iMPACTS was a nine-year (2016-2025) McGill directed, SSHRC-funded national investigation into sexual violence on campus, concluding with the exhibition WALKING ALONGSIDE TRAUMA (WAT), 2025. As an artist visualizing the effects of sexual violence, my work had to align itself with the trauma and evolving resilience experienced by survivors.
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Trio of Walkers. WAT. 2025. Balanced figurative slabs taken from large press mould. Grid patterns - relaying barriers, restriction, and conversely, resilience. H-25 inches. H-61cm -
Side view 1. WAT. 2025. Showing thin slabs balanced but fragile. H-25 inches. Collection of CCBC. -
Side view 2. Trio of Walkers. WAT. 2025. Grid patterns, favourite of mine, both restricts and organizes space. H-25 inches -
Walker, raw in process. -
From, Trio of Walkers. WAT 2025. Detail, broken, wire staples. -
A Gulliver Moment. WAT. 2025. Figurative slab resting on dowels, trapped by woven wire net. Vertical or horizontal views. Wooden base. H-10 x L-25 inches, H-26 x 63cm, collection of CCBC -
A Gulliver Moment. WAT. 2025. Thin slab balanced on wooden dowels, telephone wire hair, woven wire net trapping figure. Vertical or horizontal views. Wooden base. H-10 x L-25 inches, H-26 x 63cm, collection of CCBC -
Connections and Contagion. WAT, 2025. Woven porcelain figures, with laced telephone wire, supporting/connecting, conversely spreading contagion and damage. Unfixed and experimental, horizontal or vertical views. H-19 inches, 50cm. Collection of artist. -
Connections and Contagion, WAT. 2025. Seen as intended, a wall piece -horizontal view. -
Boxed Walkers. Experimental and in process. Not included in WAT. -
Travelling WAT. 2025. We mounted and took down WAT three times, Jan-March 2025. -
Fritz Farm opening. -
McGill Faculty Club, WAT. held for iMPACTS symposium participants. -
McGill Faculty Club
In 2016, I was invited by Dr.Shaheen Shariff to be a part of the Arts Section of iMPACTS. I contacted the Craft Council of BC (CCBC). Raine McKay, as curator, recruited 12 material artists, and we collaborated with Douglas College in New Westminster. Conferences in BC, Ontario, Quebec, interviews with social workers, Zines, writing, and responding work. There were three WAT Exhibitions – at Douglas College, Fritz Farm, Montreal, and at the final iMPACTS symposium, McGill Facility Club, Montreal in 2025.