"Being an artist is great, because it's not hoarding when you're an artist -- it's collecting. I collect everything. My studio is a labyrinth of fabric swatches and paint chips, dollar store sea shells and cake toppers, sculpey, magnifying sheets, pictures, yarn, foam core, paper, and canvas. I have bins upon bins of mirror pieces, silver confetti hearts, holographic stickers, glittery ribbon, and mini disco balls. Like a magpie to a piece of aluminum foil, I am drawn to shiny, pretty things regardless of their actual value." Currently based in Calgary, AB, emerging artist Erin Belanger earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. A lover of all things kitsch, Erin's theoretical and studio research is infused with a Victorian-influenced sense of theatricality, using humour and absurd imagery to playfully engage with themes of collecting,
preservation, and memory; anxiety, excess and obsession; imitation, the inauthentic, and the value of mass-produced vs. hand-made objects.
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