Lifelines – Kelly Zantingh (Artist Talk)

Kelly Zantingh (she/her) graduated with a B.A.H in Studio Art from the University of Guelph, ON in April 2016. She has exhibited in Tkaronto (Gardiner Museum, Xpace Cultural Centre, Trinity Square Video), Montreal (Gallery Parfois), Dawson City (Klondike Institute of Art and Culture/KIAC) and has participated in artist residencies in Portugal, Nova Scotia, the Yukon, and Victoria. She had her first solo exhibition at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective in 2023, and lives on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people (Victoria). Zantingh’s work explores the passage of time and its inevitable association with loss. She examines the fragile and complex structures of natural ecosystems, as well as how they are instrumentalized by humans. Using analog photographic processes, she documents and investigates the myriad ways that we are entangled with our surroundings. Her work is situated on the edge between a fascination with the natural world, and the acknowledgement of our current role on the changing earth within the anthropocene