Doug Guildford
Artist Statement
I am grateful to Paperhouse Studio for this residence.
Flora introduced me to a range of sculptural possibilities, allowing me to combine my beach-combed artifacts and dried eel-grass with the flax pulp that she prepared. I feel that I have a new process and material to add to my toolbox and plan to continue with the flax pulp working towards a future collection of found, altered and fabricated objects.
My practice is rooted in drawing, encompasses printmaking, collection, and the manipulation and fabrication of objects. It allows for obsessive sculptural crochet projects and It acts as a short-hand for my take on the universe; lab notes; a compulsive kind of journal entry, and perhaps, a distillation of accumulated knowledge. It wanders suggestively between male and female. I believe in the essential value, and the ultimate futility of work.
Doug Guildford, Salvaged Evidence (from an Expiring Off-Shore Fishery), installation shots, eel-grass, found objects and flax, variable sizes, limited series of 20 unique pieces
Bio
Doug Guildford is a largely self-taught Canadian visual artist. He divides his time between his studios in downtown Toronto and on a coastal stretch of rural Nova Scotia, where he shares an old farmhouse with his partner, the playwright and novelist, Don Hannah.
Guildford’s practice is rooted in drawing, encompasses printmaking, collection, and the manipulation and fabrication of objects. It allows for obsessive sculptural crochet projects and It acts as a short-hand for his take on the universe; lab notes; a compulsive kind of journal entry, and perhaps, a distillation of accumulated knowledge. It wanders suggestively between male and female. Guildford believes in the essential value, and the ultimate futility of work.
