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Paperhouse Studio has collaborated with Toronto-based artists to highlight a material that is so familiar that it is often invisible - paper!

Ten established and emerging artists, who thoughtfully use materials, have been invited to experiment and collaborate with expert papermakers Emily Cook and Flora Shum. They have worked one-on-one with the artists, asking the question: “What does it mean to think with paper?” Each artist has donated half of the new work that they have created in support of the studio and its programming. Works made for the first benefit exhibition will be on view at:TYPOLOGY Projects from March 10th to March 20th, 2016, gallery hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12pm-5pm.

Paperhouse Studio is pleased to host a casual conversation with select In House artists from the show starting from 6pm. Following the conversation, please join us for a reception at TYPOLOGY Projects (unit 302) from 7pm until 11pm.Delicious cocktails, oysters and hors d’oeuvres will be provided by our event partners. Participate in a raffle for the chance to win an In House art piece and end the night with a dance party by DJ Mary Mack!Artists in Conversation: March 18th, 2016, 6pmOpening Reception: March 18th, 2016, 7pm - 11pm

Heather Nicol, Ready for the Doorbell, 2016, glass, abaca paper, copper wire, watercolour, 14 x11x11”

Nicole Collins, Pamela Dodds, Michelle Forsyth, Annyen Lam, Heather Nicol, Emma Nishimura, Shani Parsons, Ed Pien, Jonathan Scott, Penelope Stewart

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:TORONTO, ON. FEBRUARY 29th 2016 MEDIA CONTACT: EMILY [email protected] | 416.886.9287

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Paperhouse Studio is a vibrant, educational and art production facility. We provide expertise and a dedicated, fully-equipped studio for artists to discover the potential of handmade paper in their contempo-rary art practices. Located at Artscape Youngplace in downtown Toronto, our studio is an experimental space in which to explore all manner of paper-related arts. Alongside our artist projects, we run workshops spanning from beginner to professional level. Additionally, we run a volunteer-for-rent program that offers young and emerging artists a space to create their artwork in exchange for their time.

Nicole Collins’ artistic practice focuses on the effect of time, accumulation, force and heat on a wide range of visceral materials, through painting, drawing, installation, intervention, video, and sound. Since 1994 she has exhibited extensively including solo exhibitions at The Art Gallery of Ontario (2013), The University of Waterloo Art Gallery (2013), and The Embassy of Canada in Tokyo (2001). Her work has been featured in Abstract Painting in Canada (Nasgaard), and the 3rd edition of A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Reid). Collins is an Assistant Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCADU) and she lives in Toronto with her husband artist Michael Davidson. Her work is represented by General Hardware Contemporary in Toronto.

Annyen Lam is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University (2012) as well as the Medal for Printmaking (2012). Her practice includes cut paper works, installation, lithography, screenprinting and book arts. She has exhibited throughout Canada and has partici-pated in shows and print exchanges in Japan, Russia and Venezuela.

Heather Nicol is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator based in Toronto. She has created site-specific installations in New York City for Arts Brookfield USA (The Winter Garden), in Toronto for Art Brookfield Canada, (Allen Lambert Galleria) and Nuit Blanche, (Union Station – the Great Hall), as well as Sculpture Centre (New York), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Hallwalls (Buffalo), Chateau de Courances, (Milly, France), Kunstlerhaus Betanien, (Berlin), among others. Her curatorial projects have often explored site-specific conditions as found in decommissioned, underutilized, repurposed and educational locations, and have fostered opportunities for large groups of artists working across a wide range of disciplines. She received her BFA (honours) from the School of Visual Arts in New York, MA in art education from NYU, and interdisciplinary MFA from OCAD University.

Pamela Dodds is a visual artist and printmaker. She was born in Halifax, NS, grew up in Toronto and was transplanted to the USA, returning to Canada in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions across the USA and Canada. In 2014 she received the Barbara Deming grant for Feminist Art. She has also received support from the Ontario Arts Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Gottlieb Foundation, N.Y. She was 2008 Nick Novak Fellow and 2013 Hexagon Fellow at Open Studio Printmaking Centre, Toronto. Her work has been reviewed in Art New England, Boston Globe, and Globe and Mail, among others, and purchased for public collections including Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Purdue University, Illinois; Boston Public Library, Massachusetts; The Japanese Paper Place, Toronto; and is included in the collection of Carleton University and many private collections. She currently lives in Toronto.

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Michelle Forsyth holds an MFA from Rutgers University and a BFA from the University of Victoria. Her work has been included in numerous exhibition in cities including Seattle, WA; New York, NY; and Doha, Qatar. She has been the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Artist Trust, and was awarded the Larry Sommers Memorial Fellowship from Seattle Print Arts. She currently serves on the board of CARFAC Ontario and has taught at Pratt Institute (New York, NY); Brooklyn College; The University of Souther Maine; Washington State University; and is currently an associate professor at OCAD University.

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Currently based in Toronto, Emma Nishimura received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013 and her BA from the University of Guelph in 2005. Her work ranges from traditional etchings, archival pigment prints, drawings, and sculpture to art installations. Using a diversity of media, her work addresses ideas of memory and loss that are rooted within family stories and inherited narratives. Her work is in public and private collections and has been exhibited in both Canada and the United States. Emma is currently teaching printmaking courses at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, the University of Guelph and Sheridan College.

Penelope Stewart was born in Montréal, Québec. She received an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and in 2010 she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts (RCA). Her work has been exhibited at such notable institutions as The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo New York; Musée d'Art de Joliette, Québec; Lotusland, Montecito, California; Musée Barthétè, Boussan, France; Koffler Gallery, Toronto; Oakville Galleries, Ontario; Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Ontario; ACT Design Museum Canberra, Australia; Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Currently on exhibit, Cleave …a walk in the wilderness, is the first part of a yearlong project at Dawson College, Montréal and in 2017 Stewart will be Artist in Residence at the Medalta Museum in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Since the mid-90s, Shani K Parsons has pursued a multidisciplinary practice focused initially on architec-ture and urban planning, then installation and graphic design, and most recently research, writing, curation, and collaboration. In the process she has produced an eclectic body of work ranging from intimate artist’s books to immersive exhibitions for venues including the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Rhode Island School of Design, the Museum of Chinese in America, and Mixed Greens, a contemporary art gallery in Chelsea. After nearly a decade of living and working in New York, Shani moved to Toronto, where she is building a new space for curatorial and artistic inquiry and practice in TYPOLOGY.

Ed Pien has shown work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Goethe Institute, Berlin; The Drawing Center, NYC; the AGO; Oboro, Montreal; Macintosh Gallery, London; The BlueCoate, Liverpool; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; the Musée des beaux arts and Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; Songzhuang Art Centre, Beijing, and the National Art Gallery of Canada. He recently participated in Oh Canada, MASS MoCA, the Sydney, Moscow and Beijing Biennales. Pien teaches part-time at the University of Toronto and is represented by Birch Contemporary,Toronto; Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, and Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague.

Jonathan Scott is a Scottish artist living and working in Toronto. He received his MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2005, and has exhibited internationally with shows in London, Melbourne, Beijing, Stockholm and Lima. He has been the recipient of multiple grants, awards and scholarships, and is currently a PhD candi-date in Visual Art at York University. His expansive art practice spans a wide range of media and is driven by a will to give form to Devolved Sculpture. Scott is represented by Mulherin Toronto / New York.

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