Summary: In this final episode of our series on the topic ‘Earth’, Ashar speaks with artist Genevieve Robertson, about materiality, walking, and interdisciplinary collaboration in understanding and addressing environmental issues. The conversation delves into her specific projects, including Slope and Rainbow Jordan, highlighting the significance of slowness, and the role of artists in environmental advocacy.
Bio: Genevieve Robertson is a visual artist with an enduring interest in environmental studies. Her practice is grounded in drawing/painting, and extends to video, installation, and various forms of collaboration. Through the study and use of gathered materials (charcoal, paper, water, silt, ash, bitumen, plant and fungi dye, graphite etc.), her work explores anthropogenic impacts on ecology and the climate, and the intelligence and interconnection of the life systems of which we are part. Robertson holds a BFA from NSCAD University, an MFA from Emily Carr University, and has been supported through exhibitions, conferences and residencies internationally, and awards and grants nationally. Her work is featured in Outdoor School (Douglas and McIntyre), Art and Climate Change (Thames and Hudson), and Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada (Wilfrid-Laurier University Press). She is of mixed European settler ancestry and currently lives and works in the West Kootenays on the unceded territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx Sinixt Confederacy Arrow Lakes and Yaqan Nukiy Lower Kootenay Band peoples.
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IG: @genevieve__robertson