Kristen Bounds writes about Awi’nakola for ecologyst
Published: October 29, 2022

Comprised of artists, scientists, and Indigenous knowledge keepers coming together through the confluence of their work and research, the Awi’nakola Project is a research group working to keep the rich ecosystems of the some 2.7% of high productivity old growth left in the province intact.

The Role of Art in a Climate Emergency
Pau Waelder
October, 2022

Pau Waelder responds to recent events contemplating The Role of Art in a Climate Emergency through different artists lenses including Joanie Lemercier, Marina Zurkow, Tamiko Thiel, Kelly Richardson, Diane Drubay, Alexandra Crouwers, and Katie Torn.

‘Unsigned’ by Operator & Anika Meier
A collection of 100 artist signatures
Published: September 14, 2022

“…the addition of a woman’s signature can devalue artwork to the extent that female artists are more likely to leave their work unsigned.” (Helen Gorrill) The collection reverses the current negative value of the signatures through their transformation into artworks themselves. Unsigned is a conceptual artwork raising the symbolic and literal value of women and non-binary artists’ signatures.

In conversation with Sterling Eyford
Aired: August 15, 2022

Art in a time of climate change – CBC Radio’s Sterling Eyford in conversation with Kelly Richardson about creating art about the environment and social inequity during an environmental crisis.

Odette Auger reviews Halcyon Fog at KAG
Published: summer issue, 2022

Halcyon Fog is a multi-faceted, immersive exhibition with supporting speaking events. Through projections, video and digital art, the exhibit is aimed at getting viewers to think deeper about their own implication in these destructive systems, and to break the barrier between internal reactions and action.

Pau Waelder interviews Kelly Richardson
Published: April, 2022

Beauty invites viewers to engage with otherwise very difficult subject. Tragedy in the work is located in the truth of what we’ve wrought, the conditions within which we now find ourselves, and the urgent call for us to collectively face it in order to address it. After decades of scientific warnings riddled with predictions of what life might be like in the future, our path hasn’t changed course.

Lyn Richards reviews Halcyon Fog at KAG
Published: March 10, 2022

Richardson points out the hubris in our fantasy of human specialness, our refusal to acknowledge we’re simply one of many species within the world’s astonishing web of life, and our denial that whatever we do to the environment, we do to ourselves as well. Richardson courts irony by turning the same digital media that potently…

Exploring our relationship with nature; Kamloops Art Gallery presents ‘Halcyon Fog’
Aired: February, 2022

Curator Charo Neville takes us on a tour of Kelly Richardson’s solo exhibition at the KAG which presents still and moving image works which draw attention to our relationship with nature and how it relates to climate change.

Aired: Feb 3, 2022

Kamloops Art Gallery curator Charo Neville gives CBC Radio a tour of Kelly Richardson’s largest Canadian solo exhibition ‘Halcyon Fog’.

Listen here and visit through April 2, 2022!