Artist’s Statement
I practice drawing as an investment of time under stealth, the earth’s unseen rotation beneath our feet moving in the liquid trace of ink dripped and spilt across the empty page.
My subversive reconstitution of history upon the surfaces of scavenged Victorian fabrics and book pages have sought to transform and refute, by the timely intervention of the individual drawn gesture, the accepted meaning of these artifacts – inserting discrete anachronisms spoken in the visual vernacular of popular science fiction into a book’s illustrations, or else exploiting the shadow cast by its bindings to interrupt seemingly conventional scenes of bygone eras, now tainted by an ambiguous crease in space made well after their time. These books then become objects of disputable intellectual value in favour of uncertain narratives, destined to remain unsolved crimes against history.
Biography
Emerging artist and writer Stephanie Vegh studied Art and Comparative Literature at McMaster University before relocating to Scotland where she received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2005. She has since served as Artist-in-Residence with the Repton School in Derbyshire, England and written essays and reviews for various galleries and publications throughout the United Kingdom and Canada.
In 2007 she relocated her studio practice to Hamilton where she serves on the Boards of Directors for Hamilton Artists Inc. and The Print Studio. Her drawings have been included in exhibitions in Hamilton, Toronto and Winnipeg, and she will be mounting her first significant solo exhibition at the Leeds College of Art and Design in 2010.
