Artist: Claire Greenshaw
Exhibition title: With My Little Eye
Curated by: Clint Roenisch
Venue: Clint Roenisch, Toronto, Canada
Date: October 25 – December 21, 2019
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Clint Roenisch, Toronto
The gallery is excited to present an exhibition of new work by Claire Greenshaw (b. Wales, UK). The artist works primarily in drawing and sculpture and this exhibition will be notable for its melding of the two with her largest, most ambitious undertaking thus far.
Greenshaw has written:
“Drawing is the residue of time. The eye moves across the surface and the hand follows. Sight into touch. Marks accumulate and thoughts are made visible. We move through a world of images, inhabiting the gaze of others, a disembodied eye devouring an endless stream of pictures. What shifts in understanding occur when an image is remade as a drawing?
These drawings are fictions and translations, visual fossils. Drawing is excavation and time travel.
Like sedimentary rock, a fragile agent for layers of fragmented histories.
These holes are a constellation of questions around looking and being watched, inside and outside, labour and time, things seen and unseen. Probing our roles as producers and consumers of images, the act of looking becomes material.
Here, punctures welcome the real to interrupt the surface of the drawings. Making space. Returning the gaze, meeting your eye.”
Claire Greenshaw has shown in many group exhibitions across Canada, and internationally, including shows at Judith and Norman ALIX Art Gallery, Sarnia; Neon, Brosarp, and The Royal Standard, Liverpool. Her solo exhibitions include Helen Pitt Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, The Khyber Arts Centre, Halifax and Mulherin Toronto. Greenshaw received an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2009 and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada in 2002. Greenshaw was co-creator, with Tony Romano, of Millions magazine from 2012-2014.
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, With My Little Eye, 2019, exhibition view, Clint Roenisch, Toronto
Claire Greenshaw, Perception Management, 2019, 4 x 1.5 x 2.5 inches
Claire Greenshaw, Perception Management, 2019, 4 x 1.5 x 2.5 inches
Claire Greenshaw, If not totally destroyed, 2019, 13.5 x 10.5 inches framed, coloured pencil and graphite on paper
Claire Greenshaw, If not totally destroyed, 2019, 13.5 x 10.5 inches framed, coloured pencil and graphite on paper
Claire Greenshaw, With, Not Through, The Eye, 2019, 23.5 x 23.5 inches framed, coloured pencil on paper
Claire Greenshaw, The Shadow and the Screen, 2019, 68.5 x 44.75 inches framed, graphite on paper
Claire Greenshaw, Archimedean Point, 2019, 41.75 x 32 inches framed, coloured pencil and charcoal on paper
Claire Greenshaw, Hitting the Wall, 2019, 39.75 x 30 inches framed, coloured pencil on paper
Claire Greenshaw, Feeling Delirious?, 2019, 16.35 x 13 inches framed, graphite+coloured pencil on punctured paper
Claire Greenshaw, Observer Effect, 2019, 96 x 276 x 4 inches, graphite on freestanding wall with holes, 5 framed drawings
Claire Greenshaw, Abandon Any Hope Of Fruition, 2019, 20.5 x 16.25 inches in custom frame, coloured pencil and charcoal on cut paper
Claire Greenshaw, Abandon Any Hope Of Fruition, 2019, 20.5 x 16.25 inches in custom frame, coloured pencil and charcoal on cut paper
Claire Greenshaw, Stigma, 2019, 19.5 x 16.25 inches in custom frame, coloured pencil and graphite on cut paper
Claire Greenshaw, Stigma, 2019, 19.5 x 16.25 inches in custom frame, coloured pencil and graphite on cut paper
Claire Greenshaw, Messenger, 2018, 42.25 x 33 inches in custom frame, graphite on cut paper
Claire Greenshaw, Messenger, 2018, 42.25 x 33 inches in custom frame, graphite on cut paper
Claire Greenshaw, Tunnel Vision, 2019, 18 x 24 inches in custom frame, coloured pencil and graphite on cut paper
Claire Greenshaw, Tunnel Vision, 2019, 18 x 24 inches in custom frame, coloured pencil and graphite on cut paper
Claire Greenshaw, Birth Story, 2019, 32 x 32 inches in custom frame, graphite on cut paper
Claire Greenshaw, Birth Story, 2019, 32 x 32 inches in custom frame, graphite on cut paper
