Tiki Mulvihill: Landlocked? and Flotsam Fixation

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Tiki Mulvihill, "Landlocked?," 2017

installation, 6.5' x 25”

The Amelia Douglas Gallery presents: Landlocked? and Flotsam Fixation. Installations and Sculptures By Tiki Mulvihill

Part of the New West Cultural Crawl, August 11 and 12, 11am-5pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 11, 1-3pm. Featuring a free collage-making workshop by the artist

Closing Reception: Friday, September 7, 4:30-7:30pm

Artist’s talk: Friday, September 7, 6:30pm (during the reception)

Landlocked? is the story of a man’s futile desire to escape his farm life for the sea. This installation pivots around a close-to-completion boat, cradled beneath a roof frame. The quarter-scale vessel, crafted from re-purposed materials, anchors to the gallery floor. Paralleling sculptural components, six collage-like drawings, fashioned from re-purposed imagery, reference daily life and one man’s obsession to forge an escape. 

Flotsam Fixation features sculptural work that implements non-valuable hierarchy objects and repurposed components from all sorts of tools and items once owned by the artist’s parents and others. These elements, encased in driftwood and mixed with other unrelated objects, evoke inquisitiveness about users and usage and fuse past and present within the cross-cultural lens that defines Canada.  

--Tiki Mulvihill