with Cynthia G.Renard
Site 7 – Loyal Orange Lodge #4, Bonavista
Saturday, August 26
1–5 PM
All materials provided
Join artist Cynthia G.Renard for drop-in paper kite making workshop! Visitors will have the opportunity to make and fly their own small paper kite with guidance from the artist.
G.Renard’s Biennale installation includes large paper kites made with drawings of whales created by young students from across the Bonavista Peninsula. The installation intends to recognize and honour all of the creatures who share the seas with us.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cynthia G.Renard teaches at Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke Montreal, where they live and work. Their multilayered practice brings together political activism, identity issues, ecological concerns and the animal imaginary through a broad range of techniques. Their work includes large format paintings, paper sculptures, costumes, sound sculptures, and performance. Their repertoire draws as much from the visual language of art history as it does from popular culture, including comics, children’s book illustrations, folk tales, decorative arts, feminine crafts, burlesque theatre, and satirical cartoons. G.Renard received an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London, UK (1998). Major solo exhibitions of their work have been organized at Musée de Rimouski, QC (2022), Darling Foundry, Montreal (2020), Musée d’art de Joliette, QC (2017); the Uma Certa Falta de Coerencia, Porto, Portugal (2015); Esker Foundation, Calgary (2014); and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2005).