Spending the majority of her childhood in Pickering, Ontario, Price’s family always lived on the edge of suburban development. This along with a farming background and her parent’s passion for camping, hiking and skiing, generated a true respect and connection with the land that still informs her work today. A BFA graduate from the University of Western Ontario, Price’s work now explores the landscape tradition, exploring the beauty and social issues inherent within.

Her more political work, strives to use materials that help to evoke the issues embedded within her subject matter. Combining painting, storytelling, stitching, and digital imagery, Price attempts to visually investigate how the way we look at, acquire, work, and depict our landscapes are changing.  Her most recent work, Fabricated Landscapes” celebrates undeveloped pockets of land nestled within Barrie’s city limits that point to our rural beginnings. Coining these areas as “Rurbias”, she explore how our culture simultaneously mimics and destroys nature through its industrious design and development.

Email: jp@jillpricestudios.ca
Website: jillpricestudios.ca

EXHIBITION
 April’s “group of seven” at the Mad and Noisy gallery will examine how the juxtaposition of imagery can create a story or vice versa, how incorporated text can work to evoke memories or create a picture within each viewer’s mind.  Through mediums of encaustic, metal, paint, textiles and assemblage, this exhibition ultimately reveals the sequential nature of our existence and the interconnectedness or global reality of our society today.  We invite you to take in this narrative collection of works that celebrate the art of storytelling and the technologies with which artists choose to communicate our truths or fantasies.