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Valerie Carew

Artist member since 2023
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Toronto, Ontario

Valerie Carew (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores human relationships with land using body based sculpture, installation, painting, fibre craft practice and performance. Immersive role-play is combined with sculptural rug making to express relationships with land, dwelling, identity and self exploration. Valerie's sculptural works are designed for interplay and physical contact with the human body. Narratives are made using nostalgia and myth-making. Memories of land and home are harnessed for new world building, designed from a desire for connection and escapism. Carew hopes to re-wild and unsettle the colonial footprint through art, and create relationships between inside and outside worlds.

Work

Topographies (Sculpture)
Capelin Eggs
  • Valerie Carew
  • 11" x 3" x 11"
  • $400 buy — $30 try
#beadwork #mixed media #shorelines #grey #landscape
Topographies (Sculpture)
Bread Crumb Trail
  • Valerie Carew
  • 15" x 6" x 9"
  • $500 buy — $30 try
#handhooking #textile #beads #sculpture #mixed media
Bakeapples For Alan
  • Valerie Carew
  • 11" x 3.5" x 9"
  • $400 buy — $30 try
#soft sculpture #landscape #fibre #sculpture #handhooking
Beached
  • Valerie Carew
  • 25" x 6" x 13"
  • $550 buy — $40 try
#capelin #sculpture #craft #ocean #fish
Spawning Capelin
  • Valerie Carew
  • 11" x 4" x 10"
  • $500 buy — $30 try
#beads #land art #fibre #handhooking #textile
Land Love (Dreamscapes)
Blue Bird Salt & Pepper Shakers
  • Valerie Carew
  • 48" x 36" x 2"
  • $2000 buy — $100 try
#fields #figure #wall art #oil painting #animals
Fever Dream (La Manche Park, Newfoundland)
  • Valerie Carew
  • 30" x 30" x 2"
  • $1250 buy — $65 try
#landart #beavers #wood panel #dreamscape #landscape
The Run
  • Valerie Carew
  • 48" x 36" x 2"
  • $2000 buy — $100 try
#figurines #oil #still life #field #vintage
A Walk Among Anthropomorphic Flowers
  • Valerie Carew
  • 60" x 48" x 2"
  • $2500 buy
#oil #landscape #people #nostalgia #animals
Kitsch Convergence
  • Valerie Carew
  • 48" x 36" x 2"
  • Sold
#figurines #contemporary #kitschy #flowers #landscape
Woodland
  • Valerie Carew
  • 60" x 48" x 2"
  • Sold
#nostalgia #forest #embroidery #winter #oil
Mimicry
Land Stories
  • Valerie Carew
  • 30" x 30" x 1.5"
  • $1200 buy — $70 try
#nostalgia #acrylic painting #animals #oil painting #portrait
The Deep Dark Wood
  • Valerie Carew
  • 30" x 30" x 1.5"
  • $1200 buy — $70 try
#oil #winter #foxes #black #role play
Iceberg
  • Valerie Carew
  • 30" x 30" x 1.5"
  • $1200 buy — $70 try
#seascape #water #role play #surreal #portrait
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Blue Bird Salt & Pepper Shakers
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Upcoming Exhibitions
2024-04-11

Craft Ontario Shop
Shoreline Roamers: Lore and Embodiment

2024-04-06

The Royal Hotel, Picton ON
Gather in The County, A Textile Sampler

2024-03-28

Aird Gallery
Wildlife

Select Past Exhibitions
2023

Gellert Community Center
Hooking Up with Valerie Carew

2023

Propeller Gallery, Toronto
Unframed

2022

Lelie Grove Gallery, Toronto
Still Life Doesn't Stand Still

2022

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Portraits of Resilience

2022

Leslie Grove Gallery
Still Life Doesn't Stand Still

2021

Craft @ the Edge: A Handmade Future
Re-Crafted

2020

MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie
2019

The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto
2018

The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto
Catalogue Exhibition

2018

Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland and Ryerson Artscape, Toronto
Gender and The Lens ll

2017

Festival of Contemporary Dance, Rochester, NY
Dances at MuCCC

2017

John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
Laugh/Think

2017

The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Hard Twist 11

2016

The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Fly By Night: Nuit Blanche

Accolades
2020

The Canada Council For The Arts
Travel Grant

2016

OCAD University
Outstanding Exhibition Award

2015

OCAD University
Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2014

OCAD University
Dean's Scholarship

Press
2021

Handhooked Current
Artist Feature

2021

Fibre Art Now Magazine
Emerging Artists Showcase

Residencies
2015

Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto
Feminist Art Conference Residency

Education
2016

OCAD University
Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design

2014

OCAD University
Bachelor of Fine Arts

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