For the season finale of Remote Art Talks we had a conversation with Cat Lamora, a Korean-Canadian paper artist based in Toronto who uses this fragile and temporary medium to create work at the crossroads of diaspora consciousness, memory, culture, and nostalgia.

We'll talk about the way Korean culture influences Cat's work, why they chose to use paper as a medium to create and we'll take a closer look at Cat's latest installation, We Bathe Here, which recreates the intimacy of Korean bath houses, a space in which people see each other's nakedness and vulnerabilities as something natural and ordinary and that connects the artist to childhood memories in Korea.

You can follow Cat on instagram: @catlamora

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Remote Art Talks, Season 1: Connecting Artists As We Experience Life In Isolation is produced by Artifier in partnership with @partial.gallery.

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Amada Estabillo's work combines abstract elements and representations of human figures that often recreate memories of spaces and places.

In this episode Amada talks to Tammy from @partial.gallery about her recent work, the way being a mother has influenced her practice and give us a tour in her studio as they discuss how her role as an educator has changed during this time of isolation.

#RemoteArtTalks S1E12: Amada Estabillo

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You can follow Amada on instagram: @a._r.e

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For artist followers of Remote Art Talks, Partial Gallery is offering a discount on Pro artist plans. Partial is a curated online directory of noteworthy independent artists. Go to partial.gallery, create a free profile, and use the code REMOTE to get a 10% discount on your Pro plan.

We believe in the power of connection, even if we're at home in isolation.

You can follow the project on Instagram with the hashtag: #RemoteArtTalks

Montreal artist Véronique Buist creates delicate designs and embroidery on paper made out of cotton threads and reclaimed fabrics that she also produces. In this episode we learn about the way her work overlaps with nature, fashion, and will take a sneak peek into some of the work she is currently working on from her home studio. *Ptsss.. these would make great gifts to be sent out via mail! ;) __

You can follow Véronique on instagram: @verobuist

Remote Art Talks is a special web series produced by Toronto-based art blog and directory @artifiernet in partnership with @partial.gallery.

For artist followers of Remote Art Talks, Partial Gallery is offering a discount on Pro artist plans. Partial is a curated online directory of noteworthy independent artists. Go to partial.gallery, create a free profile, and use the code REMOTE to get a 10% discount on your Pro plan.

We believe in the power of connection, even if we're at home in isolation.

You can follow the project on Instagram with the hashtag: #RemoteArtTalks

In what seems to be a conversation between old friends, Carla from Artifier meets photographic artist Danijela Gorley for the first time following months of Instagram DMs.

Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Gorley discusses her 20-year career as a photographer and the evolution of her work, shifting from a focus on self-identity and exploration of the self in her early career to focusing on the female and asking larger questions about beauty, the female experience and channeling intuition. She shares how she manifested recent personal challenges into a collaborative project with local florists exploring various aspects of transformation.

Danijela Gorley’s photographs create magical spaces that deal with issues of self and identity while analyzing the role of women in our society. Now based in Toronto, Gorley was a founding member of Montreal artist collective YPF, which exhibited locally and internationally. Her upcoming exhibition Flowers still bloom in wartime at The Lyceum Gallery is postponed until further notice.

You can follow Danijela Gorley on instagram: @danijelagorley

Find Danijela online: http://danijelagorley.com/

Remote Art Talks is a special web series produced by Toronto-based art blog and directory @artifiernet in partnership with @partial.gallery.

For artist followers of Remote Art Talks, Partial Gallery is offering a discount on Pro artist plans. Partial is a curated online directory of noteworthy independent artists. Go to partial.gallery, create a free profile, and use the code REMOTE to get a 10% discount on your Pro plan.

We believe in the power of connection, even if we're at home in isolation.

You can follow the project on Instagram with the hashtag: #RemoteArtTalks

By consciously tuning herself into the natural world, Toronto-based artist Johanna Reynolds creates dynamic abstractions using oil and acrylic paint. Reynolds’ work is known for elegant, contemplative layers interrupted by moody, gestural bursts of unexpected colour.

In this episode Johanna Reynolds talks to Carla, founder of Artifier, about how she first discovered her love for painting, where these abstracted landscapes come from and she even takes us on a little tour around her home studio as we dive into the collective experience of being in confinement and how this period could leave a long lasting effect in our lives for the better.

In this episode Johanna Reynolds joins Artifier’s Carla Rojas for a chat about discovering her love of painting, her creative processes and adapting to working isolation. Diving into the collective experience of being in confinement, Johanna also shares a tour of her home studio and showcases some of her favourite pieces from fellow artists along the way.

You can follow Johanna Reynolds on instagram: @johanna_reynolds

Find Johanna Reynolds online: https://www.johannareynolds.ca/

Remote Art Talks is a special web series produced by Toronto-based art blog and directory @artifiernet in partnership with @partial.gallery.

For artist followers of Remote Art Talks, Partial Gallery is offering a discount on Pro artist plans. Partial is a curated online directory of noteworthy independent artists. Go to partial.gallery, create a free profile, and use the code REMOTE to get a 10% discount on your Pro plan.

We believe in the power of connection, even if we're at home in isolation.

You can follow the project on Instagram with the hashtag: #RemoteArtTalks

Renowned Canadian artist Alex McLeod chats with Tammy about the relationships between nature and technology, fashion and art, and how the physical and virtual realms sometimes intertwine. McLeod discusses the learning curve of expanding his practice from a decade of prints and video to include three-dimensional work, and shares his optimism about this strange time we’re in and the new, innovative art that can come out of it.

