Staff and Board

Julia Prudhomme is a curator and an artist who lives and works on the tum xula7xw of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx otherwise known as Winlaw/Nelson, B.C. She is developing a feminist curatorial practice that focuses upon artistic process, experimentation, and radical care within (and against) institutions. In addition to curatorial projects Julia holds a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC (2013). Her artistic practice is often collaborative, working in video and installation, zines and mixtapes, and has presented this work across Canada, United States, and Europe. Julia has contributed to public art galleries and artist-run centres in numerous capacities for over ten years and continues this work as a doctoral candidate at McMaster University (PhD-c ABD, 2017-present) and Executive Director at Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson, BC (2019-present). 

riya is a student of creative expression. she practices embodiment through dance, visual + word forms, tracing mystery in the vein of beauty and understanding. she is interested in collaborative process, all the while engaging with the air, the space around it.

Emilie Leblanc-Kromberg started her practice in the applied arts and has been a professional artist since 2010. Materials, their transformation and ancient techniques where aspects that ignited the spark that brought emilie to work with metals, textiles and clay. Goldsmith by trade, she explored the subject of adornment by the making and selling her jewellery designs in art shows across Canada.

Since studying Fine Art in the Netherlands at the ArtEZ AKI Academy for Arts & Design, her work has expended out of the 3-dimensional form to incorporate painting, photography, video and sound. Through the exploration of these new mediums in tandem to her initial disciplines she seeks to investigate the multi faceted bonds between human and object.

Christine Wallace
My textiles practice is based in history and anthropology, with the aim of surfacing self-awareness in this moment. Dedicated to continuous and curious learning, exploring the arts through community. 

Erica Konrad is an interdisciplinary artist working in mixed-media paintings, ceramics, and installation work. She has a university background in environmental studies and is primarily self-taught as an artist, with supplemental formal training locally, provincially and internationally. She also runs an artist residency to foster creativity and collaboration. www.ericakonrad.com @ericakonradart

Laurel Terlesky is an interdisciplinary Canadian artist. Her works have been experienced internationally on-screen — television, large-scale projection, the internet — and in exhibitions. This is her forth year on the Oxygen ARC board.

Terlesky’s work examines the use of technology to communicate and build relationships. She explores what is often left out: tacit recognition and implicit awareness through a physical encounter: visual, touched, and sensed.

Explore more of Laurel Terlesky’s work at http://laurelterlesky.ca and follow her on Instagram at http://instagram/twirlingsky

Clee Alice/Brandt is a lover of all things creative. With a background in childcare, they have seen the importance of play and imagination when living a happy and healthy life. Now more then ever they wish to encourage those around them to dream, hope, and create, using the two most important tools, your heart and your brain.

Clee Alice has spent most of their life learning about the arts and the people that make it happen. Coming from a long line of crafters and storytellers, it’s instinctual for them to do both. Whether it’s running a DND campaign, making stop motion animations, or writing songs, stories of love and resilience always plays a part in what they create. They believe everyone is an artist, and imagination, like everything else, Is a skill you can learn. More then anything, they wish to inspire those around them to dream bigger, for anything is possible in this magical universe.

Allison Morgan studied fine arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and The Emily Carr College of Art and Design. After practicing as a professional artist in Vancouver, Calgary, Barcelona, and Rome, she returned to creative research and completed her Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Calgary. Allison’s creative work predominantly focusses on revealing hidden power structures that are characterized by their naturalization in society, and their efficacy in deploying social and cultural camouflage. She is interested in how the way we project, influences the way we construct our identity. Allison’s art practise predominantly focussed on painting for past 30 yrs, but currently her work is expressed through installation, video and photography. Allison is co founder of the arts collective the-collab.ca

Kevin Suggitt is an intermedia artist, engineer, maker and long-time student of human behaviour who resides in Nelson, B.C., working at the intersection of drawing, photography, collage, moving image, animation, software and interactive systems.

His practice explores the socially and culturally transmitted patterns which take root in body tissues and come to form apertures of perception, and the role of technologically mediated experience in these dynamics. He is dedicated to strengthening interdisciplinary and collaborative practice and supporting the region’s vibrant creative culture.