Vernon artist Katie Brennan is about to have her work immortalized with Lake Country’s newest public art project –– a mural on Davidson Road.
Brennan will work with Lake Country residents to create an artistic representation of what it is like to live in Lake Country.
“The Davidson Road wall project will endeavour to create a map of Lake Country that accounts for more of what Lake Country looks like from multiple points of view, past and present and future, what it feels like to live in Lake Country, what the colours of Lake Country are, communal memory of events of personal or communal importance that have occurred here, as well as personal memories and stories of this place,” said Brennan.
Participants met about the project at the Lake Country Art Gallery Saturday and will continue to meet once a week throughout June to help with collaborative planning.
Brennan and her team will then collaborate to paint the final mural in the first two weeks of July.
Born and raised in Vernon, Brennan completed her masters in fine art at the University of Guelph in Ontario in 2009. In 2005, she completed her bachelor of fine art at Vancouver’s Emily Carr University.
She has exhibited her work across Canada, including Halifax, Toronto, Guelph, Vancouver, Vernon and Wells.
Her writing has appeared in Border Crossings Magazine, and this past year she was a sessional lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus.
While planning is underway for the Lake Country mural, Brennan will also be busy this month taking over the administrative duties at Vernon’s Gallery Vertigo while creative director and administrator Judith Jurica takes a break.
Brennan will be at the gallery every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“A lively schedule of concerts, readings and workshops will continue thanks to the efforts of the Gallery Vertigo Action Reaction Team (ART) and thanks to the hardworking studio artists who are always at the centre of gallery operations,” said Jurica.
For more information, call Vertigo at 250-503-2297 or check out the gallery’s website at www.galleryvertigo.com.
