Canada
Statement
Curiosity about the human body and the spaces around it has consistently preoccupied Lloyd’s artistic imagination. Specifically, Lloyd have been asking questions about the bodies of women and how they relate to the architectures that direct their movement. How do material structures inside and outside bodies influence identity and agency? How do women find freedom now? As a visual artist, Lloyd asks these questions using fibres of all kinds with traditional and improvised textile methods resulting in costumes, performances and installations. In doing so, the physical activity of tying and untying knots demonstrates the theoretical activity of connection and distinction. That is to say, how we join with and separate from our environments.
Profile
GlogauAIR resident from October 2019 to March 2020
GlogauAIR Project
During the residency at GlogauAIR, my time will be devoted to learning local textile traditions and working toward the creation of a fibres based work that responds to contemporary gender politics in Berlin. Taking advantage of the multi-disciplinary setting of GlogauAIR and collaborating with artists across fields, I aim to make an artwork that furthers my longtime interest in gendered space. I am currently studying weaving traditions of Northern New Mexico with a congruent focus. Navajo, Hopi and Anasazi weaving practices are divergent, reflecting temporal, spatial, political and cosmological histories and realities. It is my intention to investigate comparable textile expressions.
CV Summary
EDUCATION
- 2015 Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Master of Fine Arts: Fibres and Material Practices
- 2010-2012 Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Department of Design
- 2000 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. Bachelor of Arts, Political Studies; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art (Distinction)
AWARDS
- 2017 Independent Artists Program grant | Saskatchewan Arts Board
- 2013 Joseph Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship | Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil (SSHRC) of Canada
- 2008 – 2000 Independent Artists Program grant | Saskatchewan Arts Board
EXHIBITIONS + PERFORMANCES
- 2019 Angel Tree, performance and installation; Marfa, Texas.
- 2018 Hammock,installation (costume and performance developed in collaboration with Femme5); ‘Re-celebrating the Body’, New Dance Horizons, Mackenzie Art Gallery,Regina, SK
- 2017 Experiences No.2 (collaboration with Femme5), costumes; New Dance Horizons, John Paul II Centre, Regina, SK
- 2017 Ghost (by Lisa Wicklund), headpieces; Saskatchewan Fashion Week, Regina, SK
- 2015 Princess Agnus Dei, multimedia production and installation, Montreal QC
- 2013 Angel Montreal (performed by Bonnie Giroux), performance at various public locations, Montreal, QC
- 2013 Ultramoderne, group exhibition; Art Mûr, Montreal, QC
- 2013 Bells 13 (by Robin Poitras), various public locations, Festival TransAmèriques , Montreal, QC
- 2012 Princess: Prayer to Leonard, performance; Nuit Blanche, Parc du Portugal, Montreal, QC
- 2012 Work, group exhibition; Grover Building, Montreal,QC
- 2010 Thread Bound, group exhibition; Art Gallery of Regina, SK
- 2008 CEO, performance; 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, ON
- 2008 Princess Mont Royal, guerilla performance; Parc du Mont Royal, Montreal,QC
- 2008 Triangle (by Robin Poitras), Chapel Arts, Vancouver, BC
- 2008 Mother, Sinergia 5a Trõbada de Performance, Centre Culturel de la Merce, Girona, Spain
- 2008 Mother, performance; Cathèdrale de Notre Dame, Paris, France
- 2007 Angel, performance;LIVE Canadian and International Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver, BC
- 2007 Some Times Three (by Robin Poitras), Chapel Arts, Vancouver
- 2007 CEO,Deep Structure: Deep Play; Performance and New Media Festival, Neutral Ground, Regina, SK
- 2007 Angel, performance; Cathedral Village Arts Festival, Regina, SK
- 2007 Triangle (by Robin Poitras), Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
- 2007 Left of Centre (by Robin Poitras), Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre and Gallery, Regina, SK
- 2007 CEO, Blueprints Series, New Dance Horizons, Regina, SK
- 2006 Princess, performance; Crossfiring / Mama Wetotan, Claybank Brick Plant National Historic Site, Claybank, SK
- 2001 Croona—A Fairytale, solo exhibition; Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current, SK; and The New Gallery, Calgary, AB
