Paige Quinn (b. 1998) is an emerging artist who lives
and works in Vancouver, BC on the unceded territory of the Squamish, Musqueam
and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Paige makes work that explores the relationship between self and other, or self and environment. Initially inspired by her own personal experiences, she works to connect the individual to the universal. In her paintings, she blends and merges figures and landscape until they become indistinguishable, painting abstracted scenes of anthropomorphized landscapes seen as if within touching distance. With obscured and revealed sections of the canvas, they invite viewers to peer through these drawn branches into a blurred landscape of colour.
In her work, she explores themes of ecological spirituality, connection, and grief, dialectical thought, and synchronicities. She often works between painting and drawing techniques, exploring how time shapes perception of experience between the two mediums. She is interested in the relationship between the immediacy of drawing as it relates to the extended or gradual practice of painting. How does a drawing change over time as it is explored in a painting? How does experience change over time as it is revisited in memory?
Recent solo exhibitions include Portal Pop-Up Gallery, 4x4 Gallery, N/A Gallery, and 10 Carden Gallery. Notable group exhibitions include New and Emerging at The Seymour Art Gallery, Earth Slant at the Banff Centre’s Project Space Gallery, Curator’s Sauna at Canton-Sardine. Quinn has participated in artist residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2024, and Artscape Gibraltar Point in 2022 and has recieved funding from both the BC Arts Council and the Canada Arts Council in support of her work.
Paige makes work that explores the relationship between self and other, or self and environment. Initially inspired by her own personal experiences, she works to connect the individual to the universal. In her paintings, she blends and merges figures and landscape until they become indistinguishable, painting abstracted scenes of anthropomorphized landscapes seen as if within touching distance. With obscured and revealed sections of the canvas, they invite viewers to peer through these drawn branches into a blurred landscape of colour.
In her work, she explores themes of ecological spirituality, connection, and grief, dialectical thought, and synchronicities. She often works between painting and drawing techniques, exploring how time shapes perception of experience between the two mediums. She is interested in the relationship between the immediacy of drawing as it relates to the extended or gradual practice of painting. How does a drawing change over time as it is explored in a painting? How does experience change over time as it is revisited in memory?
Recent solo exhibitions include Portal Pop-Up Gallery, 4x4 Gallery, N/A Gallery, and 10 Carden Gallery. Notable group exhibitions include New and Emerging at The Seymour Art Gallery, Earth Slant at the Banff Centre’s Project Space Gallery, Curator’s Sauna at Canton-Sardine. Quinn has participated in artist residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2024, and Artscape Gibraltar Point in 2022 and has recieved funding from both the BC Arts Council and the Canada Arts Council in support of her work.