
Our ongoing Visiting Artist series continues with UVic Visual Arts professor Jennifer Stillwell, who will present a free illustrated public talk at 7:30pm Wed, Jan 22, in room A162 of UVic’s Visual Arts.
Jennifer Stillwell primarily works with sculpture and installation, and her recent work is site-responsive: found objects and manufactured materials are physically transformed in order to provoke imaginary possibilities — scale shifts, spaces collapse and meanings slip. She is currently completing a new body of work with the industrial activities around her studio space serving as the catalyst.
Stillwell received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the University of Manitoba. Her work has been exhibited widely including large-scale installations at the Darling Foundry in Montreal and Triple Candie in New York. Other solo exhibitions include YYZ Artists’ Outlet in Toronto and a survey show at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg. She has attended residencies in Banff, Toronto, Rotterdam, Quebec, Montreal and Naples, and her work has been part of group exhibitions and video art screenings across the country and internationally. She has a permanent public sculpture installed in Winnipeg, within Treaty No. 1 Territory, over the left field wall of the city’s baseball park.
Her talk is part of the continuing Visiting Artist Series in UVic’s Department of Visual Arts.
