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GEOFFREY FARMER
Sunday, November 23, 2008
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Geoffrey Farmer is interested in processes of theatricality – of storytelling, staging, improvisation, and the fabrication of reality.
Born in 1967 on Eagle Island, British Columbia and later based in Vancouver, Farmer was influenced early on by the ubiquity of the film industry in that city and his resulting works exist between prop and art object. He has developed an increasingly research – and process – based approach to art making, creating elaborate sculptures and installations that revolve around a narrative scripted by the artist and subsequently transform and activate both the gallery space and its visitors. Consistently in a state of flux or becoming, Farmer’s works often find their basis in a found object, memory or dream and blur the lines between experience and imagination.
Farmer attended the San Francisco Art Institute (1991 – 1992) and later graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1993. He participated in the Sydney Biennale in 2008, and has had solo exhibitions at the Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008), The Drawing Room, London, UK (2008), the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal (2007), The Power Plant, Toronto (2005), the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2000), and the Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver (2001, 2004).
His work has been shown in group exhibitions throughout North America and Europe, and is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
-Rhiannon Vogl.