Goblets
Plate with Arctic Riverbeauty
Flower of Life Mug & Sweets Bowl
Something Fierce
Foodscapes: From Seed to Mouth, Thesis Exhibition, Installation view
This thesis presents gardening, picking food and eating as enjoyable steps towards the reclamation of the food system. Participants select and harvest food from the tile based vertical garden + then prepare the items together at the preparation station, talking about the food before us and food in general. Lastly, the participant will choose a […]
Ceramica Botanica, Plum
CerAMICA BOTANICA: A CONSTANT AND MISGUIDED OPTIMISM Exhibition, 2020 Flowers and plants have long been codified and are powerful communicative objects. Fairbank’s past work considers flora, wild or domestic, as a living witness to humanity. Now she asks the viewer to witness the plants, invasive, local and exotic that are attempting to exist, cleaning our […]
Innocuous Tropicals,
innocuous Tropicals Exhibition, 2018 The source material for these compositions has been continuously accumulated through Florida living. In Florida plants persist. These are specific species, from particular places. They are researched passionately and rigorously whether native flora, innocuous, invasive imports demanding space, plants that make you ill or plants that offer remedy. Rather than translating […]
Orange Citrus 1246 P St., FRUKTPLOCAR, Detail
FRUKTPLOCAR is inspired by https://fallingfruit.org/ , one of many crowd sourced fruit maps in the world, Bridget Fairbank chose to spend the winter months in Canada mining the internet, while eating and pondering imported fruit. Stalking images of specific plants, Fairbank virtually walked the city, in every season, imagined the smells, the sounds and the people around […]
This Way or That Way, Fireweed Detail, Between Things: Alberta Ceramics
As a response to the climate crisis, Fairbank has created two opposing archways representing two different ways forward. Industry Arch represents monoculture and industrial practices, Floral Arch includes native plant species that are threatened by industry and industrial farming. The work asks many difficult questions including can these two directions exist simultaneously? Must we choose […]
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