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Sci-fi tendencies. Time+space traveler. Solarpunk. Collections: Hirshhorn Museum, National Gallery of Canada, Buffalo AKG, AGO, SMoCA, ACE

This photo was taken by Megan Fisher, a dear frien This photo was taken by Megan Fisher, a dear friend whose home and community is threatened by the Summerland, BC wildfire currently out of control at 10,300+ hectares. Just one of the out of control wildfires in BC. Following the wildfire that completely devastated Lytton, BC in 2021, I produced a triptych entitled Halo which this photo is eerily reminiscent of. Our world is burning.

The community of Faulder is completely gone, and homes in Summerland are gone. 

The fire grew from 0 to 50 hectares in 6 mins (5:30 pm Friday) and then to 1000 ha in about 90 mins and then 5000 ha in another couple of hours. By the morning it was 10,000 ha.

I have been making work about climate change for over 30 years. Witnessing futures predicted from insufficient action become our present reality leaves me with few words. We had decades of warnings.

First photo: Megan Fisher
Following photos: BC Wildfire Service
This is an appreciation post. I have worked with m This is an appreciation post. I have worked with many wonderful people to install my work over the last 30 years. One stand out is @deanaturnbull, Exhibitions Officer at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art who, along with his crew, installed my 15 year survey exhibition and my solo featuring Pillars of Dawn. Dean has just 4 days remaining at the NGCA and after 28 years of dedicated service, he deserves a shout out and then some. 

Dean, thank you so much! 🙏🫶 You are deeply appreciated! 

Photo of me adjusting my video for my solo ‘Pillars of Dawn’ by Dean Turnbull.
From the archives: On location filming in Ireland, From the archives:
On location filming in Ireland, 2009
Thank you to ArtRepublic x Sony for featuring Orig Thank you to ArtRepublic x Sony for featuring Origin Stories at New York tech week! 💜

“What a night launching the Cultural OS with our best-in class-partners!

We brought together 100+ leaders from commercial real estate, healthcare, financial services, architecture, and design to explore a sharper question: How do our environments move beyond function to actively support connection, creativity, wellbeing, and performance?

The Cultural OS transforms existing digital infrastructure into intentional cultural assets through expert curation of digital art, seamless deployment, and privacy-first measurement. Curated digital art is now a part of business strategy and infrastructure that shapes culture in the spaces where we work, heal, and gather.

The response was exciting: organizations are ready for environments that say something meaningful and deliver measurable returns in engagement, retention, and experience.

We’re grateful to our artists and partners who made it possible: @sonyelectronics @techarchdesign @mccannsystems @pixera.one @smartmonkeysinc and @pam.smarter.navigation 

@studio.drift 
@ashthorp 
@benheim_ 
@_nonfigurativ_ 
@catmac_visuals 
@gmunk 
@eko33studio 
@kellyrichardson_studio 
@lindadouniar 
@infinite_mantra 
@nygi_xxv 
@stefan_contiero 
@ronentanchum.art 
@rozmerel 

The future is curated, and it’s already here.”
REPOST: Currently on display as part of the exhibi REPOST: Currently on display as part of the exhibition Smoke and Mirrors at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Sunderland UK @ngcasunderland1 : Kelly Richardson: Pillars of Dawn (2015)

▶ Pillars of Dawn imagines a desert landscape in which environmental conditions have crystallised the terrain.

▶ Using digital technologies, Kelly Richardson creates hyper-real, sublime, and spectacular landscapes that communicate underlying unsettling narratives.

▶ The series presents a scenario in which we might have to look beyond our current planet for refuge and survival, and they raise myriad questions about how we arrived as such a moment of environmental crisis.

▶ Her work asks us to consider what we truly value and where we might go from here.

📅 Smoke and Mirrors runs to Tuesday 26 May
▶ 10am - 5pm / Free / Monday - Saturday

ℹ Find out more: Sunderlandculture.org.uk/northern-gallery-for-contemporary-art/

#SmokeAndMirrors #NorthernGalleryForContemporaryArt #ArtWorks #Creative #Exhibition #NorthEast #GetCreative #landscapephotography #CraigAmes #KillZones #KellyRichardson #PillarsOfDawn
A wee story shared with Catherine Mondragon about A wee story shared with Catherine Mondragon about how I ended up living on the west coast, advocating for these globally important, irreplaceable old-growth forests. Anyone who has visited knows how it feels in these spaces. Sacred and then some.

Thank you @jessie.n.demers and Megan Dickie! <3 

#worthmorestanding #oldgrowth @bcndp
Q&A lead by @chrischongchanfui for the XL Outer Wo Q&A lead by @chrischongchanfui for the XL Outer Worlds screening in Victoria on Sunday. 🌲 Thank you for the thoughtful questions, Chris!
'Embers and the Giants', 2019 Installation view: K 'Embers and the Giants', 2019
Installation view: Kamloops Art Gallery
Photo: Site Photography
In advance of the screening of ‘Embers and the Gia In advance of the screening of ‘Embers and the Giants’ this weekend, consider reading British curator and writer George Vasey’s essay on the work, commissioned by York Mediale 2020 which featured the installation version of ‘Embers’ alongside works by the artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast and artist Rachel Goodyear. 

Link in bio!

#georgevasey #yorkmediale #kellyrichardson #marshmallowlaserfeast #rachelgoodyear
Photos from my IMAX shoot back in 2018. Credit: @ Photos from my IMAX shoot back in 2018. 
Credit: @hollisblaineroberts and @paulwalde 

See it this Sunday at the Royal BC Museum IMAX theatre, 3pm. The screening features 5 experimental shorts from artists Kelly Richardson, Lisa Jackson, Oliver Husain, Leila Sujir and Michael Snow.
Photo of me with the unprotected old-growth giant Photo of me with the unprotected old-growth giant Western Red Cedar featured in my IMAX film ‘Embers and the Giants’. The tree could be over 2000 years old. Imagine the histories it has lived through. Imagine the incredibly complex biological systems living in these old-growth forests. At the time of filming (2018), we had approximately 5% of these valley bottom giants remaining on Vancouver Island. We have roughly half of that still standing today, and the province continues to auction off these last stands to be logged. Imagine a time when we will truly value these irreplaceable life systems.

Photo: @tjwatt for @ancientforestalliance and @endangeredecosystemsalliance 

#worthmorestanding
This Sunday at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria! This Sunday at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria!
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