Barrie-based artist Dr. Jill Price anchors her work in her concept of UN/making, drawing on histories of maintenance art and walking as creative practice. Together with community members, she scours regional shorelines, collecting, cleaning, sorting, recycling, donating, and reworking debris. These actions result in meticulous displays and wry assemblages that acknowledge the agency and potential of what has been forgotten or discarded.

Inside the gallery, this exhibition builds on her ongoing project, Wht-trSH, which visualizes the slow violence of plastics and other materials that colonize human bodies and more-than-human bodies of land and water. Still, the truest site of Price’s work is outside, where acts of walking, witnessing, and care unfold, and where she models a shared responsibility toward the environments we inhabit.   

Artwork courtesy of the artist. Exhibition documentation by Dennis Hristovski