Gerri York Seascape 2_vi

Gerri York was born in London, England and completed a B.Ed. Degree (Hons) at St. Gabriel's College, (Goldsmith's) London and holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University, Vancouver. Her visual arts practice encompasses sculpture, printmaking, photography and drawing. Her work has been exhibited in a wide variety of exhibitions and juried shows, both in Canada and Internationally. An artists' residency was completed at Grafisch Atelier Utrecht (CBKU) in 2010.York has worked as an educator at the Vancouver Art Gallery and volunteered on the education committees of both the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Contemporary Art Gallery and is a past Board member of Malaspina Printmakers.' Exhibitions recently have included representation in the Capture Photography Festival during 2019 – 2016. Her artistic focus has specialized in photographic and print media that currently merges photography with sculpture, a praxis that concentrates on material employment. I am fortunate to have a practice in a collective studio setting located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Watuth Nations. The studio is affiliated with Malaspina Printmakers’ where I was awarded a place in their Printermedia Residency programme. York's studio research is a continuation of the sculptural, material and spectral aspects of the photogram work