based group of printmakers who exhibit together and host community-based art events at various Museums in Toronto and beyond. Shannon teaches painting, drawing and print media to children and adults. facebook.com/shannon.moynagh instagram.com/shannonmoynagh The Tale of Briar Rose (papercut, drawing, fibres) The fairytale that I chose is the Tale of Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty). I chose this story because I was pregnant with my daughter when I began the matchbox project, and her middle name is Rose after my Grandmother. It is one of my favourite fairytales as a young girl, so decided to dedicate it to my daughter Scarlett Rose. Inside the matchbox you will see the princess sleeping; I decided to design her as a ballerina, because I was a dancer as a child. She lies atop a bed of roses, symbolizing love amongst the pain of thorns.

Sheila Jonah

Jonah is a Toronto based photographer and printmaker who currently is fascinated with tiny matchbox scenerios and Curiousity Cabinets. instagram.com/sheilajonah The Frog Prince (drawing, paper, craft) A lowly frog befriends a Princess after rescuing her golden ball from the pond. The Frog’s request for this deed is that he asks the Princess to let him sleep on her pillow and kiss him. This audacious act breaks a curse and the Frog is revealed as a handsome Prince. Of course they all live happily ever after. This could be used as a life lesson‌or not!

Jon P. and Hea R. Kim Jon and Hea are a South Korean born dynamic duo, partners in life as well as creativity.

Jon’s delicate illustration skills are matched by Hea’s water colouring, fibres, and ceramics. jon-p.weebly.com

heakim.weebly.com

Nixie of the millpond (ceramic, glaze, drawing, digital print) The story is about the water spirit who has a great magic power to fiercely negotiate and threaten people. Instead of focusing on the character we are more intrested in the setting of the story. The circling about the pond draws us towards the unconscious and dreamy processes - dark and whimsical

All the process .....

from the artists....

‘Curious Fauna’ Upstairs Gallery Distillery District Toronto

Proof Gallery Distillery Distric of Toronto

Inventory of Memory Natalie Draz, Hea R. Kim (co-founder & co-curator) @inventoryofmemory catalogue design (illustration & layout) by @jon_p_art