Via endless talking mouths on tv, cheap plastic lawn chairs, disgruntled birds, & judgmental wiener dogs in tiny sweaters, the paintings depict characters that hover neatly between comically endearing and uncomfortably strange. Entities spiced with undertones of apathy, joy, societal confusion & apocalyptic dread wander flooding & droughting landscapes littered with plastic water bottle trash, cigarette butts, & art historical references.
At a moment where intentional joy & whimsy are arguably profound choices (thx Nietzsche), cute, faintly menacing beings nimbly traverse unsettling landscapes. In these spaces, cuteness does not point to comfort in a world full of danger, but rather “moves mercurially between familiarity and unfamiliarity, harmlessness & menace… & the human & the in-human (or non-human), without… even seeking a resolution of these tensions.” (Simon May, The Power of Cute, 29).
Intersections between beings humorously reflect on how animals traverse human society as pets, livestock, synanthropes, and wild animals. In these unstable spaces, beguilingly garish characters freely traverse between human & animal form. Such boundary transgressions refer to the monstrous ‘other’, but also speak to a porous & entangled boundary between human/non-human worlds. Through this project, my work attempts to de-center the human perspective, reflect on human/non-human intersections as a lens through which to consider the broader ecological impacts of contemporary life, & to ultimately ask: wtf is even going on rn?
bio:
I grew up on a horse farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. Since animals were my best friends, & drawing was one of the only things you could do on the back of a tractor, here we are. I make video art & recently returned to painting after a 15-year hiatus. I have an MFA from Western University & live between Dawson City, Yukon, a remote community near the arctic circle (did i mention cold?) & Toronto. I’ve spent a lot of time struggling with depression, which i’ve recently started to blame on the capitalist system & overall fucked-up world, & this has been going well for me.
my work is represented by Penny Contemporary Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia & Lustre Contemporary in Toronto, Canada.
for inquiries ~ pinkmilkdrinkprojects@gmail.com or IG @pinkmilkdrink
shit that happened
2027 TBD Penny Contemporary, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (solo) (upcoming)
2026 TBD Lustre Contemporary, Toronto, Canada (group) (upcoming)
2026 The Affordable Art Fair New York, Lustre Contemporary, New York, USA (group) (upcoming)
2025 Art Toronto, Lustre Contemporary, Toronto, Canada (group)
2025 The Affordable Art Fair New York, Lustre Contemporary, New York, USA (group)
2025 The Artist Project, Toronto, Canada
2025 caribou news, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Outdoor Projection, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
2024 ‘postcards from hell’ exhibition review by Andrew Harper in Mecury TasWeekend
2024 postcards from hell, Penny Contemporary, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (solo)
2024 The Other Art Fair, Barker Hanger, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Union Gallery, New Orleans, USA (group)
2024 on the sixth night i started to dream in flamingo, The Arthouse Film Festival, Austin, USA
2024 nothin personal it wuz jus bIzNesS, AR collab w JKLYNK, (S)hiver Winter Arts Festival, Dawson City, Canada
2023 on the sixth night I started to dream in flamingo, Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
2023 on the sixth night I started to dream in flamingo, Bridge Video, Chicago, USA
2023 nobody cares work harder, International Experimental Film Festival, Athens, Greece
2023 on the sixth night I started to dream in flamingo, Deluge Contemporary Art (for Antimatter [Media Art] Festival, Victoria, Canada
2023 The Other Art Fair, Barker Hanger, Los Angeles, USA (group)
2023 on the sixth night i started to dream in flamingo, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia, Bogotá, Colombia
2023, The Other Art Fair, Sydney, Australia (group)
2023 on the sixth night i started to dream in flamingo, 01 NFT | New Media | Experimental | Digital Arts Film Festival | United Kingdom, London, UK
2023 Your brain is not broken, Underneath the Floorbaords, London, UK
2023 on the sixth night i started to dream in flamingo & Your brain is not broken, Absurd Art House Film Festival, Kent, UK
2023 on the sixth night i started to dream in flamingo, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, Canada
2023 Friend of a Friend Grand Opening Exhibition, Brotherly Love Gallery, Philadelphia, USA (group)
2023 black bird, Old Firehall TV, Whitehorse, Canada
2022 On the sixth night i started to dream in flamingo, MicroActs 13 Artist Film Screening, London, UK
2022 black bird, International Art Film Festival, Birmingham, UK
2022 Magical Micro Minis Exhibition, Levity Gallery, Nelson, Canada
2022 black bird, Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, Canada
2022, Buzz Buzz Biatch compilation, Keno City Music & Film Festival, Keno City, Canada
2022, Buzz Buzz Biatch compilation, Yukon Riverside Arts Festival, Dawson City, Canada
2022 black bird, Fine Art Film Festival, Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Venice, USA
2022 Because Time, GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Loophole, Berlin, Germany
2021 black bird, Austin Arthouse Film Festival, Austin, USA
2021 A Memory, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Outdoor Projection, Dawson City, Canada
2021 Because Time Video Drunk Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2019 Because Time, Lausanne Underground Film Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
2019 Ya – why so negative?, Women in Media Technology, Tribute to the 15 Years of Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
