Artist Details

Kallis, Sharon

Vancouver, Canada

https://sharonkallis.com/

Working in several parallel areas; indoor-studio based, outdoor-site specific response as well as in a community engaged installation practice, her focus shifts with what is seasonally at hand.

In community outdoor work, her creative process begins with a harvest principal that embraces communal stewardship of the land; weeding, invasive species removal, coppicing, gleaning and gathering. Oral traditions of knowledge sharing occur; her own experience with plants and their uses are exchanged with those familiar to a place through close investigation of the surroundings, walking, sharing stories about the landscape and observed shifts in eco-systems.

Installation ideas spring forth through conversation, idea sharing, identifying what materials are suitable for harvest and the consideration of the inherent physical properties of both place and material used.

Photo	Name of Work	Neighbourhood	Year	Medium/discipline	Program
	Aberthau: Flax=fibre+food	West Point Grey	2013	Garden/greenway	Neighbourhood Matching Fund
	Nest	Strathcona	2010	Environmental Art	Neighbourhood Matching Fund
	Urban Weaver Project	Strathcona		Multidisciplinary	Fieldhouse Activation Program

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