Faculty of Art
Integrated Media
Meet the Artist
Ghislan
Sutherland-Timm
Multidisciplinary Moving Image Artist
“In creating "incomplete complete" works I define great happenings to occur in-between the frames of a moving image where the absence of sound and image is everything. Negative space is everything. ”
Ghislan Sutherland-Timm (Jiz-lan/Jess-lin) (they/she) is a multidisciplinary moving image artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Their artistic practice is influenced by their ancestral ties and reconnection to their Afro-Caribbean heritage and Carib roots. Their work is also ignited by the ephemerality and tactility of sound and film. Collage-making is frequently utilized within their practice to shape non-linear narratives and ambiguous beings of identity and landmarking. This reflects the intersections of their multicultural queer identity and unravels the mythologies and romanticization of home and homecoming.
Toronto Metropolitan University: The Chang School for Continuing Education
Design for Arts and Entertainment, Certificate
Major In progress, 2023
Seneca College
Film & Television Career Launch Program: Skill Catalyst Certificate
Major Completed, 2021
York Unviersity
Film Production
Major Transferred
Video Art Sound Design Production Production Design Installation Graphic Art Drawing Analogue Collage-making Performance
2023, Black Experimental Film Festival
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Toronto, ON Canada
2022, Narratives Through Global Space: Constructing Self Through Experimental - Femininities & Queerness in Film
Toronto, ON Canada & Manila, Philippines
2022, Lobby Gallery Exhibition accompanying the production of “Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers” by Makambe K. Simamba
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, ON Canada
2021, the cut, the tear & the remix: contemporary collage and Black futures
Virtual exhibition presented by McMaster Museum of Art and Nia Centre for the Arts
2021, Halton Black History Awareness Society: Emancipation Art Exhibition
Sisnett Lobby of the Town of Halton Hills Cultural Centre. Halton Hills, ON Canada
2020, Black Student Association: Black History Month Exhibition "Roots"
Ada Slaight Gallery. Toronto, ON Canada
2019, First Year Art Celebration Exhibition
Ada Slaight Gallery. Toronto, ON Canada
2019, Drawing at First Sight
Ada Slaight Gallery. Toronto, ON Canada
2017, Fugue: Canadian First Person Alternative Films
IG Art Gallery. Shanghai, China
2021, Nominee, Best Experimental Film
OCAD University President’s Award
2021, Recipient, Best Video Editing
OCAD University President's Award
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