Imago Bursary 2016/ Laura Watson

from September 23 until October 21 2016 at GALERIE SANS NOM.
Opening Friday September 23, 5pm to 7pm

Imago Artist-run print studio offers an annual bursary to a candidate who has earned their Bachelors in Fine Arts from Mount Allison University or l’Université de Moncton within the past five years. This bursary enables young artists to continue their practice in contemporary printmaking in New-Brunswick.

Correspondences/Correspondances

Laura Watson is an emerging artist from Georgetown, Ontario, currently living in Sackville, New Brunswick. A graduate from the BFA program at Mount Allison University, she works in drawing, painting, printmaking and embroidery. She disseminates her work for free through an international postal exchange and may or may not be a member of the open drawing collective, The Society of Anonymous Drawers.

For two and a half years, Laura Watson has operated a free, international, mail art exchange, hand-making periodical parcels of drawn, printed and embroidered objects which are mailed around the world. The parcels, made up of zines, paper dolls, badges, mixed CDs and posters, are sent to participants who subscribe by sending mail of their choice as a trade. This project is open to all and has so far manifested as 9 installments, with approximately 200 parcels sent to over 20 countries, the purpose being to foster connection and communication, employing the post for its tactility and the extra investment it demands.

Correspondences will present a record of recent and related work of the mail exchange project, with imagery drawn both from observation and from folklore, mixing the everyday with myth, magic and a lingering, uncertain history. Laura Watson will correspond with visitors by post throughout the exhibition.

Imago wishes to thank Galerie Sans Nom for their collaboration.