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From There To Here: Walking for Tomorrow

Jill Price

The House that Jack Built, 2025, Cyanotypes on reclaimed blueprint paper and behind reclaimed plexiglass, 26 x 32

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.

Photo courtesy of the artist.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Dr. Jill Price is an award-winning interdisciplinary creative who contributes to a growing discourse on art’s potential to enact ecological and ethical transformation. Grateful to be living on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe peoples in Barrie, Ontario, Price holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design from OCAD University and completed a research-creation PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Her scholarly publications include essays and chapters in journals and edited volumes, addressing topics like textile activism, museum practices, and the role of art in environmental justice.
Price’s work as an artist and scholarly research has been supported by grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), City of Barrie, Ontario Arts Council, Michael Smith Foreign Study Bursary, and Queen’s University, among others.
As an educator, Price is a professionally trained Visual Arts Specialist with the Ontario Teachers Federation and has taught at the post-secondary level since 2014. She has also served on various academic committees, including the Curriculum Committee and the Research-Creation Committee at Queen’s University .
In her curatorial practice, Price has worked within the private and public sector and currently serves as the Assistant Curator and Collections Manager at Royal Victoria Health Centre in Barrie, Ontario.

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.

Photo courtesy of the artist.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Dr. Jill Price is an award-winning interdisciplinary creative who contributes to a growing discourse on art’s potential to enact ecological and ethical transformation. Grateful to be living on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe peoples in Barrie, Ontario, Price holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design from OCAD University and completed a research-creation PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Her scholarly publications include essays and chapters in journals and edited volumes, addressing topics like textile activism, museum practices, and the role of art in environmental justice.
Price’s work as an artist and scholarly research has been supported by grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), City of Barrie, Ontario Arts Council, Michael Smith Foreign Study Bursary, and Queen’s University, among others.
As an educator, Price is a professionally trained Visual Arts Specialist with the Ontario Teachers Federation and has taught at the post-secondary level since 2014. She has also served on various academic committees, including the Curriculum Committee and the Research-Creation Committee at Queen’s University .
In her curatorial practice, Price has worked within the private and public sector and currently serves as the Assistant Curator and Collections Manager at Royal Victoria Health Centre in Barrie, Ontario.