Ellen Moffat

Ellen Moffat
Performance at PAVED Arts in November, 2011
Born 1954
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Education
Known for Media Art, Sound Art, Installation Art
Website http://www.ellenmoffat.ca/

Ellen Moffat (born 1954) 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.

Artwork

As an artist, Moffat has exhibited her work throughout Canada and internationally and has completed a number of artist`s residencies. These 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] In 2017 she was commissioned to create Small Sonorities: Material Signals, a four-minute, multi-screen video as part of the Remai Modern Art Gallery web commission project.[5]

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. 1 2 Warland, Betsy (2004). BLOW: ellen moffat. Saskatoon, SK: Mendel Art Gallery. ISBN 1-896359-41-8.
  2. ↑ Lau, Yam (2014). "A Case In Physiognomic Reading". BlackFlash Magazine.
  3. ↑ Lovrod, Marie (July 2009). "Sounding Capacities for Co-Creation: Ellen Moffat's COMP_OSE". Fuse Magazine. 32 (3): 42–43.
  4. ↑ Fornwald, Blair (Summer 2015). "On Language and the Limits of Legibility". At the Dunlop.
  5. ↑ "Remai Modern: March Web Commission by Ellen Moffat". Galleries West. 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
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