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Malory McGovern- BFA, visual artist, yoga instructor, aromatherapist

As an artist, I love to care for others. Through shared connections, art, stories and laughter I seek to assist others in exploring and realizing methods of therapy. I have been exploring many healing modalities in my own life and through my artistic practice, I hope to break something open in your life to allow for collective healing. I believe that everyone is in need of some form of healing and I foster a sense of opening the self to receiving your authentic truth as the key to health.

Malory McGovern

Producing artwork is a way for me to deal with issues that arise in my daily life such as physical challenges and the inability to move or use my body in the same ways that an uninjured person, or myself three years ago, might.

 

Through the medium of paint I like to explore dream imagery, the magic within daily reality and especially nature, emotions and questions of the human body’s ability to feel and heal. Energy and vibration exist within and connects every living thing. This energy is captivating and beautiful to me as something unseen but often felt. It is this that I explore when I create.

 

I feel energy as its own living and breathing entity and each painting becomes like a portrait of a breath. A fleeting unseen and unattainable moment that one can only experience with full and open consciousness. This is the way that I view art and hope that my own art will be viewed. 

 

Following a hiatus from producing art in my life due to physical injury, I was drawn into a period of heightened emotional sensitivity leaving me to painfully exist in a world that I could no longer explore physically. This left me with the only option of dreaming of a world that I could explore in my mind and patiently wait for a time when I could create that world for myself through paint.

 

My artwork also focuses on and functions as a therapy for anxiety and trauma. When I get lost in the creative process I am able to look at my anxiety as outside of myself, a way of reconnecting to my authentic truth. Creating provides a state of peace and one of the most satisfying things I have ever experienced is witnessing another person find their own state of peace through the viewing of my work.

 

I now understand anxiety as a dialogue with my physical body which is informing me when I’m out of touch with the energies flowing around and within me. The act of painting and creating becomes a method of separating myself from my anxieties while channeling and exploring variations of displaying my experience to an external world that is in need of its own healing. I believe that sharing my own practices of healing will give hope to others that they can find these methods in their own lives and heal themselves too.

 

All of these issues intertwine and become a storyboard of lived experiences, literally painting a picture of a life lived through and healing from traumas and challenges amok. If we all seek to understand these healing as a shift from victimization towards a whole and unified, healed person I believe that we will all know that we can collectively heal one another by sharing our experience.

 

Through my examination of the human body, questions of the perceptions of physical challenges, how someone views injury and illness, arise.  My questions then serve as a platform for me to address discontent with the misinterpretations of disability. Invisible illnesses such as mental health, post-traumatic stress disorder and the varying physical symptoms that cannot be seen just by looking at someone become a conversation developed through art. All of these things lay hidden, waiting to be explored by wanderers. 

Education 

2012 - 2016

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Vancouver, BC, Canada

BFA, Visual Arts (Painting)

Awards 

2016

Gwyn and Aileen Gunn Bursary

2015

Gwyn and Aileen Gunn Bursary

Exhibitions 

Solo

2016

Anatomical Studies, Emily Carr University, Causeway Gallery - Vancouver, BC

2014

Malory McGovern, Skeena Diversity Society Centre - Terrace, BC

Group

2016

Back Alley Artists Night, The Purple Stapler, CBC Studios - Vancouver, BC

2016

2016

The New Salon, Co-curators Julie Mills, Julia Lamare, Jen Dickieson, Yi-Fan Jiang,

Emily Carr University - Vancouver, BC

2015

Elemental Changes: Annual Members Exhibition, Terrace Art Gallery - Terrace, BC

2012

Artists Boardwalk, The Skeena Diversity Society and Skeena Valley Farmers Market International Night Market - Terrace, BC

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