Noelle Hamlyn
Holding credentials in craft, fine art, and costuming, Noelle Hamlyn uses craft practices to mediate embodied experience and memory. She blends the technical and conceptual, recognizing hands respond to their tacit subjective experience. Intrigued by textures, ideas, the world, and being in it, she believes objects have power to absorb time, conjure experience, and hold story. Her work has been recognized as a Salt Spring National Art Prize 2017 finalist, best in show at Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (2014, 2019), and supported by residencies at the Banff Centre, Harbourfront Centre, Burren College of Art, Salt Spring Arts Council, and Barefoot College, Tanzania, where she rebuilt beekeeping suits as social enterprise.