Ellen Moffat
| Ellen Moffat | |
|---|---|
 Performance at PAVED Arts in November, 2011 | |
| Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | University of Toronto, Concordia University, University of Regina |
| Known for | Media Art, Sound Art, Installation Art |
Ellen Moffat is a Canadian media artist who works with sound, image and text in installation and performance. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she now resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Education
Moffat obtained a BA in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Regina.
Biography
As an artist, Moffat has exhibited her work throughout Canada and internationally and has completed a number of artist`s residencies. They include residencies at Video Vérité (now PAVED Arts) in Saskatoon, The Dunlop Gallery in Regina, CARFAC Saskatchewan in Prince Albert,[1] and the Canada Council for the Arts' Paris Residency in 2012.[2]
Moffat has also been involved in many art organizations as a cultural worker and as a board member and has worked as a sessional instructor at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina.[1]
Language and speech have been ongoing subjects of exploration for Moffat. The installation entitled "COMP_OSE" exhibited in a national tour in 2008 and 2009, included two interactive interfaces - one creating language as sound, the other as text. These "instruments" engaged gallery goers in collaboration.[3] These artistic concerns extend to include the slippage that occurs in translation, as in the work "she i her" exhibited at The Dunlop Gallery in 2015.[4]
Over the years, she has collaborated with many other artists and musicians including Jeff Morton and Kim Morgan.
Solo Exhibitions
Exhibitions featuring Moffat's work in chronological order:
- (2013) she i her, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon
- (2011) PickUpPutDown, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
- (2011) Lines, Tones and Spaces, Port Loggia, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax
- (2011) vBox, Project Space, Open Sound, Surrey Art Gallery
- (2011) COMP OSE, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario
- (2009) COMP OSE, Doris McCarthy Gallery, U of T-Scarborough, Toronto
- (2008) COMP OSE, College Building Gallery, U of S, Saskatoon
- (2006) Claybank Voices, Art Gallery of Swift Current
- (2006) BLOW, Estevan National Exhibition Centre, Estevan
- (2006) SoundsNervouse, The New Gallery, Calgary
- (2006) SoundsNervouse, WPK Kennedy Centre, North Bay
- (2005) Fault Lines, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
- (2004) BLOW, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
- (2001) Line Break, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury
- (1999) Shades of Black and White, Neutral Ground, Regina
- (1998) Shades of Black and White, The Little Gallery, Prince Albert
- (1995) Still Life/Nature Morte, MFA Exhibition, Scotia Centre's Galleria, Regina
Discography
Recordings featuring Moffat's work, chronologically:
- (2010) MOO (collaboration with Jeff Morton)
- (2010) urbansubsonic
- (2009) Eidola
- (2004) BLOW
- (2002) Fault Lines
References
- 1 2 Warland, Betsy (2004). BLOW: ellen moffat. Saskatoon, SK: Mendel Art Gallery. ISBN 1-896359-41-8.
- ↑ Lau, Yam (2014). "A Case In Physiognomic Reading". BlackFlash Magazine.
- ↑ Lovrod, Marie (July 2009). "Sounding Capacities for Co-Creation: Ellen Moffat's COMP_OSE". Fuse Magazine 32 (3): 42–43.
- ↑ Fornwald, Blair (Summer 2015). "On Language and the Limits of Legibility". At the Dunlop.