Yvonne Mullock was born in Chester, Cheshire, in the U.K in 1978 and currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was educated at Glasgow School of Art, B.A. (Hons) in drawing and painting.
Yvonne started her talk around the theme of composition that it could be a thought or an arrangement of ideas or the composition of ideas or structure of a project.
Yvonne was studying drawing and painting in Glasgow in 2001 and lived there for 15 years but is now based in Calgary, Alberta in Canada and has been there for ten years.
Yvonne works across a lot of mediums from textiles, video, printmaking and collage and loves to collaborate with other artists with expertise in their field.
Examples of this was a community quilt project, a pigeon race, climbing the highest tree and inspecting some moth species.
Yvonne works in costumes primarily for film and television even working on the revival of Fraggle Rock.
According to the Jarvis Hall Gallery website:
DARK HORSE is a multifaceted body of work that uses iconic symbols synonymous with cowboy culture – the stetson hat and horse as tropes to explore Calgary’s long and entwined history of ranching and the city’s historic annual Stampede event. Using print, video and sculpture DARK HORSE explores an innovative horse-centric printmaking method and invites viewers to delve into cowboy identity and Western mythologies that hover over the history, collective memory and folklore traditions in Calgary.
https://yvonnemullock.com/Dark-Horse
http://www.stride.ab.ca/dark-horse-yvonne-mullock/
https://norberghall.com/up-front-w-yvonne-mullock-viewing-room/
Yvonne talks about Smithbilt hats the original manufacturer of the Calgary White Hat, known for its symbol of hospitality. Made locally in the heart of Stampede culture and crafted with high quality felts for over 50 years.
https://smithbilthats.com/?v=707f3a40153b
A monoprint of an inked Stetson hat that has been pressed by the weight of the horse where the horse becomes the creator.
Yvonne talked about an exhibition entitled The Welcome Stranger which is in full detail in the link above.
https://www.esplanade.ca/esplanade-exhibitions-programs-and-shows/harmonia
This link takes you to Yvonnes latest exhibition entitled Harmonia.
“Harmonia is a multifaceted exhibition by Calgary based artist Yvonne Mullock. The artist’s various creative interests, including costuming, fashion, performance, sculpture, and textiles, interact harmoniously within the fifteen-hundred-square-foot installation. From afar, the viewer is teased and intrigued by an enlarged peephole in a massive floating wall, which offers a glimpse of a pillowy, hand-dyed, tandem garment, draped on two poised, headless mannequins. Through a large projection, Mullock introduces the garment’s unique utility in her video, which is cleverly repurposed through larger-than-life still shots plastered to the gallery’s walls. Harmonia literally and conceptually connects various visual manifestations that speak to connectedness, transitory moments, and the cycle of life.”
Taken form the link listed above.
Then Yvonne went into Q and A with the students.
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