Stanley Park Environmental Art - Artists

Shirley Wiebe

John Hemsworth, Peter von Tiesenhausen • Davide Pan, T'Uy'Tanat Cease Wyss • Shirley Wiebe • Tania Willard

Shirley Wiebe is an installation-based artist whose practice considers sculpture, space and light. Shirley explores a wide range of materials that relate the work to our physical gestures and interactions with the natural and built environment by way of playful irony. Much of this work is temporal and ephemeral, leaving no trace, other than memory and documentation.

Shirley's recent work concentrates both on the land and on the interaction of a community with its environment. She has created site works in a number of landscapes and galleries in the Pacific Northwest and completed several public art projects in Vancouver. Shirley has been awarded previous art residencies in the Yukon, the USA and in Turkey, as well as locally at UBC Farm.

www.wooloo.org/wiebe
www.i-park.org/ShirleyLenaWiebe.html
www.naturalmanufactured.org/wiebe.htm

Artist Statement for the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project:

The collaborative nature of the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project appeals to me and is in alignment with my ongoing work. I have developed a number of site works and gallery projects that focus on diverse geographic regions where research and dialogue with others is a key element.

Stanley Park serves as the heart of the Vancouver community, much like an organ in the body. The devastation of the park is like a wound to the physical body and there are a number of sensitive ecological issues being addressed with its restoration. I want to explore the social and physical relationships that take place in this forest within a city, how they shape the park and the fragile balances that are present.