| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Erin Schwab is an Alberta-based artist who uses drawing as a way of understanding the intangible. Her charcoal drawings meticulously capture details of the natural world like the knurled notches of bark or ripples in fungus. Through her exploration of light and shadow, tension and release, growth and decay, she finds and reveals the quiet relationship of things.
Schwab holds a BFA from Alberta College of Art + Design, and graduated with distinction in 2006 from University of Alberta’s MFA program, where she focused her research on filtering the language of traditional botanical illustration and ceramics through the dialogue of contemporary drawing.
Her work has appeared in more than a dozen exhibitions, including Migrating Colony: Flood at Line Gallery in 2014 and Future Station: 2015 Biennial of Contemporary Art at The Art Gallery of Alberta.
Schwab has been an active member of the arts community in Alberta, sitting on advisory committees at local and provincial levels including the Arts Advisory Committee at the Alberta Legislative Assembly. She is the former vice-chair for the Arts Council Wood Buffalo.
Schwab lives and works in Fort McMurray, where she is dedicated to the development of arts and culture in the region. She teaches Visual Art and Design at Keyano College.
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