Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Paige

Dawdy

Drawing and Painting

“You can never really prepare yourself for anything really. You can try to prepare your body, mind, and essence, but it never truly prepares you for reality or truth. As much as you know something is coming, your body knows what's truly going on and with time it will react to your emotions. Nothing can really describe the way the mind and body folds and bends in order to protect the person as a whole. Knowing that you will never be able to fully appreciate something you have, as you have it, is hard to think about. Then it becomes true to what they say about not knowing what you have until it's gone. We get so caught up with ourselves, life and then we lose ourselves in the future. Things that you didn't fully understand become clearer, and people you wanted to know closer get farther away. Processing lose and experience become something that seems like one, and then you dream and act in a different time or place. Thinking about time that is not now, seems hard, but in a way it becomes the lease of your worries. We break down, we hope, we cry, we think and then we process everything in a healing state. The promise of the wound is that it heals, whether I can say that's true I don’t know.”

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Paige Dawdy is a 24 year old multidisciplinary emerging artist. Her current practice has been exploring various materials with a focus in dye/watercolour and embroidery on paper and satin. Through gestures of the body and the bruise as a mark, she wants to represent the feeling of pain and healing, with the expression of emotional numbing. By staining and material, she creates a push and pull representing the presence, and the absence of the body. Paige grew up in London Ontario Canada and has been showing between London and Toronto for the past 6 years. Paige has currently graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2020, with her Bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in Drawing and Painting. In the past years Paige has won various awards including, the Hugh Murray Art award in 2016, as well as earning a OCAD U bursary in 2016,the Christopher Pratt & Mary West Bursary in 2018-2019 and the Takao Tanabe Scholarship in 2019-2020.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Major Completed, 2020
Bealart
Art program (specialization in painting and photography)
Major Completed, 2016

Painting, Installation, Watercolour, Printmaking, and textiles

2020, Awenda Inspired Ada Slaight
Toronto,ON
2020, Propeller gradex 105 drawing and painting
Toronto, ON
2020, Social distance gallery exhibition
Online
2020, Sprinktober
Online
2019, Beyond Borders OCAD U
Toronto, ON
2016, Bealart Photography-Satellite Project Space
London
2016, Bealart year end show 2016
London, ON
2016, Re[inter]act -Satellite Project Space
London, ON
2016, Drawing at First Sight OCAD U
Toronto, ON
2016, Here and There (painting show) Satellite Project Space
London, ON
2020, Mrs.W.O. Forsyth Award
OCAD U
2019, Takao Tanabe Scholarship
OCAD U
2018, Christopher Pratt & Mary West Pratt Bursary
OCAD U
2016, OCAD U Bursary
OCAD U
2016, Hugh Murray Art Award
Bealart
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