In my work I aim to explore the spaces that exist between worlds. I am interested in the threshold occurring between the wild and the cultivated, reality and fiction, and visual representation and abstraction. My images are rooted in landscape painting’s history and the dilemma of finding community in an increasingly individualistic world. I am investigating this idea of place not as idyllic sites, but rather locations of dislocation, duality, and tension. I try to portray uncertainty; terrains yet to come, the ones that once existed, and the turbulence inherent in transitions. I work with situations that stand just a little outside of the collective knowledge of how we navigate the unknown and attempt to link such notions to contemporary social, political and ecological dilemmas.
BIO
Damien Worth is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator living and working in rural Prince Edward Island/ Epekwitk . Worth graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2011, and interest in experimental approaches to art production are focused in the media of painting , new media, video, and installation. He has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in national and international venues and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Worth has his work held in various private and public collections including the Confederation Centre Art Gallery permanent collection(PE), University of New Brunswick Art Centre permanent collection,The Rooms provincial art bank (NL), The Prince Edward Island art bank (PE), and Global Affairs Art collection for embassies and consulate offices.
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2023 (re)Visions, Charlottetown Learning Centre via ThisTownIsSmall ARC, Charlottetown, PE
2022 Translations, Receiver Co. via TTIS ARC, Charlottetown, PE
(Dis)Location, UNB Art Centre, Fredricton, NB
2020 The Cusp, The Guild via TTIS ARC, Charlottetown
Forlorn Sojourn, Receiver via TTIS ARC , Charlottetown, PE
2019 A brief commotion, Receiver via TTIS ARC, Charlottetown, PE
Rural Alchemy, The Guild via TTIS ARC, Charlottetown, PE
2013 Astral Projection, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. Johns, NL
2011 Painted Space, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PE
Mediations in an Emergency, Anna Leonowens Gallery NSCADU, Halifax
2008 Your Neckst II, Corner Brook, NFLD.
2006 Social Tessellation, Gallery in the Guild , Charlottetown PE
2005 Your Neckst/ Stuck, Zetetic Elbowroom, Charlottetown PE
2004 Jeddith Unravelling, Gallery in the Guild, Charlottetown PE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Site/Scene, Hilda Woolnaugh Gallery, PE
2021 Grounded, Eptek Centre via TTIS, Summerside, PE
2019 In the Balance, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlotteown PE 2016 AfterImage, CCOA, Charlottetown PE
2015 Mirror Screen. Sanctuary Festival, Galloway, Scotland
If you could see me now, Art in the Open, Charlottetown PE
2014 We Build and are Built III, Lumiére art festival, Sydney Cape Breton NS
Arc of the Park, Art in the Open, Charlottetown PE
Videostore, Gallerie Tiers-espace / Third Space Gallery, St. John, NB 2013 We build and are Built, Art in the Open, Charlottetown PE
Videostore, Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Videostore, ODD Gallery, Klodike Istitute for the Arts, Dawson City, Yukon
Schoolboard, Pigeon Gallery- Bus Stop Theatre, Halfiax, NS
2012 The Last 18, Art in the Open, Charlottetown PE
Selected Videos International Multimedia Arts Festival, New Zero Art Space Yangon, Myanmar.
2011 Drawing Connections Art in the Open, Rochford Square, Charlottetown
StArt Painters of Great Promise, Studio 21, Halifax, NS.
Curated Works, Port Loggia NSCAD Halifax.
Come C(loser), Khyber Arts Center ICA, Halifax.
2010 Snapshot Painting, Anna Leonowens Gallery NSCAD Halifax.
Out of Purgatory (Pan Atlantic), Confederation Centre of the Arts,Charlottetown, PE
2009 Sited, Loggia Gallery at NSCAD, Halifax, NS.
2008 They Build, Centre for Culture, Corner Brook, NFLD.
2007 Out of Purgatory II, Peake Street Studios, Charlottetown, PE
2006 Out of Purgatory, Peake Street Studios, Charlottetown. PE.
Puzzles, Peake Street Studios, Charlottetown, PE
2005 The Memory Show, Peake Street Studios, Charlottetown. PE
Workshops/ Residencies/ Collectives
Awards/Achievements
2016,18,19,20, 21, 23: PEI Provincial professional art grant recipient
2012 Charlottetown Perspectives design competition, Charlottetown PE 2011 Culture Capital of Canada public art award, Charlottetown PE
2010 Robert Pope Foundation Painting Scholarship.NSCAD, Halifax, NS
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation art competition first place award,Halifax, NS
Collections
2021- Canadian Global Affairs Art Collection for Embassies and Consulate offices
2020- University of New Brunswick Art Centre permanent collection
2016-2020 PEI provincial art bank permanent collection
2011 Confederation Centre Art Gallery permanent collection, Charlottetown, PE 2010 Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation collection Halifax, NS
2008 The Rooms Gallery provincial art bank permanent collection, St. Johns NL