Acknowledgement of Country

I would like to acknowledge the Cammeraygal and Duwamish peoples, traditional owners of the lands where I live and work, paying my respects to the Elders past, present and emerging.

Artist Statement

Anchored in water, Genevieve’s practice explores navigation, material memory, and the tactile research of landscape. Much of her work begins physically at the edge of water; walking tide lines, traveling on ferries and spending time in transitional coastal environments. These experiences place her into “a state of grace,” which becomes the emotional and conceptual starting point for the work.

Genevieve works from sensation, memory and feeling. Her process is intuitive and embodied, responding to surfaces, movement, weather and material interaction over literal representation. Specifically Genevieve recently explored a series called Sea Cranes and Sky Ladders, drawing from an area in Seattle that was historically underwater before industrial development transformed the site. The body of work expresses a space in transition with ocean, shipping transfers and sentinels spied in a rainstorm. The paintings made on worn, washed textiles, build with layers of paint, text and compositions emerging from nautical beacons.

MATERIALS

Genevieve works extensively with recycled fabrics, found objects, handmade dyes and traditional oil pigments. Her background working as a field archaeologist in her twenties strongly informs her attraction to surfaces, traces, fragments and layered histories within materials. The process itself is highly physical and often takes place outdoors through sketching and direct observation. Discarded textiles are found on walking adventures. She later washes the fabric, then layers it with stitching and pigment, creating surfaces that feel worn, fluid, and environmentally shaped.