Past Residents
Past Resident2017: Danish Arts Foundation
Honey Biba Beckerlee
Honey Biba Beckerlee’s practice revolves around the belief that images co-produce our view of the world and the way we relate to each other. Through installation art she aims to push the visual medium to the point where it challenges our perception of reality. Her work revolves around how images may challenge the idea of a coherent objective reality and other singular paradigms, such as the principle of originality, individualism and anthropocentrism.
Honey Biba Beckerlee (born 1978) obtained an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is research-based and theoretically informed, with a keen interest in Quantum Theory, animism and materialism.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2017
April 21–April 22, 2017
Honey Biba Beckerlee, Cat State, 2014, Installation.
Honey Biba Beckerlee, Chromatic Aberration, 2015, Installation.
Honey Biba Beckerlee, Atom Dukh, 2016, Aquatint prints and copper printing plates.
Honey Biba Beckerlee, Genesis of a Pixel - A Tragedy in Three Acts, 2015, Installation.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2017: Manitoba Arts Council
Derek Dunlop
Derek Dunlop’s work questions the process of subject formation and the tradition of art making. His research has focused on the political, ethical, and philosophical conditions for contemporary abstraction through the mediums of painting and drawing. More recently, he has been developing sculptures and installations of “table works.” Using the affective vitality of found objects as a starting point, the new series of works are created to think through the creative agency of things. Evolving from very specific landscapes, this work is concerned with the way in which the present is continually haunted by the past.
Derek Dunlop completed his MFA at the University of British Columbia and will be pursuing his PhD in Art History at the University of Toronto in 2017. Dunlop was a participant of the inaugural Open Sessions program at The Drawing Center, and partook in the thematic residency Are We Looking at Dead Birds? at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the B.C. Binning Memorial Fellowship and the Andrew MacIntosh Memorial Book Prize in Fine Arts. Dunlop’s work has been presented in art spaces throughout North America including UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, and Artspeak, Vancouver.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2017
April 21–April 22, 2017
Derek Dunlop, Eternal Return, 2015, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 24 × 16 in. (60.96 × 40.64 cm).
Derek Dunlop, Smoke and Fog (7 Rail Spikes found near "Garbage Hill"), 2016, Found rail spikes and balloons, 8 × 15 × 21/2 in. (20.32 × 38.1 × 6.35 cm).
Derek Dunlop, Two Rectangles, 2015, Carbon on paper, 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.88 cm).
Derek Dunlop, Device for Speaking to the Dead (Prototype), 2016, Found wood, found rock and elastic bands, 9 × 51/4 × 7 in. (22.86 × 13.33 × 17.78 cm).
