Vanessa Cornell

Artist Statement

"For the past 5 years my practice has involved an exploration of ways to incorporate digital and analogue practices together, while working with both painting and photography. This exploration has taken form in a variety of manifestations including; collage, image transfer, screen-printing as well as physical paint on mounted photographs, printed canvases and other digital outputs.

The culmination of my efforts and “mixed media” approach create honest, unapologetic and often satirical narratives of women, primarily in their domestic spaces. While also continuing my on-going investigation of the commonly clichéd female identity, including: beauty, aging, sexuality, and domesticity." Vanessa Cornell 2021

Biography

Currently residing in Southwestern Ontario, Vanessa Cornell (b. 1986) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University (2009), an Master of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor (2014) and most recently a Post-Baccalaureate from NSCAD University (2018). She has participated in exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States, including the 2020 Montréal Papier Contemporary Art Fair with Studio 21 Gallery as well as Art Toronto. She has also been featured in art publications including Brenda Magazine (United Kingdom), Barbed Magazine (USA) and C-Print Journal (Sweden).