Artist talk with Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux

Join exhibiting artists Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux in conversation with interdisciplinary artist Colleen Coco Collins. Within this kōrero, Bellamy and Fauteux will discuss bringing together significant bodies of work for the exhibition, and how different modes of collaboration have informed this project. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux collaborate with diverse contributors on conceptually-rooted and site-responsive projects. They have presented recent solo exhibitions at Hocken Gallery (Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand), MSVU Art Gallery (Kjipuktuk Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), and YYZ Artists Outlet (Tkaronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada). They were the 2024 Frances Hodgkins Fellows at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka the University of Otago (Ōtepoti, Aotearoa). They share their time living within the Sikniktuk district of Mi'kma'ki (Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada) and in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. Colleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Her practice oscillates temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, frequencies, the ouroboric, the orogenous, the peripatetic, love and the polyglottic. She lives littorally in rural Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Images: (1) Amanda Fauteux and Miranda Bellamy. Photo by Miranda Bellamy. (2) Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux with Colleen Coco Collins, Unboxing Vid (film still), 2025. Detail. Courtesy of the artists.