Shirley Wiebe
Shirley Wiebe is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsliel-Waututh Nations. Her work is informed by a strong childhood bond with the prairie landscape. She creates installation and sculptural work that explores the inter-relationship between physical geography and the built environment. With a particular interest in site-specific and project-based opportunities, her concepts develop through investigation of materials, history, and place.
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CURRENT EXHIBITION | Sept 4, 2024 (8:30AM) - Oct 30, 2024 (Noon) Reception - Wednesday, Sept 11, 4–7pm Artist Talk - Wednesday, Oct 9, 7-8:30pm Shirley Wiebe shares a series of new sculptural installations that consider her Mennonite background and history. The recurring form of a found staircase embodying concepts of passage, challenge, and destination intermingles with works in a state of perpetual motion, untangling and tangling. Her process is based on studied physical interaction with materials in unfamiliar combinations, which she gathers on site or repurposes from remnants. This is her way of dismantling the past to manifest the present.