Cameron McLellan
McLellan’s practice centres around the built environment, rethinking architectural lexicon and material function through painting, sewing and mixed media. Through these processes, typical function is diffused, as architecture, economics and aesthetics interweave. The materiality of the work underscores the layered histories that define the urban context and our experience of it.
Recent exhibitions include Empty Gallery, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and AHVA Gallery/UBC. McLellan holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia (2018) and lives and work in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the xwməθkwəyə̓ m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlí̓lwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Recent exhibitions include Empty Gallery, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and AHVA Gallery/UBC. McLellan holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia (2018) and lives and work in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the xwməθkwəyə̓ m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlí̓lwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
"The Accretion arose through study of the strata of the built environment - at a broader city level as well as the intimate scale of domestic spaces. As these spaces shift and evolve over time, and we inhabit them to varying degrees, memories and experiences accrue. Gaston Bachelard’s notion of the home as a repository for imagination and potential underscores the works, which amass a collective material history anchored in the personal. In working with salvaged house paint, cut canvas and other assorted media, an image of contemporary Vancouver emerges, suggesting varied histories and aesthetics." (Cameron McLellan)
