ARTIST STATEMENT
I consider myself both a collage artist and a storyteller. Sometimes my work is a short story, sometimes it’s a novel. But it’s always surreal, full of observations about the absurdity of daily life or conversations with the cities I’ve lived in, visited and loved.
My practice grew from my love of making photo collages in my former newspaper career as a graphic artist – only now I do this by hand, using my own photos combined with historical images and paper in a dreamlike form of narrative. The ability to layer these images with colours and textures, historical maps, newsprint and found items inspires me to create multi-layered landscapes of both fiction and history. I love to work with the bizarre, the comical, the outlandish – while working, I always keep the words of an artist who inspires me, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in the back of my mind: “You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.”
BIOGRAPHY
Ginger Sedlarova is a collage artist, painter and photographer who worked as a graphic artist for decades in both daily media in Vancouver and on newspapers and magazines in Central Europe. Prague, Czech Republic is her second home. Her former career inspired her love of working with photos and composition, but now that she doesn’t have an editor looking over her shoulder while she works, she loves to play and indulge in the unexpected. A Beatlemaniac, Sedlarova lives in Burnaby, B.C. with her husband and two rescue cats. Her work has appeared in galleries across Canada and in Europe.
EDUCATION
2016-20 Advanced study in painting certificate
Emily Carr University
of Art & Design,
Vancouver, BC
2015 Self-directed residency
Berlin, Germany
2016-20 Advanced study in painting certificate
Emily Carr University
of Art & Design,
Vancouver, BC
2015 Self-directed residency
Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Salon 15
Propeller Art Gallery
Toronto, Ont. (March 10 – April 3; online only)
2021 Parallel Dimensions
Collage Artists of America
Studio City, CA (February 2021; online only)
2021 Mail Art: unlimited Dada
Propeller Art Gallery
Toronto, Ont. (January 20 – April 20; online only)
2019 Luminescence IV
Deer Lake Gallery
Burnaby, BC
2018 Bombay Sapphire Artisans
Series (finalist)
Gallery Jones
Vancouver, BC
2018 Local Abstractions
South Surrey Arts Centre
White Rock, BC
2017 Fall for Arts
Maury Young Arts Centre
Whistler, BC
2017 Anonymous Art Show
CityScape Community Art Space
North Vancouver, BC
2021 Salon 15
Propeller Art Gallery
Toronto, Ont. (March 10 – April 3; online only)
2021 Parallel Dimensions
Collage Artists of America
Studio City, CA (February 2021; online only)
2021 Mail Art: unlimited Dada
Propeller Art Gallery
Toronto, Ont. (January 20 – April 20; online only)
2019 Luminescence IV
Deer Lake Gallery
Burnaby, BC
2018 Bombay Sapphire Artisans
Series (finalist)
Gallery Jones
Vancouver, BC
2018 Local Abstractions
South Surrey Arts Centre
White Rock, BC
2017 Fall for Arts
Maury Young Arts Centre
Whistler, BC
2017 Anonymous Art Show
CityScape Community Art Space
North Vancouver, BC
SOLO, TWO- & THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Vancity window installation
Robson and Denman
Vancouver, BC (February – April 2021)
2021 The Gallery at The Cultch
Vancouver, BC (February 2021; online only)
(with Marliese Eilers and Valerie Arntzen)
2021 Pandemic postcards series
Diafano exhibition (forthcoming summer 2021; online only)
Barcelona, Spain
2021 Vancity window installation
Robson and Denman
Vancouver, BC (February – April 2021)
2021 The Gallery at The Cultch
Vancouver, BC (February 2021; online only)
(with Marliese Eilers and Valerie Arntzen)
2021 Pandemic postcards series
Diafano exhibition (forthcoming summer 2021; online only)
Barcelona, Spain
PUBLICATIONS
2021 La Source, "Ginger Sedlarova's Pop Art Collages," February 23, 2021
http://thelasource.com/fr/2021/02/22/les-collages-pop-art-de-ginger-sedlarova/
(Original in French)
2021 La Source, "Ginger Sedlarova's Pop Art Collages," February 23, 2021
http://thelasource.com/fr/2021/02/22/les-collages-pop-art-de-ginger-sedlarova/
(Original in French)