A True Reflection brings together three artists who turn to the camera as a medium for self discovery and affirmation.
Emma Juliette Sherland has used her own negative experiences as a way to start conversations about her well being and mental health. Sherland has felt that art should have viewers reflect on how negative experiences can become positive if it were from making art in a studio or looking at art in a gallery. In her practice, Sherland has transformed her negative experiences into positive ones by assembling or dissecting her artwork to find the original meaning from her subconscious rather than settling for a simpler meaning at face value. For her, every situation is a learning experience and sharing her artwork with others has helped her develop a clearer understanding of how she has been feeling. Through her journey, Sherland has combined printmaking and photography by using aspects of repetition, size, and aesthetics into her artwork to represent those repeated emotions and/or experiences can have had varied compromises.
hal october is an internationally-exhibited lens-based artist and photographer living and working in Toronto, Ontario, as well as a recent graduate of the integrated media program at ocad university.
Marzieh Miri is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist. She was born and raised in Iran. Marzieh has an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University(formerly Ryerson). Her research and creative practice explore the notions of place, land and environment through photographic mediums. She is especially interested in practice-based and sensorial approaches that explore humans and their environment as a united existence. Winner of Ontario Art Council grants has exhibited her art projects in Iran, France, Austria and Canada. She has also worked as an architect, professor, writer and critic and has published in international journals and presented in conferences and courses in Canada, England and Iran.
