Kate Craig

The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Kate Craig, a groundbreaking video and performance artist, producer, mentor and key figure in the Vancouver art community. As a founding member of the Western Front and director of their video-artist-in-residence programme, Craig had a profound effect on the artistic community in Canada.

The exhibition features Kate Craig’s video works Clay Cove (1979), Delicate Issue (1979), Ma (1986), and Mary Lou (1989) as well as a series of collages from the series Sud/Nord/South/North (1981) produced collaboratively with Craig’s husband Hank Bull. All of these works explore ideas of location, place and mapping from a personal, experiential perspective. Her work Delicate Issue painstakingly maps the artist’s body, while Ma incorporates remarkable images of India, Nepal and Vancouver’s lower mainland in a complex sound and image video. Daina Augaitis, Chief Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery has said of Craig that “her work becomes almost a compendium of video production, from the early time-based pieces like Delicate Issue to the more complicated edited works like Ma, to a structured, semiotic work like Mary Lou, that is all about formal properties of the screen and the electronic medium”.

Kate Craig died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2002 at her home in Storm Bay.