2019 The Serpent & The Mouse, Tribute to the 15 Years of Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
2018 like evenly spaced plants, Portland Unknown Fingertips Exhibition, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, USA
2018 Ya – why so negative? & like evenly spaced plants, The Unseen Festival, Denver, USA
2018 like evenly spaced plants (gallery), Seattle Transmedia Independent Film Festival, Factory Luxe, Seattle, USA (http://trueindependent.org/)
2018 Ya – why so negative?, Athens Digital Arts Festival: Singularity Now, Athens, Greece (http://2018.adaf.gr/)
2018 Ya – why so negative? & UsThemThemUs, SHIFT Festival: Redefining Normal, Turku, Finland
2018 Ya – why so negative?, VideoFormes International Digital Arts Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Touring Program from The 8th Day | Human Created Machine, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Curated by Eirini Olympiou (http://festival2018.videoformes.com/focus-adaf/?lang=en)
2018 Ya – why so negative?, The 8th Day | Human Created Machine, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Temple Athens, Greece, Curated by Eirini Olympiou (http://www.the8thday.gr/)
2017 consume repeat #2, Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, Canada (http://antimatter.ca/a17prog.pdf)
2017 UsThemThemUs (gallery) & You Need to Know This (screening), Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, Factory Luxe, Seattle, USA (http://trueindependent.org/)
2017 UsThemThemUs, Mujeres de ULTRAcinema, Mexico, program from Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá: Internacional: Mujeres, Subversión en la imagen experimental en movimiento (Women and Subversion in Experimental Film), Colombia, Curated by Ana González
2017 UsThemThemUs, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, Curated by Eirini Olympiou (http://2017.adaf.gr/)
2017 UsThemThemUs, Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá / CineAutopsia: Internacional: Mujeres, Subversión en la imagen experimental en movimiento (Women and Subversion in Experimental Film), Bogotá, Colombia, Curated by Ana González
2017 UsThemThemUs, European Media Arts Festival: PUSH, Osnabrück, Germany (http://www.emaf.de/en/index.html#festival)
2017 Last Contact, Filmideo, Index Art Center, New Jersey, USA
2017 Last Contact, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, Canada
2017 UsThemThemUs, Underneath the Floorboards, Hackney Picture House, London, UK
2016 UsThemThemUs, Jornadas de Reapropiación, Touring Program, Faro Aragón, Mexico City, Mexico
2016 UsThemThemUs, Jornadas de Reapropiación (Journeys of Reappropiation), Centro de Cultura Digital, México City, México
2016 consume repeat #2, Binnar Media Arts Festival, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
2016 UsThemThemUs, Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, Canada (http://antimatter.ca/a16prog.pdf)
2016 How to Identify a Witch, London Ontario Media Arts Association, Curated by Christina Battle, London, Canada
2016 The Serpent & The Mouse, Kodra: Mind the Gap Visual Arts Festival, Selection from Athens Digital Arts Festival, Curated by Eirini Olympiou, Thessaloniki, Greece
2016 Cómo reconocer a una bruja (How to Identify a Witch), Lima Film Festival, Video Babel Festival Tour Selection, Lima, Peru (Spanish translation)
2016 The Serpent & The Mouse, 24HR Cinema Festival, Selection from Athens Digital Arts Festival 2014/2015, Curated by Eirini Olympiou, x-church, Gainsborough, UK
2016 UsThemThemUs, Experiments in Cinema v11.4, Albuquerque, USA
2016 The Serpent & The Mouse, Delete TV, Channel C31 Public Broadcast, Melbourne, Australia
2016 The Serpent & The Mouse, Delete TV, Channel OKTO Public Broadcast, Austria
2015 Cómo reconocer a una bruja (How to Identify a Witch), Video Babel Festival, Cusco, Peru (Spanish translation)
2015 How to Identify a Witch,[.Box] Videoart Project Space Milano, organized by 28th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Curated by Marc Mercier, Milan, Italy
2015 How to Identify a Witch, 28th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, [.Box] Program, Marseille, France
2015 UsThemThemUs, MPavilion, organized by FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, UK) and Channels (Channels Video Festival, AUS), Curated by Soda Jerk, Shona Illingworth, Rory MacBeth, and Sarah Tutton Melbourne, Australia
2015 Interventions, Fuse Factory, Ohio State University Mansfield Gallery, OH, USA, Curated by Tyler Cann, Amy M. Youngs, Alison Colman, Kate Shannon, and Doo Sung Yoo (group) (http://fuse2015.thefusefactory.org/)
2015 The Serpent & The Mouse, European Media Arts Festival Tour, Ankara International Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
2015 How to Identify a Witch, Archivo Queer Italia: Religious Bondage, Cuntemporary, London, UK
2015 The Serpent & The Mouse, European Media Arts Festival Tour, City 46, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2014 The Serpent & The Mouse, European Media Arts Festival Tour, ZKM | Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2014 The Serpent & The Mouse, European Media Arts Festival Tour, German Culture Goethe-Institute, Paris, France, Curated by Ralf Sausmikat (http://www.emaf.de/files/emaf_tour_2014_web.pdf)
2014 The Serpent & The Mouse, 27th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France (French translation)
2014 The Serpent & The Mouse, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece, Curated by Erini Olypmiou
2014 The Serpent & The Mouse, Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece.
2014 Which Witch?, SOVA Gallery, Dawson City , Yukon
2014 The Serpent & The Mouse, European Media Arts Festival: We, The Enemy, Osnabrück, Germany. Curated by Joke Ballentijn, Katrin Mundt, and Sebastiaan Schlicher
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