Home Economics (More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid)
Rachel Crummey
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Gallery 2
William and Isabel Pope Painter-in-Residence
What happens when an undomesticated fungus tangles with the human impulse to adorn?
Rachel Crummey is a visual artist, writer, and educator of settler descent based in Tkaronto. Her grandmother, Dorothy MacDonald, grew up in Little Harbour, Nova Scotia, the eldest daughter of a preacher. She earned a degree in Home Economics from Dalhousie University in 1932, married, and had five children. 82 years later, the artist cultivates a series of paintings woven from the mycelial network of a medicinal mushroom, commonly known as Reishi or Ling Zhi.
Economics and ecology share the prefix ‘eco,’ which is derived from the Greek ‘oikos,’ meaning ‘home.’ Soil is the foundation for forest ecologies, where fungal mycelium tends to the flow of underground resources between plants and trees; analogous to the often invisible daily labour of the traditionally feminine domestic sphere.
Rachel Crummey is NSCAD's William and Isabel Pope Painter-in-Residence, 2024.
Opening receptions: Megan Johnson; Pope Painter-in-Residence Rachel Crummey; Gabe Moore
Please join us at opening receptions for exhibitions by undergraduates Megan Johnson, Gabe Moore and William and Isabelle Pope Painter-in-Residence
