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| | ARTIST NAME: | Wilson, Clint | | ACCESSION NUMBER: | 2024.034.002.A-I | | TITLE: | Souvenirs: Hawksbill Turtle
The Empathy Project Series | | DATE: | 2023 | | CATEGORY: | Sculpture | | MEDIUM: | porcelain, brick, cotton string | | DIMENSIONS: | Actual: 8.9 × 58.9 × 42 cm (3 1/2 × 23 3/16 × 16 9/16 in.) | | COLLECTION: | Alberta Foundation for the Arts |
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| | OTHER HOLDINGS: | Wilson, Clint | | ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Clint Wilson’s is an Edmonton-based multi-media artist and founder of Integrated Wilderness Systems, a platform for the development and dissemination of critical thinking around post natural ecologies. Manifest as multi-media installations, creative survival gear and biological fictions, he uses photography, video, sound light and kinetics to construct visual and aural environments that reflect upon states of wonder, transformation and transcendence in the context of anthropomorphic views of wilderness. He constructs narratives around themes of “wildness” and the atmosphere of wonder that often envelopes it.
Wilson’s site-specific installations explore the often-complex interdependent relationship between how we see the world and how we use it. His installations attempt to heighten our awareness of the ideological underpinnings of those things which we have come to accept as natural, neutral, transparent, and unmediated. His fascination with late Victorian idealism, the life of William Morris and the implicit nature of wilderness as a site for wonder has led his recent work to a re-imagining of the subversive potential of utopian ideologies.
Wilson has resided and practiced in Edmonton for the past 30 years since graduating from the University of Victoria with an MFA (1988) and produced exhibitions for galleries, found sites and Artist Run Centres both here across Canada and the United States, most recently at the Art Gallery of Chelsea in New York City, the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California and the MCA in Chicago.
Wilson exhibits widely and regularly throughout Canada and the United States, and his work is in the collection of the University of Alberta, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Edmonton, and in addition to his art practice, he has worked as the Senior Preparator at the Art Gallery of Alberta for close to three decades.
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