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Charley Young
Charley Young
“As a child, the daughter of mountaineers, I traced the alpine landscape with my feet; traversing summits, glaciers, moraines, and rock faces. My approach to drawing mimics this direct, physical and exploratory interaction with site, using frottage, transfers and inventive processes. Through means of erasure, pressure and trace, I mimic the reductive nature of the environment and draft tactile impressions of places in flux,” Charley Young.
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Charley Young is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and public installation. Her work explores themes of trace and ephemerality through site-based interactions. To date, Young’s work includes large-scale monoprints of historic building facades, intimate portraits of vanishing mountains and frottage rubbings of arctic icebergs.
Charley holds a Masters in Fine Arts (2014) from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine and a Bachelors of Fine Arts (2008) from NSCAD University in Halifax.
Charley has been an artist-in-residence at The Tides Institute and Museum of Art (2017), The Arctic Circle Program (2014), The Banff Centre (2013), The Vermont Studio Centre (2013), Spark Box Studios (2013), The Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture (2012).
Charley’s work is in various collections including: The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Art Bank, and Global Affairs Canada. Her work has been exhibited at MSVU Art Gallery (Halifax NS), SPACE Gallery (Portland, Maine), Free Will North Church Project Space (Eastport, Maine), The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, NS), Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (Halifax, NS).
Charley is Regular Part-Time Faculty at NSCAD University where she teaches drawing and printmaking. Charley works out of her studio located in the North End of Halifax and lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia.
Charley has been fortunate to receive support from Arts Nova Scotia and has artwork in the collection of the Nova Scotia Art Bank. In 2012 she received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/ Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenants Governor Award presented by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Studio 21 has exhibited her work in Halifax, at Art Toronto and the Papier art fair in Montreal.
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Charley Young is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and public installation. Her work explores themes of trace and ephemerality through site-based interactions. To date, Young’s work includes large-scale monoprints of historic building facades, intimate portraits of vanishing mountains and frottage rubbings of arctic icebergs.
Charley holds a Masters in Fine Arts (2014) from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine and a Bachelors of Fine Arts (2008) from NSCAD University in Halifax.
Charley has been an artist-in-residence at The Tides Institute and Museum of Art (2017), The Arctic Circle Program (2014), The Banff Centre (2013), The Vermont Studio Centre (2013), Spark Box Studios (2013), The Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture (2012).
Charley’s work is in various collections including: The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Art Bank, and Global Affairs Canada. Her work has been exhibited at MSVU Art Gallery (Halifax NS), SPACE Gallery (Portland, Maine), Free Will North Church Project Space (Eastport, Maine), The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, NS), Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (Halifax, NS).
Charley is Regular Part-Time Faculty at NSCAD University where she teaches drawing and printmaking. Charley works out of her studio located in the North End of Halifax and lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia.
Charley has been fortunate to receive support from Arts Nova Scotia and has artwork in the collection of the Nova Scotia Art Bank. In 2012 she received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/ Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenants Governor Award presented by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Studio 21 has exhibited her work in Halifax, at Art Toronto and the Papier art fair in Montreal.