Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Genevieve Robertson’s practice of drawing and painting with found materials - whether harvested, collected or dug up from the ground - is a way of implicating herself directly in the process of landscape representation, and of learning about the entanglement of non-human lifeforms and geologic landforms that coexist in our biosphere.

Over the past four years, Genevieve Robertson has developed a studio practice that involves extensive physical and material exploration, engaging with the complexities of our relations to land and water in a time of large-scale industrial exploitation and climate precarity. Drawing with found materials, her work links biology, geology and environmental studies with contemporary drawing. Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate. Robertson’s practice of drawing and painting with found materials - whether harvested, collected or dug up from the ground - is a way of implicating herself directly in the process of landscape representation, and of learning about the entanglement of non-human lifeforms and geologic landforms that coexist in our biosphere.

Exhibition Dates
February 7-March 22, 2020

Burnaby Art Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Friday | 10:00 AM-4:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday | 12:00-5:00 PM
Closed Mondays & Statutory Holidays
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