Ahreum Lee
May 1 - June 5
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Ahreum Lee is a musician and interdisciplinary media artist from Seoul, South Korea, currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. She is interested in examining socio-political issues embedded in everyday technologies, such as Google Maps, Predictive Text Algorithms, and AI virtual assistant voices. She uses a range of media, including games, video, audio, performance, 3D-printing sculpture, 3D rendered images, and stock images from online and web art.
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While at Struts, Ahreum will be working on In the Name of the Moon, We Won’t Forgive It! , an AR game that transforms the struggles of microaggression into interactive storytelling and collective empowerment. Through game mechanics and community workshops, the project fosters solidarity by turning personal experiences into shared strategies for resistance.
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photo credit: Camille Dubuc
Patrick Lundeen
June 11 - July 16
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Patrick Lundeen was born in Lethbridge, Alberta (Siksikaitsitapi [Blackfoot Confederacy] territory). He is currently based in Kelowna, BC (unceded Okanagan Syilx territory) where he teaches drawing, painting, sculpture and art theory at UBC Okanagan. His interdisciplinary artistic practice includes explorations of painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, video, food, performance, and public art. Recently the work has mostly involved kinetic sculptures that become animated through viewer interaction. Lundeen’s visual strategies employ humour, sensory experience, and a rough and visceral aesthetic as a means to unpack social and political contexts. Lundeen’s work takes on the appearance of garbage decay and chaos to call attention to inconsistencies and inequalities within the white cube gallery space and to question its inherent hierarchies.
In addition to visual art, Patrick is also a dubiously talented musician with 5 (soon to be 6) self-released collections of music on record and cassette.
"During my artist-in-residence, I will produce several interactive sculptures that move, make sound and invite viewer participation. I will do a workshop about how I get things to move and make sound. I would love to meet you."
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Charlie Star
July 23 - August 27
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Charlie Star is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural worker whose practice constellates sound, collage, multimedia installation and performance. She holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Waterloo (2024). She is also a second generation astrologer and uses astrology as a framework for research alongside Black diasporic studies, DJ scholarship, and exploring the intersections of personal and collective identity. Recent highlights include her MFA thesis exhibition, In The Mix (2024) at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and No One’s Little Bam Bam at Lumen Fest (2023). She has also performed as a DJ and solo artist, most recently at venues such as the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, the Niagara Artists Centre, and with the Tri-City Synthesizer Society. As an educator, Charlie currently teaches at McMaster University, has previously taught at the University of Waterloo, and is a coordinator for Dr. Keleta-Mae’s project Black And Free.
While at Struts, Charlie wlil be working on a research-creation project to develop a series of experimental sound compositions that explore Black music in Sackville and the Maritimes. Using local archives and field recordings, the compositions will highlight the contributions of Black artists to the region’s musical landscape.
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photo credit: Zoe Tipper.
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Sophia Lawrence & Libbie Farrell
October 22 - November 26
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Libbie Farrell (They/Them) is a white settler and Interdisciplinary artist from rural Treaty 6 Territory. They currently live and work in Edmonton, AB. Libbie’s practice spans across textiles, printmaking, and new media with the mediums often intersecting. Their practice explores topics of gender, queerness as well as whimsy and humour. In 2024, they were an artist in residence at SNAP Gallery, the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture (KIAC) and the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts.Libbie Farrell (They/Them) is a white settler and Interdisciplinary artist from rural Treaty 6 Territory. They currently live and work in Edmonton, AB. Libbie’s practice spans across textiles, printmaking, and new media with the mediums often intersecting. Their practice explores topics of gender, queerness as well as whimsy and humour. In 2024, they were an artist in residence at SNAP Gallery, the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture (KIAC) and the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts.
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Sophia Lawrence (she/they) is a queer multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and youth-educator living and working in Kjipuktuk, (Halifax). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University and is currently studying creative writing at Dalhousie University. Sophia works primarily in painting, film, puppetry, and drawing. Her creative pursuits are united by a playful and whimsical spirit with themes of environmental anxiety and queer futurism. Her work is rooted in introspection and humour, with the belief that laughter and play can be powerful tools for processing difficult emotions.
Farrell and Lawrence will be working with stop motion, paper-mache, and video to produce a multimedia video piece and under the working title of JOURNEY BITCH. The work explores the frustration and humour of navigating the crumbling health care system in the Maritimes.