Natasha McHardy and Marina Ro y started working together to produce video works as the artist-du o Roy & McHardy in 2003. While maintaining their own separate practices ove r the past few years\, their artwork continues to share an interest in mate riality\, craft\, surreal and folk sensibilities\, and gender/race/class is sues. McHardy’s new body of work incorporates recurring motifs within a the atrical stage\, including pools\, cacti\, palm trees\, screens\, animals\, and kitsch icons. These surreal relief constructions combine abstraction a nd representation\, drawing and collage\, exoticism and colonial histories. Roy’s work explores the construction of grotesque emblems and rebuses\, us ing an archive of images that recall her past animations. Human\, animal\, plant\, mineral entities combine\, breaking down taxonomic categories betwe en living and non-living entities. Mining a naïve aesthetic\, both of their practices question hierarchies within art historical and market systems\, combining high and low art traditions\, all the while reflecting on the nat ure of power structures that fix life into an allegorical image.
McHa rdy received a BFA and MFA from the University of British Columbia and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally\, including at the Vancou ver Art Gallery\, Centre A Centre for Contemporary Art\, the Shanghai Art M useum\, Or Gallery\, the Belkin Satellite Gallery\, and the Helen Pitt Gall ery. She was recipient of the BC Binning Drawing Award in 2001. Marina Roy received a BA in French Literature at Université Laval\, a BFA from the Nov a Scotia College of Art and Design\, and her MFA from the University of Bri tish Columbia. She has shown nationally and internationally including the V ancouver Art Gallery\, the Or Gallery Berlin\, Contemporary Art Gallery\, G allery Sumukha\, Chennai & Bengaluru\, India\, and Chisenhale Gallery\, Lon don. Roy was recipient of the VIVA award in 2010.
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