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UW<span style="color: black;"> Fine Arts MFA Thesis One: Jordan MacDonald | Cree Tylee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: black;">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Jordan MacDonald</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><i>The Okanagan</i> combines sculptural objects and drawing that reflect the emotional impact of separation, distance, and the desire for
connection. Using the Early Sunrise peach as both metaphor and material, the works examine the complexities of longing and absence through a physical presence that is at once tactile and fragile. The unruly nature of the peach—its soft skin, messy juices,
and inevitable decay—mirrors the fleeting and imperfect nature of intimacy. Felted peaches, porcelain pits, and charcoal stains come together to form a landscape of emotional weight, capturing the tension between wanting closeness and enduring temporal distance.
The pieces convey a quiet disintegration of intimacy, the slow fading of connection, and the rawness of yearning. Through the scale and materiality of the work, viewers are invited to navigate the space like one navigates a life—filled with moments of presence
and absence, connection and disconnection. With its visceral materials and emotional charge, the exhibition invites the viewer to reflect on their own experiences of distance and closeness. It is an invitation to engage with the embodied nature of longing
and the profound impact of separation.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Jordan MacDonald (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist from the unceded territories of the Syilx peoples (Okanagan Valley, British Columbia).
She received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of British Columbia in 2023 and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Waterloo, where she is a recipient of the prestigious Shantz International Research Scholarship. MacDonald recently had
a solo show at the Kelowna Art Gallery, BC, and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in regional and national venues. Primarily working in sculpture, her practice investigates absence, longing, and the complex relationships between place and
memory. </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://www.jordanmlmacdonald.com/" id="OWA8dc37c54-b838-1ae5-64de-3740ec577bc0" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Artists
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Cree Tylee</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><i>In any way</i> <i>I can</i> explores the home as a site of memory, investigating loss and identity
through material and spatial remembering. Drawing from a personal family archive, the work considers absence and presence, constructing a material dialogue between ‘then’ and ‘now’. Using both photographic and sculptural techniques, the work employs materials
which are mapped into memory—such as the tiles that were once behind the wood stove or the raspberry bushes in the backyard—the installation engages with emotional geographies, exploring memory through image and form. Additionally, materials from the current
home interact with archived objects, creating connections across time. The work traces the transformation of past physical homes into inner landscapes, evoking layered narratives of place, loss, and belonging. It observes the histories of objects which were
once attached to these places, the people we see in them, and the relational aspects and discreet narratives that emerge through their presence.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Cree Tylee is an interdisciplinary artist exploring themes of presence and absence investigated through the family archive. Considering
memory, emotional geographies, and material connections to place, her work engages with domestic and natural elements, considering how spaces and objects hold traces of lived experience. Tylee studied Analogue Photographic Arts and Ceramics at Haliburton School
of Art + Design and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in the History of Art and Visual Culture from Brock University.
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
East Campus Hall, Room 1239<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 33575<br>
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Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 46741<br>
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Wednesday to Saturday 12-5 pm<br>
Or by appointment</span></p>
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Ground floor entry<br>
Automated doors available at west entrance to Fine Arts (ECH)<br>
Wide pathways<br>
Accessible washrooms on ground level</span></p>
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263 Phillip Street, Waterloo<br>
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located adjacent to Engineering 6 (E6)<br>
Campus </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/map/" id="OWA325a57f7-50b3-36f7-a817-5ae46053d9a7" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://akimbo.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7dce056c3a021a085b762c0da&id=eb40db523a&e=f49260924a" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">map</a></u></span></p>
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University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
200 University Avenue West<br>
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b>Image Credits</b> (top):
<b>Jordan MacDonald</b>, <i>Fractured Traces</i> (3 of 6), 2025, porcelain with natural avocado stain. Image courtesy of the artist. (bottom)
<b>Cree Tylee</b>, <i>The trailer on Mary Lane</i>, 2024, raspberry, time, </span>
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); background-color: white;">Hahnemühle</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"> paper. Image courtesy of the artist.
<b>Image description:</b> (top) A large off-white porcelain peach pit rests atop an oxidized stain on a flat surface. (bottom) A blurred, bright pink image of a toddler and young women standing in the yard with a trailer wall behind them.</span></p>
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