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Ink Stained: Experiments Towards Decolonizing Print
Emily Davidson, MFA Thesis

www.emilydavidsonart.com/ @madlyvisioned

Nov 7 - 18, 2023

Gallery 1

Graduate exhibitor

Ink Stained brings together new works by Emily Davidson interrogating her relationship as a white queer woman settler—and printmaker—to colonization. The exhibition takes aim at settler narratives of the printing press as a symbol of egalitarian progress and democracy. Instead, print media is exposed as integral to historic and ongoing colonization of Indigenous lands across Turtle Island. Together these works propose experimental methods through which settlers can trouble the colonial archive, activate critical self-reflection, and redirect the medium of print to participate in decolonization.

Opening reception: Emily Davidson, Meichan Yuan, Samantha Holyk, Becca Devenish

Monday, Nov 6, 5:30pm Monday, Nov 6, 7:00pm

Join us for the opening reception of exhibitions by Emily Davidson, Meichan Yuan, Samantha Holyk, Becca Devenish.

Neon orange letterpress prints hang in the window of a brick building. Prints read "Letterpress is a tool of colonization.”
Image credit: Emily Davidson
2019 Graduation exhibition installation. Small drawings and found objects are on the wall next to a textile hanging.

The Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems is a public exhibition space within NSCAD University, presenting professional exhibitions by established artists alongside graduating student exhibitions.

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