Containment: Lindsay Craig & Meg Ida
(May 18 - June 30, 2006)

Lindsay Craig and Meg Ida bring to the world their distinctive pieces of art expressing their voice and identity as an artist. Lindsay Craig and Meg Ida each create sculptural objects that embody multiple-layered concepts.Dealing with issues of feminity and popular culture, the various vessels act as a carrier for significant dialogue about gender roles and issues of identity. 

Vancouver-born multifaceted artist, Lindsay Craig says “My work isn’t about fitting into the good taste aesthetic, good taste often seems the safe and narrow choice. There are many varieties of schools or tastes in objects, and in the environments people make for themselves. It's possible to enjoy more than one.” She incorporates her skills of a sculptor, jewelry designer, illustrator, fabric designer and painter into a piece of art adding a new dimension to it. Her works represent an amalgamation of sculpture and drawings at the same time. Her works have influences of African religion, Roman Catholic imagery and pop culture icons, Greek Godesses and Mermaids. She loves the idea of juxtaposing contrasts, or whatever is available religious imagery to bottles, dolls or beads and transform them into powerful pieces of art.

Ceramic artist, Meg Ida gets her inspiration from French decorative ceramics as well as pop culture icons such as Andy Warhol and Colonel Sanders accentuating it with her own witty interpretation on gender, social issues, reproduction and other aspects of human biology. Meg says, " What amazes me is how the symbols and values of previous generations are viewed differently now with little awareness of previous interpretations". Each piece of Meg's work has a multitude of inherent meaning metaphorically attached to it apart from its visually enticing appeal.