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Donkey Skin

Haq, Passmore, Rousseau, Turnbull – 2008

Donkey Skin,​ featuring the artists ​Farheen HaQ, Heather Passmore, Chantal Rousseau​, and ​Miya Turnbull​, is an eerie visual presentation of beautiful and unsettling images dealing with the self-presentation of women in relation to the gaze, both male and female.

About the Artists

Farheen HaQ, Heather Passmore, Chantal Rousseau , and Miya Turnbull

 

Farheen HAQ​ (Victoria, BC) is a visual artist working with photo, performance and video installation. Her work explores ideas of cultural inscriptions of the body, gender, ritual and gesture. She has upcoming shows in Toronto, London and New Brunswick.

 

Heather Passmore​ lives in Vancouver where she obtained an MFA from UBC in 2004. Her practice is conceptually based and works across a variety of processes and mediums as needed. Her projects typically explore the politics of taste, class, and art through the reconfiguration of socio-historically laden materials.

 

Chantal Rousseau​ is a Toronto-based artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, video and animation. She is a member of Persona Volare, a group of 11 artists who have been showing together since the year 2000. Upcoming exhibitions include a Persona Volare intervention into the permanent collection of the Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound ON.

 

Miya Turnbull​ is a multi-disciplinary artist, working with masks and dolls, animation, projection, video performance, painting and photography. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta in 2000, and moved to Halifax in 2002. Miya has exhibited her artwork throughout Canada and has received several grants from the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage.

 

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