Bio
Paige Bromby is an emerging artist and facilitator based in Fergus, Ontario, on the traditional lands of the Petun, Haudenosaunee, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. In 2019 Bromby showcased an immersive painting installation at Capacity 3 Gallery (Guelph). Upon graduating from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art in 2020, Bromby began delivering arts programs and workshops within the region while continuing to exhibit her paintings in various galleries across Ontario. Her exhibition ‘Clay in the Soil’ at N/A Gallery (Guelph) in 2021 explored the drastic changes and complex history of Bromby’s family farm, which is often depicted in her work. In 2023, she attended the Artist Parent Project Residency with MOTHRA at Gibraltar Point Toronto Island. Working primarily in painting and drawing, Bromby explores her relationship to the land in a digital age.
Artist Statement
I am drawn to painting the landscape because of its ability to feel like an extension of home with the complexities of the unknown. My life has been consumed by screens, a filter through which I see the majority of my world, including the land. Working primarily in painting, I explore my relationship to the land in a digital age. Creating paintings that require the recording, translation and filtering of the landscape through my own eyes and the ‘eyes’ of technology. Working from my own photographs, I break down these images through digital manipulations and layered composition; Pursuing a translation with each individual brush stroke. Initially maintaining a strong connection to the screen, eventually the image is abandoned and I begin relying on reveries and instinct to find the landscape in a middle ground between artist and technology.
