Jill Price
Born in 1969, I grew up in Pickering, Ontario, spending much of my childhood outdoors camping, skiing, fishing, gardening, exploring, and playing a variety of sports. In 1988, I moved to London, Ontario, to study Fine Arts at the University of Western Ontario, where I was privileged to receive instruction and mentoring from many nationally recognized artists such as Duncan De Kergommeaux, Sheila Butler, Wyn Geleynse, Colette Urban, Kim Moodie, Barbara Fischer and Helmut Becker. After schooling, I chose to remain in London and become an active member of its vibrant artistic community as an artist, arts writer (Scene Magazine), and arts administrator (Forest City Gallery, London Arts Council).
Upon meeting my mother's birth mother; a painter residing near Syracuse, New York, I relinquished my arts administrative roles to become more focused on my own work, and so in 1992, along with Beth Stewart, opened up a co-op gallery in the Covent Garden Market called Axis Studios to facilitate my own creative production as well as assist other emerging London artists sell and showcase their work.
In 2006, I attended Althouse College to attend Teacher's College and went on to complete my Visual Arts Specialist qualifications in 2009. For the last three years I taught visual and language arts at Matthews Hall Independent School, located in London, Ontario. With my recent move to Barrie, Ontario, I opened up my own studio in the downtown core. You will be able to find me working hard producing works for a series of shows slated for the 2011 exhibition year. I will also be showcasing work by other Ontario artists during the upcoming season as well as offering art instruction, workshops, consultation and mentoring services as the year progresses.
Although my current work visually celebrates Canada's landscape tradition, it also explores the post contemporary realities of our global community. My mixed media / collage approach works to create portraits of our culture in that I combine recognizable iconography, text, maps, and local imagery of places, people and things to deliver a symbolic form of storytelling. With environmental issues being prevalent within my work, I am often attempting to communicate how nature and its’ power are being mapped and engineered by humankind, leaving no land untouched from technology, politics, media, and violence.
Jill Price Studios
117 Lakeshore Mews, Barrie, Ontario
705-229-5211, jp@jillpricestudios.ca
