Talia Shipman
b. in Vancouver, BC. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
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Talia Shipman’s work bridges art, food, social gathering, and social justice. While her photography and immersive installations raise questions about our place in the world and our fabricated environments, her recent transition to a community and culinary-based practice was born out of an urge to connect with others and support social causes.
Her practice often explores the combination of aesthetics that examine the pursuit of lifestyle and design. Often highlighting the layering of references, citing issues of cultural identity, social conventions and traditions, Shipman creates works that lend themselves to the texture of photo-based collage and installation. Her permanent public projects Blue Space (Water Wall) (2015) and Water is Taught by Thirst (Submerge) (2015) are both prominently on display in Toronto's Bay Street Financial District. In addition, she has exhibited both in Canada and US as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival (2015) at the Drake Hotel, Photorama (2008, 2013-15) at Gallery TPW in Toronto and Greenhouse (2015) at One Mile Gallery in Kingston, NY.
Shipman was born in Vancouver and currently resides in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA in Photography from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and has a background in cultural studies, design, and art history. She has received multiple international awards and her work has been exhibited in galleries and private collections across the globe.
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Talia Shipman’s work bridges art, food, social gathering, and social justice. While her photography and immersive installations raise questions about our place in the world and our fabricated environments, her recent transition to a community and culinary-based practice was born out of an urge to connect with others and support social causes.
Her practice often explores the combination of aesthetics that examine the pursuit of lifestyle and design. Often highlighting the layering of references, citing issues of cultural identity, social conventions and traditions, Shipman creates works that lend themselves to the texture of photo-based collage and installation. Her permanent public projects Blue Space (Water Wall) (2015) and Water is Taught by Thirst (Submerge) (2015) are both prominently on display in Toronto's Bay Street Financial District. In addition, she has exhibited both in Canada and US as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival (2015) at the Drake Hotel, Photorama (2008, 2013-15) at Gallery TPW in Toronto and Greenhouse (2015) at One Mile Gallery in Kingston, NY.
Shipman was born in Vancouver and currently resides in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA in Photography from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and has a background in cultural studies, design, and art history. She has received multiple international awards and her work has been exhibited in galleries and private collections across the globe.
Talia Shipman | Turquoise Period
Art in the Trees | Gallery Stratford
June 2022
"I fell to the bottom of the sea. All I could see was the turquoise that surrounded me. Or was it all in my head? Where did it come from and where was it going? So I followed it far and wide, across the universe. I wandered the streets amidst the grays, browns, and beiges, and asked myself: does warm mean bright and bright mean happy? It’s only a color, after all; and so began my fascination with the colour turquoise.
Turquoise is not often used in North American architecture and design and began as a project I gave myself while I traveled. Ironically, it has completely taken me over and become the eyes in which I now see the world – often to the point of obsession. In colour psychology, turquoise controls balance and stability and evokes the infinite. A combination of blue and a small amount of yellow, it fits in on the colour scale between green and blue – a neutral colour in between extremes.
After being raised on the ocean, and leaving home at seventeen years old, turquoise is the balance and consistency that I have carried with me throughout the ups and downs and that life has taken me on – the different tones and shades, like crashing waves. Over the time span of eight year, fifteen apartments, twelve countries, and fifty cities, it has become my religion, my sanity, my reality and escape; the recurrent emptiness and intimacy of the images calming, evoking the notion of absence and solitude as possibility." (Talia Shipman)
Gallery Stratford’s new outdoor exhibition venue extending the gallery experience into the physical and natural environment. Positioned in the trees between Upper Queens Park, home of The Stratford Festival’s Festival Theatre, and Gallery Stratford, Art in the Trees provides opportunities for artists working in lens based or digital media to take their work outside the gallery space, interacting with new audiences and animating public space in a four season 24/7 outdoor environment.
follow this link for the feature about this project on akimbo
Turquoise is not often used in North American architecture and design and began as a project I gave myself while I traveled. Ironically, it has completely taken me over and become the eyes in which I now see the world – often to the point of obsession. In colour psychology, turquoise controls balance and stability and evokes the infinite. A combination of blue and a small amount of yellow, it fits in on the colour scale between green and blue – a neutral colour in between extremes.
