"First Thursdays" Apri 1st presents: SANDRA HAWKINS, Ecology of Narrative Space

Special event for April 1st..

"FIRST THURSDAYS" in West Queen West

SANDRA HAWKINS, M.E.S., B.F.A., C.F.A., B.A. soc
Ecology of Narrative Space
Multimedia Installation and Photomontage Prints

March 30 – April 1, 2010 (Talk 7:30/8:30 pm)
@ Reference, 1142 Queen St. West (next to Drake Hotel) Toronto


Special Event: On "First Thursdays" evening, April 1st, this exhibition is on the West Queen West Art + Design Walking Tour.

Media Contact: shawkins@rogers.com   http://www.artengine.ca /sandra 613 820-0783 or 416 968-1720 (until April 4)

Artist Statement
The Ecology of Narrative Space is an ongoing aesthetic investigation on the simultaneity of filtered memory and time, and the intersection of personal and institutional identity. The Arctic Crisis Project, Parts 1 and 2 photomontage print series (2008-09) are a contemporary discussion on global warming and filtered memory. Part 4, Arctic Journal Reading Installation, inspired by the Part 3 Arctic Journal Reading Performance (2009 Banff), is reconceived in the sub title, The Ecology of Narrative Space.
Biography
Sandra Hawkins is a recognized contemporary visual/media artist showing in major centres across Canada and internationally in China, Russia, Germany, Hungary, United States, the SUBA Biennale in Colombia, and the National Gallery of Pakistan where images from the Arctic Crisis Project are part of their National Collection. Hawkins lived and worked in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 1980 and 1982 during which time she visited Central Arctic communities now part of Nunavut, as preventative health educator. She currently resides in Ottawa, and periodically Toronto, traveling out from these centres for her international multi media art exhibitions, residencies and research. Hawkins is a 2010 K.M. Hunter Award nominee by the Ontario Art Council and the Ontario Art Foundation for contributions her art is making in her field.