EBONY ROSE
  • WORK
    • Camber
    • Cetus
    • Ear to ocean
    • Dark Light
    • Tafoni Nutkana
    • Ordinary Light
    • Pinna (bridge)
    • Four Corners
    • Four Corners, AHVA 2016
    • Zephyr / Light Ricochets
    • Haiku
    • Drift
    • Glint
    • Mountain Water
    • Pitch Dark
    • PAINTING >
      • Ashore
      • In and out and through
    • Drawings for light
    • Water study 2014
    • Other >
      • Halo Cobalt teal 2013
      • Coral Bones Black Water 2020
      • Wash Up 2020
      • Pinna 2015
      • Ins and Outs
      • Seaweed study 2017
      • Gossamer 2014
      • Weavings 2014
      • Lift 2013
  • About
  • WORK
    • Camber
    • Cetus
    • Ear to ocean
    • Dark Light
    • Tafoni Nutkana
    • Ordinary Light
    • Pinna (bridge)
    • Four Corners
    • Four Corners, AHVA 2016
    • Zephyr / Light Ricochets
    • Haiku
    • Drift
    • Glint
    • Mountain Water
    • Pitch Dark
    • PAINTING >
      • Ashore
      • In and out and through
    • Drawings for light
    • Water study 2014
    • Other >
      • Halo Cobalt teal 2013
      • Coral Bones Black Water 2020
      • Wash Up 2020
      • Pinna 2015
      • Ins and Outs
      • Seaweed study 2017
      • Gossamer 2014
      • Weavings 2014
      • Lift 2013
  • About




Picture
Installing Dark Light, Yamakiwa Gallery, Niigata  Japan 2028
Contact: [email protected]


Biography

Working primarily across watercolour and installation, Ebony Rose’s practice asks what it means to be a sensate body in a world in constant flux. Bearing witness to the land—as both onlooker and agent—she explores these entangled relationships. Her work unfolds in porous, alchemical spaces where natural phenomena and the physical intersect. Each piece is imbued with transformation and encounters with the elemental—fire, water, air. Through this, her work invites a heightened attunement to our surroundings and a slowing of perception.
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For instance, in Cetus, materials such as charcoal collected from a forest fire on Quadra Island, ground and dusted in a circle on the floor, anchor the viewer in tangible presence. Yet, dotted with bleached coralline, charred ferns, and cedar sprays, these elements transcend mere physicality, inviting contemplation of other realms—a constellation of possibilities.
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Ebony received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of Victoria. Ebony has exhibited her work both in Canada and internationally and has been curated into a number of exhibitions. Venues include Unit 17, Vancouver, Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidigate, Will Aballe Projects, Vancouver, AHVA Gallery at the University of Vancouver, Yamakiwa Gallery, Niigata, Japan, Anna Leowowens Gallery, Halifax, ASPN Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, and Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY. She has been awarded artist residencies in Alberta, Colorado, Germany, British Columbia and Japan. In 2017 she was long-listed among six artists for the Contemporary Art Award. She is a recipient of Canada Council for the Arts Grants. Ebony lives and works on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the toq qaymɩxw (Klahoose), ɬəʔamɛn qaymɩxw (Tla'amin), ʔop qaymɩxw (Homalco) Nations.

For a curriculum vitae please be in touch.
Picture
Installing, Imagine Our Parks, City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho, 2016
Picture
Summer Studio, Cortes, 2021
© Ebony Rose​