Cailin Blanchard – multimedia artist

February 3 to March 2, 2024

About Cailin Blanchard’s work:

My work encapsulates my experiences and inquiry into the subconscious through shamanic
journeying, dreams, connection to the Earth, and healing. I create through a variety of media ,
including but not limited to painting, textiles, ceramics, installation, and writing.

Land-based site specific work is central to my practice, as well as investigation into how our relationship to the land,
and the spiritual world, can help us heal and enrich our lives, or how it may affect us if we are
disconnected. The histories of a particular place, or elements of place such as the creatures that
inhabit it, and how those stories affect the present and future experience from the individual to the
greater community within that place is highlighted in my research and practice of making. My work
concerns how indigenous and non-indigenous communities, as well as the environment may have
been affected by industry and colonization, and how humans may have shaped or stewarded that
environment through time. Through this process, I acknowledge that I am a settler on these territories
which I live and work. Land art and Abstract Expressionism are two Western historical art movements
of interest that influence my practice.

I hope you enjoy the work, and it speaks to you in some way. Ultimately, this installation of my work is
about my journey as an artist and spiritual seeker, and how I have grown throughout my practice in
both artmaking and how I have been healing throughout the years. The intention of the exhibition is a
reminder to myself and those it is shared with that we are always growing, learning, dying, and
becoming.