About This Project

Laurel Terlesky

Artist talk

During the CASV Whistler Art Tour, artist Laurel Terlesky gave a talk to members about her art practice in Squamish.

Laurel Terlesky is an interdisciplinary Canadian artist and educator. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in International Creative Practice from Transart Institute (New York / Berlin), accredited by Plymouth University (UK) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Victoria (Canada). Her works have been experienced across North America on screen — television, large-scale projection, and the internet — and in exhibitions.

Quest University Canada hosted Terlesky as Artist-In-Residence is 2015 where she created the installation, Hallowed Winds, with participation of faculty, students and staff as well as the local community of Squamish. Her exhibition was additionally supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Squamish Arts Council.

Currently, Terlesky is working on a new series of works called “Surface Rupture” supported by the British Columbia Arts Council. Terlesky’s creative practice explores tacit knowledge through the generation of objects made by and for touch. Her works are further marked by time capsules of audio that pull on one’s fabric of perception. These material transformations delivered through the imprint of touch, call for a momentary pause in a reflective space. She provides tactile encounters to assert what we know by way of our flesh. Codified in her objects are the results of explorations in vulnerable communication and empathic response. Her process aims to bridge gaps, lessen disconnections, grey out false dualisms and repair places of missed communication.