Ellen Moffat

Ellen Moffat (born 1954) is a Canadian media artist who works with sound, image and text in installation and performance. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she now resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Ellen Moffat
Performance at PAVED Arts in November, 2011
Born1954
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Education
Known forMedia Art, Sound Art, Installation Art
Websitehttp://www.ellenmoffat.ca/

Education

Moffat obtained a BA in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Regina.

Artwork

As an artist, Moffat has exhibited her work throughout Canada and internationally and has completed a number of artist's residencies. These include residencies at Video Vérité (now PAVED Arts) in Saskatoon, The Dunlop Gallery in Regina, CARFAC Saskatchewan in Prince Albert,[1] and the Canada Council for the Arts' Paris Residency in 2012.[2]

Moffat has also been involved in many art organizations as a cultural worker and as a board member and has worked as a sessional instructor at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina.[1]

Language and speech have been ongoing subjects of exploration for Moffat. The installation entitled "COMP_OSE" exhibited in a national tour in 2008 and 2009, included two interactive interfaces - one creating language as sound, the other as text. These "instruments" engaged gallery goers in collaboration.[3] These artistic concerns extend to include the slippage that occurs in translation, as in the work "she i her" exhibited at The Dunlop Gallery in 2015.[4] In 2017, she was commissioned to create Small Sonorities: Material Signals, a four-minute, multi-screen video as part of the Remai Modern Art Gallery web commission project.[5]

Over the years, she has collaborated with many other artists and musicians including Jeff Morton and Kim Morgan.

Solo exhibitions

Exhibitions featuring Moffat's work in chronological order:

  • (2013) she i her, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon
  • (2011) PickUpPutDown, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
  • (2011) Lines, Tones and Spaces, Port Loggia, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax
  • (2011) vBox, Project Space, Open Sound, Surrey Art Gallery
  • (2011) COMP OSE, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario
  • (2009) COMP OSE, Doris McCarthy Gallery, U of T-Scarborough, Toronto
  • (2008) COMP OSE, College Building Gallery, U of S, Saskatoon
  • (2006) Claybank Voices, Art Gallery of Swift Current
  • (2006) BLOW, Estevan National Exhibition Centre, Estevan
  • (2006) SoundsNervouse, The New Gallery, Calgary
  • (2006) SoundsNervouse, WPK Kennedy Centre, North Bay
  • (2005) Fault Lines, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
  • (2004) BLOW, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
  • (2001) Line Break, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury
  • (1999) Shades of Black and White, Neutral Ground, Regina
  • (1998) Shades of Black and White, The Little Gallery, Prince Albert
  • (1995) Still Life/Nature Morte, MFA Exhibition, Scotia Centre's Galleria, Regina

References
  1. Warland, Betsy (2004). BLOW: ellen moffat. Saskatoon, SK: Mendel Art Gallery. ISBN 1-896359-41-8.
  2. Lau, Yam (2014). "A Case In Physiognomic Reading". BlackFlash Magazine.
  3. Lovrod, Marie (July 2009). "Sounding Capacities for Co-Creation: Ellen Moffat's COMP_OSE". Fuse Magazine. 32 (3): 42–43.
  4. Fornwald, Blair (Summer 2015). "On Language and the Limits of Legibility". At the Dunlop.
  5. "Remai Modern: March Web Commission by Ellen Moffat". Galleries West. 2017-02-28. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
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