I’m beginning to understand how performance sits beside my drawing practice, sometimes touching, sometimes initiating a drawing gesture, and at times rehearsing or replacing the drawing itself. The performative aspects of my practice are generative, and often private, wherein I perform a process rather than perform for an audience.

bread for all, and roses too, 2026
This installation results from performing the gestures of making and shaping bread, drawing both material and title from the phrase used in early twentieth century labour and suffrage movements. Performed onsite prior to Lever & Counterweights at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts 611 Alexander Studios (Vancouver, BC). (photos: Rachel Topham Photography)

which rose with each breath they exhaled, 2018
At once a score and its performance, this work is prompted by texts by Zola and Dumas, the sensuality and violence of culinary markets and processes, and avian-like sounds of dogged desire. Performed as part of Not Sent Letters & Guests on 17 November 2018, at Dynamo Arts Association (photos: Alisha Weng)

murmuration for starlings, 2017
Drawn onsite to the sound of a desirous dog that had witnessed my en faisant performance. Performed as part of Antigonight , 2017 (Antigonish, NS). (photos: Helen Jones)

plucking the landscape, 2014
Throughout White Rabbits Artist Residency (Economy, NS), I repeated the plucking gesture from en faisant in various materials such as moss, bulrushes, grass, dirt, etc.

En faisant, 2013
In Caylus, France in the winter of 2013, I plucked a pheasant without instruction, documenting the awkwardness with which I enacted this (historically) common culinary process. En faisant as a project aims to merge the process (the doing—faisant) with the subject (the pheasant—faisan). It was the first in an ongoing project wherein the performance of a specific process initiates my drawing gesture. Performed in the garden of DRAWInternational with a pheasant provided by Aux Delices de Caylus (Caylus, France). (photos: Katie Belcher & John McNorton).