SECOND GROWTH

by Heather Passmore

Heather Passmore. Second Growth, 2006, 16 x 20 in, ballpoint pen on color photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

BIO

Heather Passmore lives in Vancouver where she obtained a Master of
Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. Her artwork
typically displays concern with its own assumption of cultural value
and registers the potential for critical autonomy outside the realm of
elite art. A concern with class stratification, ascribed hierarchies
of cultural value, and the gender dimension to these politics is
manifest through her reconfiguration of quotidian, outdated and
discarded media. Snapshots, linoleum, wood panelling, t-shirts,
doodling, and graffiti are used to extend the notion of art as an
everyday category of experience and popular practice in disalignment
with consumer culture. Solo exhibitions include: Struts Gallery,
Sackeville, 2007; Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, 2007;
Gallery 101, Ottawa, 2006; Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, 2006; The
Odd Gallery, Dawson City, 2001. Group exhibitions include: Modern
Fuel, Kingston, 2008; The Khyber, Halifax, 2007; Artspeak Gallery,
Vancouver, 2005; Vancouver Art Gallery, 2005; Belkin Satellite, 2004.