St Marie φ Walker
St Marie φ Walker are collaborative artist-researchers. Their collective work is founded on debate and dialogue within a multidisciplinary practice. They often rethink, reconstruct or re-reflect on built environments and authoritative influences. Together they question the terms and conditions of human understanding, evaluating and assessing how belief systems and value structures manifest. St Marie φ Walker use art as a conduit to analyze cognitive biases that are embedded in our physical and socially constructed world. Applying both the absurd and poetics, they examine how these constructed systems shape one’s assumed reality.
They have displayed a diversity of work in both galleries and outdoor festivals including: Malaspina Printmakers Vancouver, Kunsttempel Germany, SNAP in Edmonton, Hamilton Supercrawl, CAFKA Kitchener, LUMEN Waterloo, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Thames Art Gallery, Markham Museum, Latcham Art Centre, Art Mûr, Art Souterrain Montreal and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto.
St Marie φ Walker both hold an MFA and were individually honoured with a Governor General's Academic Gold Medal from the University of Waterloo. In 2018, Manchester Metropolitan University interviewed them for an international research project looking at various artists working in New Genre Public Art.