corie waugh

🔥 Notre équipe s'agrandit! Nous souhaitons la bienvenue à Corie Waugh, notre nouvelle co-coordinatrice d'atelier. Corie Waugh est une artiste interdisciplinaire queer, de la classe ouvrière et juive, basée à Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal). Elle travaille la peinture et la sculpture, et s'intéresse particulièrement à la création de traces et d'archives par l'exploration des matériaux, s'orientant récemment vers le travail du métal. Iel s'est formée en soudure et en installation industrielle dans le but de renforcer ses compétences en fabrication de matériaux. Cela lui a permis d'acquérir des compétences accrues en conception, fabrication et travail du métal. 📸 Crédit photo @_selenapb 🔥 Our team is growing! We welcome Corie Waugh, our new co-coordinator of the shop! Corie Waugh is a queer, working class, jewish interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal). She works across painting and sculpture, and has special interest in mark making and archive creation via material exploration, most recently turning to metal work. They have trained in industrial welding and fitting with the intention of bolstering their skills in material fabrication. This experience has provided Waugh with enhanced skills in design, manufacturing, and metalwork. 📸 Photo credit: @_selenapb

Flower, paint on aluminum TIG flower on aluminum plate, 5 × 8 inches, 2025, made for my mother for her birthday. Experimenting more with the tig welding process and a 2D drawing technique - aluminum this time for its lighter weight (can hang this one without an anchor 🫠). Swipe for a pic of the family!

On a scale of medieval jester, how are you feeling today? (Last slide) Drop your jester number in the comments. I made this GTAW (tig) drawing on an enrichment day at school for the very special newly appointed master of art @rosedelariva .. we often send each other scales of this sort 🫠 so i thought, why not make some meme/internet inspired art (not the first time the WWW inspired me) Steel and stainless steel on steel 💪 Meme by @medievalistmatt

Food & Labour exhibition with @conventioncollectiveagreement at Studio Pelican in the Grover Building, Montréal, QC April 26th, 2025. This post includes photos taken during the exhibition by Selena ( @_selenapb ) and the last one of the installation piece was caught by Hanss ( @haannssl ) and scanned images of the collages I created while working with the collective over 1 year + About the project: "Subliminal Feast” explores class realities, survival, and consumption through the lens of a working-class artist. I create non-nourishing objects that reflect my lived experience. Humor and playfulness serve as both coping mechanisms and subtle commentary on larger themes. For this iteration, I ask: How can we depend on art for getting our basic needs met and beyond? What I came to was beautiful moments around my kitchen table with my roommate, where we would go through the weekly deals and compare flyer prices of foods from big grocers in our neighbourhood. This project is a culmination of a years worth of flyer collection, collage making, sculpture creation, and a lot of cringing.

What an adventure! On April 7th, I went to Chevery, QC, to lead workshops in zine making and help host the first ever zine fair at the Nétagamiou school. Working with students from grade two to secondary five, we made zines about their community and interests as part of the *I belong here* and *Artistsinspire* grant programs. I will be thinking of my experience on the lower north shore for years to come. Thank you to Crystal and everyone at Nétagamiou school for welcoming me, and to @learnquebec and @elanarted for providing the funding to make this type of thing happen. // Le 7 avril, je suis allée à Chevery, QC, pour animer des ateliers de fabrication de zines et aider à organiser la première foire aux zines à l'école Nétagamiou. Avec des élèves de la deuxième du primaire à la cinquième année du secondaire, nous avons fabriqué des zines sur leur communauté et leurs intérêts dans le cadre des programmes de subvention *ma place est ici* et *Artistsinspire*. Je penserai à mon expérience sur le bas côte nord pendant des années. Merci à Crystal et à tous les élèves de l'école Nétagamiou de m'avoir accueillie, ainsi qu'à LEARN Quebec et ELAN de fournir le financement nécessaire à la réalisation de ce type d'activités.

