RICHELLE FORSEY is an artist and photographer. She draws inspiration for her work through exploring built environments, urban remains and abandonments that she compulsively photographs and collects artifacts from. Forsey incorporates interdisciplinary approaches and multiple medias including: photography, ceramics, text, and found objects, to create works that inspire slow looking, spark imagination, and make sense of the contemporary world.
curtain call, 2018, from my ongoing Urban Remains series
Her work has been shown in Canada, the U.S. and abroad, as well as collaboratively in the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (Toronto).
Forsey is a founding member of the photography collective TLR Club (2004), and a member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. When she is not travelling, Forsey lives and works in Guelph, Ontario.
portrait of a megalomaniac, 2019, from the series Artifacts of photochemical processes & light on sheet film
Upcoming things:
September 21 – October 21, 2019
Salt Spring National Art Prize Finalists Exhibition
Salt Spring Island, BC
Opening Gala September 20, 2019, Gala Awards Night October 21, 2019
March 20 – May 31, 2020
Group Exhibition with Xin (Daniel) He & Sonya Filman
Gallery 44, Production Gallery, Toronto, ON
opening March 20 details: TBA
April – May 2020
Group Exhibition with Gallery 44 members for the Contact Photography Festival
Details TBA
4×8 banner image, detail from WIP from the series Artifacts of photochemical processes & light on sheet film