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Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Meet the Artist
Paige
Bowen
aka. Paige Bowen, Painter / Sculpture / Multidisciplinary
“Through life we are taught to endure spaces of uncomfortability - fast paced working environments built to break people down or familial homes filled with tension. Growing up as an international nomad, my experience of home is less about place and rather about a sense of safety. I connect the spaces I've come to think of as home in South Africa with the realities of suburban living in Canada. In making this work, I delved into the meditative art-making processes of embroidery, woodcarving, and painting. Embroidery is a way for me to connect to my heritage of textile arts, using my grandmother's sewing scissors to cut my thread. In painting, I draw on impressionist and romantic painting styles, with gestural movements capturing my memories of space. Woodcarving became a way to solidify and ground the work, capturing the memories and love in urban spaces that sometimes are left unnoticed. The final body of work is tactile and immersive, inviting viewers to experience the sanctuary I felt throughout the making process. ”
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Paige Bowen is a multidisciplinary artist, student, and creative from South Africa. She graduated from George Brown College’s Foundational Art Certificate in 2021 and OCAD University’s BFA in Drawing And Painting in 2024. She draws on her experience as an international nomad to study ideas of home, and connection - to both family and nature and isolation. Paige works in many mediums including but not limited to Woodcarving, Embroidery, and Painting. Paige has recently been featured in the 2024 Awenda Inspired Exhibit at the Ada Sleight Gallery at OCAD University and the 2024 Inspiration Studios Art Auction.
George Brown College
Art and Design Foundation
Minor Completed, 2021
Woodcarving Oil Painting Embroidery Sculpture Landscape Painting
2024, Inspiration Studio Auction
OCADu Great Hall
2024, Awenda inspired 2024
Ada Slaight Gallery
2024, Pancakes and Booze
Revival Event Center
2023, Awenda Inspired 2023
Ada Slaight Gallery
2023, Plein-Air Show
Arts & Letters Club
2023, Members Summer Show
Arts & Letters Club
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