Svea Ferguson (she/her) is a sculptor from Mohkínstsis/Calgary. Her work was commissioned for the 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art and has been shown across North America and abroad. Notable exhibitions include the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Esker Foundation, Division Gallery Toronto, Holland Project NV and Art Athina in Athens, Greece. She received the BMO 1st Art Prize for Alberta in 2015. Her work is included in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and TD Canada Trust.

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My work explores the physical and relational boundaries of certain materials that I consider industrial textiles. My current material interests come from years of primarily using linoleum and vinyl flooring in my work but have expanded to include many flexible industrial materials like rubber, PVC, and various pliable thermoplastics. These ultra-processed materials are most often designed to be installed in domestic and industrial spaces and are made to withstand aggressive physical interaction in their daily lives. I am interested in taking these materials out of their usual context to explore their relationship with the spaces they inhabit and the human body. As an artist, I am interested in ideas of material agency, particularly in the ability of commonplace materials to reflect and disrupt our physical experiences.

Svea Ferguson
sveaferguson@hotmail.com