Fifty Fifty Arts Collective presents Mending Gently

The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective presents Mending Gently, a solo art exhibition by Jenna Short. Jenna is a Dakelh artist from the Saik’uz First Nation. She has always felt connected to forests, oceans, and the land, which became grounding spaces in her life and provided a safe blanket and place to breathe during times of uncertainty.

This connection later influenced Jenna’s art practice. She often works with figurative and landscape subjects through oil painting, watercolour, and wood carvings. Her art practice heavily includes plywood, with the material acting as colonized and commercialized pieces of land that are being returned to the body. According to Short, Mending Gently explores themes of feeling disconnected from place and the effects of the industrialized society on the natural body.

Where: The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, 2516 Douglas St., until Sept. 10th