After being raised on the ocean, and leaving home at seventeen years old, turquoise is the balance and consistency that I have carried with me throughout the ups and downs and that life has taken me on – the different tones and shades, like crashing waves. Over the time span of eight year, fifteen apartments, twelve countries, and fifty cities, it has become my religion, my sanity, my reality and escape; the recurrent emptiness and intimacy of the images calming, evoking the notion of absence and solitude as possibility." (Talia Shipman)
Gallery Stratford’s new outdoor exhibition venue extending the gallery experience into the physical and natural environment. Positioned in the trees between Upper Queens Park, home of The Stratford Festival’s Festival Theatre, and Gallery Stratford, Art in the Trees provides opportunities for artists working in lens based or digital media to take their work outside the gallery space, interacting with new audiences and animating public space in a four season 24/7 outdoor environment.
follow this link for the feature about this project on akimbo
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TALIA SHIPMAN
shares her view of the artist's role in unsettling times and how it constitutes a new challenge. March 20, 2020 |
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Past exhibitions at Mónica Reyes Gallery
Talia Shipman | Meet Me in the Middle (2017)
Talia Shipman’s photographic series Meet Me In The Middle explores an imagined post-apocalyptic world where water and other basic needs are replaced by consumer objects, examining the human and natural world’s propensity to change and transform. Meet Me In The Middle was created in a fervent process of navigating and confronting the unforgiving conditions of the static desert landscape. Fascinated by the colour turquoise as a metaphor for water, fluidity, and change, Shipman struggles to find balance between the two uniquely fragile extreme ecosystems – the increasingly dehydrated earth and equally delicate capitalist world order. The series and the subject matter addressed is relevant concerning the ongoing global water crisis, current contentions raised at the Dakota pipeline protests, and the commodification of this precious resource. Underscoring the layering of references, she alludes to environmental concerns, social conventions, and her own personal quest for identity.
Installation view | Meet Me in the Middle
Installation view Public Art Collection
Talia Shipman | It’s Too Hot to Hold You, It’s Too Cold to Not (Swayed) | 2014
Public Art Installations
Water is Taught by Thirst (Submerge), 2015 - 5 video montages | 295 John St (at Adelaide St.)
I created a video suite to be permanently screened on the outstanding Speech Bubble screen/sculpture designed by Toronto-based artists Marman and Borins, commissioned by Pinnacle on Adelaide, with the guidance of Public Art Management. Submerge will be screened on rotation alongside videos by Marman and Borins, Gordon Douglas Ball, and Dan Browne
Water, is Taught by Thirst (Submerge), 2015 is a visceral experience of timeless interconnectivity between humans, nature, animals and technology - relaying the notion that one extreme cannot exist or be appreciated without the other; that we only truly know the value of something, once we are without it, and balance is everything.There is an inherent irony in the process and output itself: the overly saturated colours and filters are inspired by nature, yet nowhere near natural. The raw footage of nature is being recorded in its purest form by a human using modern technology, then filtered and manipulated, only to be shown on a video screen back in the outdoors. Everything is cyclical; everything is connected. The woven together video clips and title are inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem written in the late 1800ʼs. In an increasingly individualized society, this video (and poem) draw attention to the ying and yang of the everyday. Without a past, there is no present; without the present, there is no future.
Water, is taught by thirst.
Land – by the Oceans passed.
Transport – by throe –
Peace – by its battles told –
Love, by Memorial Mold –
Birds, by the Snow.
Water Wall, 2015 | Bremner Tower PATH, 18 York St, Toronto
1.5 years of designing and conceptualizing with KPMB Architects and GWL Development, the first part of the permanent wall is installed and visible in the PATH at Bremner Tower (18 York St). The building site was at one time under water so I wanted to create a “Blue Space” bringing flow and calm through the halls, as if walking the lakeshore boardwalk. The colour blue makes up the vastness of sky and water and conveys a sense of the infinite, the different tones and curved panels like waves
I created a video suite to be permanently screened on the outstanding Speech Bubble screen/sculpture designed by Toronto-based artists Marman and Borins, commissioned by Pinnacle on Adelaide, with the guidance of Public Art Management. Submerge will be screened on rotation alongside videos by Marman and Borins, Gordon Douglas Ball, and Dan Browne
Water, is Taught by Thirst (Submerge), 2015 is a visceral experience of timeless interconnectivity between humans, nature, animals and technology - relaying the notion that one extreme cannot exist or be appreciated without the other; that we only truly know the value of something, once we are without it, and balance is everything.There is an inherent irony in the process and output itself: the overly saturated colours and filters are inspired by nature, yet nowhere near natural. The raw footage of nature is being recorded in its purest form by a human using modern technology, then filtered and manipulated, only to be shown on a video screen back in the outdoors. Everything is cyclical; everything is connected. The woven together video clips and title are inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem written in the late 1800ʼs. In an increasingly individualized society, this video (and poem) draw attention to the ying and yang of the everyday. Without a past, there is no present; without the present, there is no future.
Water, is taught by thirst.
Land – by the Oceans passed.
Transport – by throe –
Peace – by its battles told –
Love, by Memorial Mold –
Birds, by the Snow.
Water Wall, 2015 | Bremner Tower PATH, 18 York St, Toronto
1.5 years of designing and conceptualizing with KPMB Architects and GWL Development, the first part of the permanent wall is installed and visible in the PATH at Bremner Tower (18 York St). The building site was at one time under water so I wanted to create a “Blue Space” bringing flow and calm through the halls, as if walking the lakeshore boardwalk. The colour blue makes up the vastness of sky and water and conveys a sense of the infinite, the different tones and curved panels like waves