Devon Knowles' practice addresses current and historical models of production and optical phenomenon.
Through negotiating several models of production, in particular the shifting between the industrial and the
hand crafted, Knowles adopts a role from within the sampled models to become the producer.
With this adopted role Knowles can move freely between areas allowing the choices of material and processes
to fit the project parameters. Questions of how value is placed upon the produced object can be found in ideas
surrounding work, skill, time, labour and assesments of taste and judegment. Alongside this, Knowles uses a material
language which is double edged. In one instance the material langugae broadens the focus to extend to colour, shape
and form and in the next it can refocus for example, towards ideas surrounding the industrial, the crafted and the
regressive act. Combined these seemingly antagonistic elements form new relationships and define her work.
She has received her MFA from the University of Victoria in 2008 and holds a BA Honours from the University of
Guelph. Her work has been shown throughout Canada and the United States.

Download CV as PDF

Selected Articles, Essays and Reviews

http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=281

http://www.straight.com/article-176262/contemporary-artists-get-crafty-and-subversive

http://www.orgallery.org/in-the-diagram-below-line-ab-and-line-gh-intersect-at-point-d

http://finearts.uvic.ca/visualarts/mfa_students/html/shows/mfa08/index.htm

http://www.ps-exhibitions.com/2007/partfive/index.htm