LEAH Garnett

“I grew up on my father’s construction sites and this foundational experience shaped my interest in how we perceive, shape, and represent space. Specifically, I have looked at the relationships amongst architecture, landscape, and cosmology, and much of my past work represented spaces beyond physical comprehension, such as magnetic fields, outer space, and the ocean. Recently, my work has returned to my roots in construction. I am fascinated by the form and function of job sites. As provisional zones where architectural space is portioned from a larger landscape, construction sites exist as hybrids of landscape and architecture: they mimic both but are neither. They evolve as transitional architectures of scaffolding, planking, framing, etc., which in turn become a landscape through which to navigate the experience of space taking shape. I am currently working on drawings, sculptures, and installations that reference the materials and visual language of construction.” - Leah Garnett

Originally from the coast of Maine, Leah Garnett is a Canadian American who lives and works in Sackville, New Brunswick. Her practice involves drawing, sculpture, and installation. She has exhibited in Canada, the US, and Germany,and attended residencies at the Sirius Art Centre, the Fire Station Artists' Studios, the MacDowell Colony, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and Struts Gallery. She received her BA Honors from Brown University; BFA in Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; and MFA from the University of Guelph.

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