Connie Michele Morey

Connie Michele Morey's studio practice explores the experience of home as ecological interdependence. Through performance with textiles and sculpture, documented through photography and video, her work questions the effects of colonial industry and labour practices on inter-species displacement. Connie's studio practice is influenced by childhood experiences living rurally off the land, while being surrounded by family traditions of masonry, construction and textiles. Her family history mingles settler and Indigenous identities (Scottish, Scandinavian and Anishinaabe), and her studies in sculpture, textiles and philosophy (with an emphasis on ecology and decolonial studies) have impacted her interest in the politics of displacement. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the University of Lethbridge, an M.Ed. in Art Education and a Studio-Based PhD from the University of Victoria. She currently lives as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, where she also teaches Sculpture and Art Theory at Camosun College.