Shannon Armishaw

 September 2012 Here I am, an emerging artist, born and raised in Ottawa, who has recently moved to Toronto to see if I can make a splash. Although I moved to the big city of Toronto with bells on, I quickly found myself longing for […]

My sound-sensitive lightbox:  I use images of demolitions, buildings quickly blown from the inside out. A building that scrapes the clouds often comes to represent a landmark in our sense of place and identity, a sign of time passing and decay. Someone decides that the […]

In the series Tracing Projections I seek to capture the depth of my character beyond the surface of flesh, with portraits rendered and fragmented on multiple layers of transparencies assembled within a deep handmade wooden frame. It is in these works that I negotiate levels […]

The cycle which individuals find themselves, of creation and recreation of the self, is much like the method with which we handle the cities that surround us.

“tear down this place, not to begin again, but be always building, always disappearing.”

Large crayon drawings that I did to loosen myself up and have a little fun when I was spending many late nights painting.