Indigenous Artist Bio
Extensive travel, frequent moves, and multiple school changes through her formative years, caused Ginny Snowdon to view her world as an outsider looking in. Born in Windsor, Ontario, Snowdon started travelling at age 5 when her parents moved the family to Zimbabwe, Africa. Later, while attending Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Snowdon was in a serious car accident, impressing on her the fleeting sense of our lives, and contributing to a heightened view of life’s pivotal moments. She persevered and graduated with her class earning bachelor’s degrees in sociology and psychology and later a master’s degree in social work at the University of Toronto, fields of study that continue to inform her art.
In 2015 she had her first solo show and has exhibited ever since. Her tendency towards introspection has led her to intensely study the interconnectedness of her life and art. “Our surface view of life is edited. I lean into the unrefined, feeling an urgency to look beneath, to not be satisfied with the polished view. There is often something found behind or underneath that exposes a subtle truth. There is no room for timidness. Bold, decisive art arrived – just like me.”
Artist Statement
Fairy tales, legends and archetypes are timeless stories of human existence, with adversities and demonstrations of courage that shape our evolving personal mythology, including the important space given for the imperfect, unpolished and raw. Stories provide life compasses, while maps and symbols show interior roads and guide posts. These ordinary, seemingly unremarkable moments when dug up and examined, provide context, a rich backdrop, even a narrative, to our lives. I am a digger and a gatherer, a framer of moments inside moments, catching snippets of everyday life, the mundane, the bits we try to hide from ourselves.
Email: snowdonginny@gmail.com
