This chapter is the text written by Mckenzie Holbrook for Ex-Voto / Lung. It is a minute long. 

After graduating from York University in Toronto in 1977, Shelagh Keeley spent the next two decades between New York and Paris, creating the large-scale drawing and installation works for which she is acclaimed. Currently working out of Toronto, Keeley describes her practice as a visceral and cerebral activity.  

Keeley’s process is intuitive, often beginning the work with no set end in mind but rather exploring how her improvisational drawing takes shape. This encaustic drawing of a pair of lungs brings together much of Keeley’s philosophy of creation. She proposes that drawing offers an index of the artist’s body and expression, evidenced here by evocative linework which carries traces of her hand.  

Please move to the next stop, on the other side of this floating wall. Turn right and move for 2 metres, turn left for another 2 metres and then another left for 2 metres. Turn to the left at the felt circle stop.