Lorraine Simms
Lorraine Simms’ practice is located in a form of contemporary interrogation and commentary upon nature. Animal forms have appeared in her paintings, drawings and sculptures for over twenty years. Her recent works explore our relationship to the natural world by highlighting the manner in which animals are represented within our society, over the long course of their depiction in still-life painting, as well as in terms of their posthumous collection and scientific understanding.
Her most recent body of work, Shadowland, was started and realized throughout and following her residency at the Museum of Natural History in New York, in the mammalogy department there. She employed the Museum’s collection of the bones and skins of endangered and extinct species to draw the projected shadows of these specimens. The resulting drawings, both accurately realized and manifestly abstracted at once, speak to the loss and empathy we experience, as she catalogues each individual both as such and as representative of their species.
Lorraine Simms a exposé son travail à travers le Canada et aux États-Unis au cours d'une carrière qui s'étend sur plus de 30 ans. Ses peintures et dessins ont été présentés lors d'expositions institutionnelles au Canada et aux États-Unis, notamment au Musée canadien de la nature (Ottawa, 2021-22), au Musée Redpath (Montréal, 2023), au Beaty Museum of Biodiversity (Vancouver, 2019) et à la Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton, 2018). Son travail a fait l'objet de nombreuses critiques, de poésie, d'un documentaire télévisé, et la revue Border Crossings a récemment publié un portfolio détaillé de ses œuvres. Simms a participé à de nombreuses résidences, dont celle au Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art à North Adams (2017), et à l'American Museum of Natural History à New York (2018, 2019), où elle a pu bénéficier d'un accès privilégié à leurs collections privées afin de commencer sa série Shadowland. En 2023, elle a également continué ses recherches dans les collections du Musée canadien de la nature et du Musée Redpath, tous deux au Canada. Son travail se trouve dans des collections corporatives de renom, telles que la Banque de Montréal, la Banque Nationale du Canada et Loto-Québec, ainsi que dans des collections muséales telles que le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec et le Musée canadien de la nature. Lorraine Simms est titulaire d'une maîtrise en beaux-arts de l'Université Concordia et est basée à Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal, le territoire autochtone non cédé de la Nation Kanien’kehá:ka.
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Lorraine Simms: Shadowland at the Redpath Museum
October 10, 2023McBride Contemporain is pleased to share the upcoming exhibition by Lorraine Simms at the Redpath Museum as a part of her Shadowland series. Drawings from...Read more -
New publication by Lorraine Simms: Eidolons
April 15, 2023Lorraine Simms publishes Eidolons, following up on her eponymous exhibition presented at OBORO in November and December 2022. This richly illustrated 60-page bilingual publication includes...Read more -
Lorraine Simms: A solo show at OBORO, Montreal
November 5, 2022McBride Contemporain is delighted to share Lorraine Simms’ exhibition Eidolons, which is currently taking place at OBORO in Montréal until December 10.Read more -
Border Crossings highlights Lorraine Simms' latest body of work in their Spring 2022 issue
June 19, 2022McBride Contemporary is pleased to announce that a selection of Lorraine Simms' latest works, drawn from a comprehensive body of graphite drawings currently on view at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, has been published as part of a Portfolio in the latest issue of Border Crossings.Read more -
SHADOWLAND, from Lorraine Simms, reviewed in ESPACE Art actuel
May 4, 2022McBride Contemporary is proud to announce that Lorraine Simms' solo exhibition Shadowland, presented at the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa), has been reviewed by Gabrielle...Read more -
Lorraine Simms: A solo exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa
February 1, 2022In a major solo exhibition presented at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Lorraine Simms presents a series of fifteen large-scale drawings. These works are the result of two research residencies at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The subject matter is the remains and bones of endangered or extinct animals.Read more