ABOUT US
EARTH ART STUDIO is an arts movement conceived by artists, Sylvia Grace Borda and J.Keith Donnelly, to examine the role of land and art together in creating a positive series of actions to change views and increase climate and environmental awareness. The artists are passionate about the use of existing media technologies to broaden public engagement in exploring. conserving and preserving Nature.
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Sylvia Grace Borda is the founder of Climate Arts for Resilient Environments (C.A.R.E), Women4Climate Fellow, and an advocate about the role of the arts can play in supporting both the built and natural environment.
She is an award winning pioneering media artist recognized in Canada and abroad for her exploration of photography, including drone video, Google Street View, 3-D film installation, net art, architecture, and eco-art works often produced in the context of community media arts engagement and sustained social benefit. She is the winner of the Lumen Prize (2016) for Net Art For her efforts in adding tableaux vivant into Google Street View. She was a Berlin Falling Walls Short-listed Awardee and Lumen Futures (2023) finalist recognized for her work in developing inclusive community engagement practices to enable Indigenous representation and knowledge online. For her endeavours to diversify online media representation in the arts she was named as one of 5 winners in the Media Arts category by Mozilla as part of its Rise25 awards -see https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rise-25-winners/ She is the subject of a recent publication of her media work (see ‘Shifting perspectives,’ 2020 – downloadable e-copy at https://www.surrey.ca/arts-culture/surrey-art-gallery/gallery-publications/exhibition-catalogues/shifting-perspectives). Sylvia lives and works on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders where she lives and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Indigenous peoples across the globe. |
J.Keith Donnelly is a Scottish interdisciplinary visual artist working across a range of media. Keith is particularly well known for his sculptural accomplishment, observational,+ architectural drawings, and is also a trained botanical artist. He completed his certificate of Botanical Arts from the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh in 2016.
Over the last 5 years Keith has been working on public art research and project work in Canada, Latvia, and Finland. He has been shortlisted for key visual art commissions over this year for UNESCO World Heritage site at Kinnell House (Antoine Wall), Vasiant Developers Edinburgh, and Dundee City walkways program in Scotland. He has been engaged in the climate arts in recent through several projects including the production of Snow Cameras at Mustarinda Arts Centre, Finland (2016), Apple mural sketches for Serde Arts Centre, Aizpute, Latvia (2016-17), Flora plates, Pollock House, Glasgow, to name a few. He is a Saltire Award winner for Architectural ceramics, one of the highest awards assigned to an artist working in the built environment. |
