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Echo Railton, MFA draws, gardens and teaches in Tkaronto, Canada.A founding member of the collective Analog Analogue, member also of the MOTHRA collective of artist-parents.
My earlier work includes large-scale drawings with charcoal pulled from bonfires, of rethinking relationships and responsibilities regarding invasive species, such as kudzu, dandelion and zebra mussels.
Graphic design work displayed in the forest calls on viewers to eat invasive plants. I am motivated to further our reconciliation with the land and to protect biodiversity.
I have created and tend a number of pollinator-friendly gardens at public parks and schools.
Community mural-making and collaborative installation are a part of my practice, too.
A member of the MOTHRA artist parents collective in Toronto …
MOTHRA artist residency, Gibraltar Point
…and founding member of the Art Team Analog Analogue. Gallery works take the form of playful, viewer-interactive temporary installations. These encourage the viewer to realize their power and learn to play again. “What am I supposed to do?” they ask. “Anything you want to” we tell them. And then they play.
Art Team Analog Analogue on the way to Miami for Basel – image is a link to the team’s website
Awards/grants
- Toronto Arts grant, 2024
- Garden Award, 2023
- Green Award, Florida State University, March 2012
- Florida State University’s 8th Annual CVATD Awards: Received their Drawing and Painting Award, March 2011
- Nominated for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (OTAA) Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA, Spring 2011
- Bronze place “China through your eyes” International Art competition through the ISU and Ohio University, April 24th 2007
- Mackie Cryderman Award, Fanshawe College, London ON $500 Grant for a collaborative Drawing/ Painting Project, Summer 2000
- “Taraxacum Officionale” has been published as cover art for a the Southeast Review and inside as a 4 page fold-out.
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