INAUGURAL EXHIBITION “FOOD AND LABOUR” and YOU'RE ALL INVITED Vernissage: Saturday, April 26th, 2025 Time: 2 - 5pm Address: #253, 2065 rue Parthenais, Montréal, buzz 2005 for entry. Gallery hours: I will be there on Sunday, April 27th, between 1 and 5 pm. Please contact me if those hours do not work and we can arrange something. Together with artists @unbelievaboyle & @gavinwsewell , I’m excited to share that we’ll be hosting the inaugural exhibition "Food and Labour" for our artist collective @conventioncollectiveagreement on April 26! I’m excited to share work from my labour based project “subliminal feast” integrating bronze sculpture, hand pressed earthen bricks, and paper collage. About the project: “Subliminal Feast” explores class realities, survival, and consumption through the lens of a working-class artist. I create non-nourishing objects that reflect my lived experience. Humor and playfulness serve as both coping mechanisms and subtle commentary on larger themes. When speaking about survival, I mean meeting my own basic needs, such as being able to afford groceries and rent. With the cost of living (EVERYTHING) going up, I find myself cringing at the local grocery store. So I ask: How can we depend on art for getting our basic needs met and beyond? What I came to was beautiful moments around my kitchen table with my roommate, where we would go through the weekly deals and compare flyer prices of foods from big grocers in our neighbourhood. This project is a culmination of a years worth of flyer collection, collage making, sculpture creation, and a lot of cringing. Last slide photo credit: Selena Philips-Boyle

@conventioncollectiveagreement Member spotlight: Corie Waugh (elle, accords féminins) est une artiste queer, juive et membre de la classe ouvrière qui habite à Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal). Elle s’intéresse aux matériaux de sculpture et aux techniques associées à la fonderie d’art et à la construction en pisé. Son travail aborde la création d’identités, la reproduction sociale, la violence étatique et familiale, le désir et la sexualité par le biais des pratiques de cognition incarnée. // Corie Waugh (she) is a queer, working class, jewish interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal). She is interested in working with sculptural materials and techniques within foundry arts and rammed earth construction. Waugh engages with themes of identity creation, social reproduction, domestic and state violence, desire and sexuality through embodiment practices. Photo credit: @_selenapb

Le travail invisible est partout autour de nous et les œuvres d’art devraient l’être aussi. // Invisible labor is all around us and artwork should be too.

La diffusion publique est un élément important de l’agenda du collectif. La beauté est dans la rue. // Public outreach is an important part of the collective’s agenda. Beauty is in the street.

Night Lilies was one of the last pieces created and finished in my studio at Chat des Artistes. It was a slow going process where i chose a simple photo on my roll to recreate using techniques I had learned but not used in a long time. I love painting and what you can do with the material, i hope to have more time to work with paint in my home studio in the future. For now, i doodle and dream ✨️ Details: Night lilies, oil paint on canvas, 30 x 46 inches ish, 2024. Available on my website shop. #flowers #oilpainting #contemporaryart

A continuation of character interpretations of stories and experiences shared by my father. The relationship between the painting "on road" and this one became apparent to me in conversation with a friend and my sister. My father explained to me once that "on road" was the way he and other incarcerated people spoke about being out of the institutions, to be released and be back to the lives they were ripped from. This theme of being out, on the road, a traveller continues in this painting of St Chris, the patron Saint of traveller's (among other things). Also, we are not catholic - he just carried around a pendant of this Saint while he was alive. A pendant that was lost between his time of death and his bodies transport to the hospital. Details: St Christopher, the dog-headed warrior Saint, for Michael and all other traveller's, oil paint on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, 2024

Made of scrap silk, burlap, and some handmade paper, this larger piece has caused some heads to turn... and some comments to be made 😮‍💨 Inspired by some lewd material i was looking at for the PAPER WORK series on paper made of my tax documents. Details: Untitled (woman), ink, pastel, and acrylic paint on raw silk and burlap with tape and paper, 30 x 40 inches, 2024. Available.