Mirjana Borovickic: Resident Child

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Mirjana Borovickic, "Without Country, Without Home," 2019

Resident Child: an Exhibition, Opening Reception & Artist Talk Featuring UBCO Artist-in-Residence Mirjana Borovickic

Opening Reception: Monday, July 29th, 7pm-9pm

“I was born in Bosnia and immigrated to Canada in 1995 at the age of 12, after living through a civil war,” shares Kelowna artist Mirjana Borovickic, the Caetani Centre’s inaugural UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCSS)/Caetani Artist-in-Residence.

Currently, she’s working with textiles and acrylic on a large mixed media series titled Resident Child. In this series she explores her childhood memories and war trauma, creating images from her past using previously owned garments, mostly from her own children. 

 “It’s been a self-guided therapy session for me. I’ve been able confront my difficult past and release emotions I had suppressed since childhood.” - Mirjana Borovickic

Throughout her life Mirjana has always been fascinated with textiles; her love for textiles was further developed during her teenage years when she opted to take sewing in high school. 

She graduated with a BFA in Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan in 2019. 

Come meet Mirjana and experience her show, Resident Child, during the opening reception on Monday, July 29th, 7pm - 9pm, as well as during gallery hours on Tuesday, July 30^th from 11am-4pm in the Caetani Cultural Centre Studio Gallery.

This new partnership between UBC Okanagan and Vernon’s Caetani Cultural Centre is helping make artistic dreams come true for two UBCO student-artists.

To have a residency funded by the new UBCO/Caetani partnership removes the barriers of the very-real financial challenges a number of artists face working full-time on their art career, explains Bryce Traister, dean of UBCO’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS).

Caetani Centre’s Artist-in-Residence programs are available to artists working on creative projects anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months in length. 

The artist stays and creates at the Caetani Cultural Centre and is invited to share workshops, readings and exhibitions with the North Okanagan community.