Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed: Tacky Forms

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Reception: September 16, 1:00 pm

Vancouver artists Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed’s public artwork Big Rock Candy Mountain is a co-produced candy factory with students and staff at Queen Alexandra Elementary School in East Vancouver. In June 2017, the artists travelled to Regina to explore gum, as both a commodity and a sculptural medium, with middle school-aged students at Prairie Sky School. The results of this workshop are on exhibit at Dunlop’s Sherwood Gallery.

Vancouver-based artists, Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling have worked together throughout the past 10 years. Collaboration, negotiation and discovery is fundamental in their partnerships with youth community groups with a focus on productive capacity and explorative processes. Projects often take form as videos, public installations, social situations, events, photographs, printed matter and multiples. In a recent series of projects with children, the artists have been exploring the ‘contact high’ intrinsic to collaborative work, especially in proximity to young people.

Hannah Jickling & Helen Reed, Tacky Forms (Detail), 2017. Photo by Eric Hill.