Paige Quinn (b. 1998, Vancouver) is an emerging artist who makes work that explores the relationship between self and other, or self and environment. Initially inspired by her own personal experience and poetry, she paints the forest as if seen within touching distance, drawing attention to our
physical and emotional proximity to the land. In these forests, branches
become anthropomorphised limbs – questioning where does one’s body end and ‘other’
begins. She is interested in how we
change each other, how our environment shapes us and how we, in turn, shape our
environment. This is reflected in her approach to painting, allowing accidents
to occur in a way that transforms the painting and guides its direction.
Broadly, she has been thinking about painting as a form of chronology or record keeping. In each new layer, the paint both records and alters memory or experience each time the painting is revisited. In her paintings, she uses layers of paint to conceal and reveal the histories of her paintings, creating spaces for re-interpretation of the landscape through the viewer’s memory and imagination. How does a drawing change over time as it is explored in a painting? How does an experience change over time as it is revisited in memory?
Her work has been shown in Canadian galleries including the Seymour Art Gallery, Vancouver; Canton-Sardine, Vancouver; Boarding House Gallery, Guelph; and N/A Gallery; Guelph. Quinn has participated in artist residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2024, and Artscape Gibraltar Point in 2022 and has received funding from both the BC Arts Council and the Canada Arts Council in support of her work. Quinn lives and works in Vancouver, BC on the unceded territory of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Broadly, she has been thinking about painting as a form of chronology or record keeping. In each new layer, the paint both records and alters memory or experience each time the painting is revisited. In her paintings, she uses layers of paint to conceal and reveal the histories of her paintings, creating spaces for re-interpretation of the landscape through the viewer’s memory and imagination. How does a drawing change over time as it is explored in a painting? How does an experience change over time as it is revisited in memory?
Her work has been shown in Canadian galleries including the Seymour Art Gallery, Vancouver; Canton-Sardine, Vancouver; Boarding House Gallery, Guelph; and N/A Gallery; Guelph. Quinn has participated in artist residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2024, and Artscape Gibraltar Point in 2022 and has received funding from both the BC Arts Council and the Canada Arts Council in support of her work. Quinn lives and works in Vancouver, BC on the unceded territory of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.