Barrie-based artist Jill Price anchors From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow in her concept of UN/making, drawing on histories of maintenance art and walking as creative practice. Together with community members, Price scours regional shorelines, collecting, cleaning, sorting, recycling, donating, and reworking debris.
These actions result in meticulous displays and wry assemblages that acknowledge the agency and potential of what has been forgotten or discarded. Inside the gallery, the exhibition builds on her ongoing project called Wht-trSH to visualize the slow violence of plastics and other materials that colonize human bodies and more-than-human bodies of land and water. Still, the truest site of Price’s work is outside, where acts of walking, witnessing, and care unfold, and where she models a shared responsibility toward the environments we all inhabit.
