We welcome our new Junior Fellows to Artengine – Patricia Kenny and Jackson Duxbury!
The Junior Fellowship program helps recent graduates transition out of the school context and into their professional practice. Patricia and Jackson will be grounded at Artengine for the next year, making and exploring the beginning of their artistic practices in our home here.
More about Patricia Kenny:
I am an interdisciplinary artist working across digital media, photography, and sculpture, while drawing on painting sensibilities and textile methods to create immersive installations. My practice examines the tensions between environmental concerns and consumer culture, with a focus on the contradictions inherent in sustainability efforts within systems that rely heavily on plastic and packaging. Through this lens, I invite viewers to reflect on their own positions within these structures. In its subtext, my work explores the interconnectedness of experience, memory, and the body, particularly in relation to mental health concerns and the cultural tropes of motherhood. I aim to evoke a nuanced emotional response and create a layered space for contemplation of the intertwined forces of strength and fragility in our roles within society and our relationships with one another.
I am a graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa, as well as the Fine Arts Diploma Program at the Ottawa School of Art. Driven by a lifelong commitment to learning, my academic journey encompasses previous studies in the visual arts at Algonquin College and York University. I have been honoured with various awards and scholarships for my endeavours. Committed to fostering the local arts community, I have volunteered with several arts organizations and currently serve on the Board of Directors for the Ottawa School of Art.
Check out Patricia’s website here
More About Jackson Duxbury:
Learning
about
art
and
disability
leaves
me
too
tired
to
make
art
while
disabled
Be art
myself?
Maybe
tomorrow
Jackson is currently working on an ma in contemporary art theory at the university of Ottawa and sleeping. To experience the working he isn’t doing check out this
or
@theprinceonpaper and @scrap.look on Instagram and use your imagination
