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David Campion
David Campion and Sandra Shields create photo-text installations around the themes of power and its blind spots. They make a practice of appropriating pop literary forms as a means of sharing uncomfortable knowledge. As white artists with personal histories rooted in European expansion, the mechanics of colonization have been a compelling theme for them. They are the authors of several books including the BC Book Prize winner Where Fire Speaks. Their visual art installation Grand Theft Terra Firma tackles settler colonial responsibility head-on. It opened at The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford in 2017, received the BC Museums Award of Excellence, and toured across Canada. They make their home in a trailer park on the reserve lands of the Leq’á:mél First Nation in Deroche, BC.
Contact: British Columbia, Canada