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JILL PRICE

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 Jill Price is a Canadian Artist of German and Welsh descent currently residing on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, a region identified within treaties 16 and 18. 
 
Price achieved her BFA at the University of Western Ontario and recently completed a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario.  A recipient of a 2016 SSHRC national research grant, a 2017 Michael Smith Foreign Study Bursary  and receiving the 2017 Research and Writing Award for her research on how textiles environmentally and socially impact geography, Price continues to explore the histories and agency of materials while pursuing a research-creation PhD in Cultural studies at Queens University.
 
Also a trained educator with the Ontario Teachers Federation, Price balances her studio practice by working as a Curator and teaching.  Price is currently represented by Westland Gallery, Be Contemporary and is an artist-in-residence at the AKIN AUTO BDLG studios in Toronto.  See Jill's website here and her page on the Driving Force site.

​Earth Day 2021: Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth

Jill Price, UNLEASHED, 2021
35:05-minute video recorded and performed by the artist.

Continuing to investigate my role as an artist in times of truth and reconciliation and deep ecological crisis, Unleashed is a durational performance in which I carefully set free the skin and fur of a rabbit from the form of a human hat in order to point to the liveliness and vitalness of different species.  Informed by the historical research that outlines how rabbits in Britain were often only hunted for sport and entertainment as their meat was considered undesirable to the upper class, this work signifies my desire to unmake myself from perspectives, processes and consumption that prioritizes the accumulation, adornment and entertainment of humans over the life and well-being of the elemental commons (soil, water, air) and more-than-human beings.  

One of many practice-led investigations researching how unmaking can help us partially undo anthropogenic views, values and aesthetics first introduced by Europeans exploring, trading, colonizing and settling North America, Unleashed materially speaks back to the economic imperialism of the early North Atlantic fur trade and how we can see this exploitation of animals iterated in industrial fur farms and the ongoing global displacement and extinction of species and their natural habitats today. Unleashed is also currently on exhibit as part of a larger installation at the Orillia Art and Historical Museum entitled UNFURLED: Unsettling the Archive From a More-Than-Human Perspective.

Recent work by Jill Price

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Jill Price, Fur Lined, 2020, Mink, Rabbit, Fake Fur, Hudson Bay Coat and Driftwood
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Jill Price, LAND as Archive Installation Shot VI- South Gallery YYZ, 2017
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Jill Price, Material Shadows (rabbit, raccoon & beaver), 2018, reclaimed fur coats, charcoal and graphite on paper, 16' x 20' x 8' variation
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Jill Price, Material Shadows installation shot, 2018. Offsite Design, Toronto, Ontario
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Jill Price, Material Shadow (beaver), 2019, charcoal, graphite and fur shadow on watercolour paper


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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