Genevieve Robertson
Artist Talk: Friday, June 5, 2026, at 6:00 PM
Location: Oxygen Art Centre, #3-320 Vernon Street, Nelson, B.C. (alleyway access)
free to attend
Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to host an artist talk featuring Nelson-based artist Genevieve Robertson on Friday, June 5, 2026, at 6:00PM. The event is an extension of Robertson’s Fall 2025 residency at the artist-run centre to share the new body of work developed during this time.
Genevieve Robertson was artist-in-residence at Oxygen Art Centre from November 12, 2025, to December 20, 2025. Robertson works at the intersection of visual art and environmental studies. Her practice is grounded in drawing and painting, extending to video, installation, and various forms of collective work and collaboration. Through long-term place-based research projects, her work explores anthropogenic impacts on ecology and the climate, and the intelligence and interconnection of the life systems of which we are part.
The event will be held at Oxygen Art Centre’s downtown facility, located along the alleyway behind Baker Street at Stanley Avenue, Unit #3A-320 Vernon Street, Nelson, B.C.
This event is free to attend. Doors open at 5:45PM. The talk begins at 6:00PM and will include a short question and answer period at the conclusion of Robertson’s talk.
The Artist Talk will introduce Robertson’s artistic practice, as well as share process-based explorations from her residency and resultant exhibition at the Midlands Art Centre in the UK entitled “Under the Orange Sticks of the Sun,” currently on view this Spring 2026.
Robertson is also currently working with Oxygen Art Centre to offer an online mentorship program entitled “Hedge-rider” this Summer to three emerging, remotely located artists.
About the Artist
Genevieve Robertson works at the intersection of visual art and environmental studies. Her practice is grounded in drawing and painting, extending to video, installation, and various forms of collective work and collaboration. Through long-term place-based research projects, her work explores anthropogenic impacts on ecology and the climate, and the intelligence and interconnection of the life systems of which we are part. Robertson holds a BFA from NSCAD University (Halifax) and an MFA from Emily Carr University (Vancouver). She has been supported through exhibitions, publications, symposia, and residencies internationally. Genevieve’s work is informed by a personal and intergenerational history of forestry labour in remote camps all over British Columbia. She is of mixed European settler ancestry and currently lives and works in Nelson, BC, with her partner and twin toddlers, on the unceded territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx Sinixt Confederacy Arrow Lakes and Yaqan Nukiy Lower Kootenay Band peoples.
The public are invited to attend the artist talk event on Friday, June 5, 2026, at 6:00PM. Oxygen Art Centre is located at #3-320 Vernon Street along the alleyway behind Baker Street in Nelson, British Columbia. More information about how to access the facility can be found here or by contacting info@oxygenartcentre.org.
This program is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, the Vancouver Foundation, and the Regional District of Central Kootenay ReDi program.
Image Credit: Documentation of Genevieve Robertson’s residency at Oxygen Art Centre featuring works in progress, December 2025 (top); Genevieve Robertson, Courtesy the Artist, 2025