SHEENA MCCRAE (CANADA/UK)

Sheena Macrae (born in Canada, based in London) works with the art of compression by playing with our societies’ fascination with speed, entertainment, information and nostalgia. She manipulates the readymades of the cultural industries, takes possession and in twisting the principles of post-production, becomes a sort of VJ (Video-Jockey), appropriating and parodying the standardized narrative of Hollywood clichés and film language, underlying the all-powerful ‘entertainment’.

Macrae graduated from Emily Carr Institute with a BFA in 1999 and Goldsmiths College, MA in 2002. She has exhibited and won awards internationally. She has recently had monograph exhibition at Musée d'Art Contemporain Val-de-Marne, Paris, shown at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Fieldgate Gallery, London and has been the artist-in-residence at Monash University in Melbourne. She is currently working on a book project and will be presenting work at Cyperpipe’s HAIP Festival, Ljubljana and The Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka.

This information was current at the time of her residency.