Alex McLeod is a Toronto-based artist that uses technology to create sanguin simulated landscapes and other artifacts of nature through animations, prints, and 3D sculptures. His print and video work is collected by several major corporate and government institutions, including Global Affairs Canada, and is represented by Division Gallery.

You can follow Alex McLeod on instagram: @alex_mcleod_

Alex is currently selling limited edition prints of FLOWERS FOREVER, 13"x19", inkjet, edition of 50.  100% of the profits will go to independent artists who have been impacted by Covid-19.  Many artists need support for themselves and their children and are impacted and under-resourced because of this pandemic. Support by purchasing a print on his online store: https://www.alxclub.com/store

Remote Art Talks is a special web series produced by Toronto-based art blog and directory @artifiernet in partnership with @partial.gallery.

For artist followers of Remote Art Talks, Partial Gallery is offering a discount on Pro artist plans. Partial is a curated online directory of noteworthy independent artists. Go to partial.gallery, create a free profile, and use the code REMOTE to get a 10% discount on your Pro plan.

We believe in the power of connection, even if we're at home in isolation.

You can follow the project on Instagram with the hashtag: #RemoteArtTalks

We had the pleasure of speaking with Raoul Olou, a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His work focuses on home, belonging and archiving the mundane, and is characterized by bold brushstrokes that skillfully play with light and shadow. Olou describes his work as a visual diary of his recent move to Toronto and is currently fascinated with capturing the transition between day and night, a moment he describes as entre chien et loup.

You can follow Raoul Olou on instagram: @raoul_o

Remote Art Talks is a special web series produced by Toronto-based art blog and directory @artifiernet in partnership with @partial.gallery.

For artist followers of Remote Art Talks, Partial Gallery is offering a discount on Pro artist plans. Partial is a curated online directory of noteworthy independent artists. Go to partial.gallery, create a free profile, and use the code REMOTE to get a 10% discount on your Pro plan.

We believe in the power of connection, even if we're at home in isolation.

You can follow the project on Instagram with the hashtag: #RemoteArtTalks

Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, art director and curator Lauren Pirie joined Tammy from Partial Gallery for a heartfelt conversation about art, artists and life in self-isolation.

Speaking from self-isolation in her 400 sq. ft. apartment, Pirie shared honest reflections on the challenges of creating while in confinement, moving her art studio into her living space, and her thoughts on how this strange period of time might impact the way we perceive and consume art in general.

Pirie also discusses how her practice has evolved from her signature delicate, intricate ink drawings to include large-scale murals and, more recently, installation. With recent large-scale installation pieces at Ontario Place’s Winter Light Exhibition and MOCA, the artist shares insights from her transition into this new medium.

You can follow Lauren Pirie on instagram: @lapirie

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For artist followers of Remote Art Talks, Partial Gallery is offering a discount on Pro artist plans. Partial is a curated online directory of noteworthy independent artists. Go to partial.gallery, create a free profile, and use the code REMOTE to get a 10% discount on your Pro plan.

We believe in the power of connection, even if we're at home in isolation.

You can follow the project on Instagram with the hashtag: #RemoteArtTalksa

Hugo Laliberté is the co-founder of Ottomata Studio, an experiential design studio based in Montreal creating immersive installations that invite audiences to interact with sound and light.

We talked about what is #NewArtMedia, what it takes to produce an interactive installation and how to start a career in the industry.

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Ottomata studio believes that most great things in life happen when we take action. We explore this idea in our work by creating collaborative immersive spaces and interactive installations that take place in the public space in which the human is at the center. In their projects, the public is invited to break the boundaries between spectator and actor and engage into deep and meaningful interactions in order to get back in the present moment.

You can follow Ottomata on instagram: @ottomatastudio

- Show notes available on: artifier.net/remotearttalks

Remote Art Talks is a special web series produced by Toronto-based art blog and directory @artifiernet in partnership with @partial.gallery.

For artist followers of Remote Art Talks, Partial Gallery is offering a discount on Pro artist plans. Partial is a curated online directory of noteworthy independent artists. Go to partial.gallery, create a free profile, and use the code REMOTE to get a 10% discount on your Pro plan.

We believe in the power of connection, even if we're at home in isolation.

You can follow the project on Instagram with the hashtag: #RemoteArtTalks

In this episode we take a peek into Toronto-based artist Alison Postma’s mind and learn about where these always dreamy and often quirky images she creates come from. P.S. we even got a mini tour around her home-studio! 👀

Alison Postma graduated from the University of Guelph’s undergraduate studio art program in 2016 and is now based in Toronto. Her work has focused on themes of perception in dreams and ideas of the future from the past. Most recently her practice has focused on physically getting to know objects. Alison’s practice is always informed by the mundane and day-to-day, usually by materials encountered and stories overheard.

You can follow Alison on instagram: @rumalow

Find Alison online: https://www.alisonpostma.ca/

- Show notes available on: artifier.net/remotearttalks

- Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube

Remote Art Talks is a special web series produced by Toronto-based art blog and directory @artifiernet in partnership with @partial.gallery.

For artist followers of Remote Art Talks, Partial Gallery is offering a discount on Pro artist plans. Partial is a curated online directory of noteworthy independent artists. Go to partial.gallery, create a free profile, and use the code REMOTE to get a 10% discount on your Pro plan.

We believe in the power of connection, even if we're at home in isolation.

You can follow the project on Instagram with the hashtag: #RemoteArtTalks