After exploring the rooftops, city streets, and underground world in Paris.
Author: Shannon Armishaw

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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 […]

The Spectacular Falling City (And We Could Not Look Away)
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 […]

Show Installation Documentation
Underbelly Pillow-Talk Group show August 2012 Weathered in Lace Solo Show at Chez Lucien August 2012 Capital Chill 2012 Midnight’s Paces: Ottawa Art Gallery Art Rental Solo Show August 2011 Rose Tinted: Solo Show at Flock Gallery August 2011 Hand Down Your Pants Group show […]

Tracing Projections- Shadowboxes
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 Body
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.”

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