Valerie Carew

Valerie Carew is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who makes artwork about the wild landscapes she misses and loves. Valerie hand hooks textile wearables and sculptures, and paints slightly surreal and impressionistic oil paintings to create immersive and wild art experiences. Carew uses photography, video, and occasionally performance and kinetic moving parts to literally activate her pieces. She invites you, the viewer, to slow down and join her on an ever evolving immersive journey through the wilds of Canada.

Carew is an award winning graduate from the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design Program at OCAD University, where she received two scholarships and the 2016 Outstanding Exhibition award for her thesis Enclosure Movement: Comparative Dwelling and Embodiment (2016). She is a recipient of grant funding from Canada Council For The Arts to perform her piece Body Coiling at Craft @ The Edge Conference in Bona Vista, Newfoundland (2020), and has exhibited and delivered art talks internationally. Some of her textile work can be viewed at the Craft Ontario Gallery and Shop in Toronto.

She references Canadian ecosystems in Ontario, Quebec and costal areas in Newfoundland. These areas are the contemporary and ancestral territories of the Algonquin, Mississaugas of the New Credit, the Haudenosauee, Annishnaabe, Huron-Wendat, Mi’kmag and Beothuk Nations.