Colleen Granger - HORIZON: RHIZOME

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Colleen Granger, “Horizon: Rhizome,” 2017

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EXHIBITION RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK Thursday, January 4 at 7:00pm

ARTIST STATEMENT

All individuals create personal attachments to place through various emotional and physical avenues. Horizon: Rhizome explores this process of connection guided by my own experiences on our family farm and the formation of my own sense of place on the land. It is a relationship that has shaped my identity over time and allowed the landscape to move from existing outside of me to within. In search of this transference, a formative line travels its way throughout Horizon: Rhizome manifesting itself inthree main elements: map, horizon and rhizome (roots). Maps signify humanity’s need to transform unrelatable spaces into places of belonging. The horizon is ubiquitous on the prairies and this meeting point of earth and sky leave an indelible mark upon the psyche. And roots, like plants, visualize connection to the land where our movement upon it is not constricted but instead, exists in a complex tangle of emotional and energetic rhizomes.

Carl Jung’s states, “Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome… What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Born and raised in Manitoba, Colleen Granger graduated high school in Brandon and went on to train as a laboratory technologist. Trading in the lab coat for a pair of steel-toed boots and oven mitts, she married her high school sweetheart and settled onto a farm to help raise crops and a family. Once her children both reached grade school, she decided to seek out a life long passion and returned to school to attain her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) degree from Brandon University’s Visual and Aboriginal Arts department. Her part-time status extended her time at school but allowed the preservation of her sanity and room for much needed introspection and development of artistic concepts. Granger graduated as a painting major but the themes of her thesis influenced a shift into the fiber arts.