ARTIST VOICES with Carmel Brennan
The practice of Socially Engaged Art and the Project, Letters to the Earth: Between Despair and Hope.
When participants write a letter by hand, they are fully engaged, not only in the thoughts of the letter but in the action of the hand movement as part of your body fully engaged physically emotionally.
Participants challenge the short-term, profit driven response with an answer: that in the long term it’s far more costly to destroy your total ecology… the capacity to create forms images and metaphors that can transmit the implications to viewers in compelling or persuasive manner so that literally they (viewers) see the problem differently. In this project want to make an impact on the viewers and have them become a part of the conversation about climate change.
Artist Bio:
Born in the UK, of Irish parents, Carmel Brennan has been a professional artist since the late 1970’s. She holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Art and
Archaeology. A former teacher of Visual Arts, she is a Past President of the Ontario Society of Artists and has curated major exhibitions for the Uxbridge Artist Collective from 2009 to 2018, called, Work from Heart Mind & Hand. She was the Curator of an Exhibition of OSA artwork at the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario at Queens Park, Toronto (2022). Her current project since 2021 is, Letters to the Earth: Between Despair and Hope. She is also part of the Uxbridge Studio Tour which takes place annually on the 3rd weekend of September.
November 20, 2025
1–2 p.m. via Zoom
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