Opening Reception
August 16, 6 - 9 pm

Digging a Hole with a Garden Hose, will be on view in The Bows Beltline Gallery at The Graycon Building.
‍
*Please note that The Graycon Building is not wheelchair accessible. A freight elevator on the second floor, accessed via stairs, can take guests to the fourth floor.‍

‍The exhibition is by appointment only
Book Here

‍‍~

Cracked flesh, an aching back, still, I must persist
‍

The exhibition, Digging a Hole with a Garden Hose, explores iterations of Shelby Charlesworth’s  invisible labours and ‘failures’ as modes of survival, while offering a window into common themes of queer resistance and persistence in critiquing the traps of capitalism. 

~

Shelby Charlesworth is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, currently located in Mohkinstsis (Calgary). Shelby began her career attending Alberta University of the Arts (formerly Alberta College of Art and Design), graduating in 2017 with a BFA in Painting. Shelby then received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut in 2021, where she later taught and was awarded as Instructor of Record for Sculpture. Following her MFA, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she worked as a studio assistant, sculptor and ceramicist before returning to Alberta in 2022 to be the Sculpture Technician at the University of Lethbridge. She is now a Sessional Instructor in sculpture at the University of Calgary and the Community Partnerships Coordinator at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre.

‍