Green Prescriptions and other Colours

During Covid-19, Shanahan adapted their practice to work within the constraints of the domestic space when the sculpture studios and art communities in Montreal were forced to lock down. She sought to process shared experiences while simultaneously keeping connection to a network of artists in very isolating times. Over Zoom artists would meet and talk about the pandemic, financial instabilities, climate anxieties and artistic endeavours. Together and with the help of the virtual, they would create works and snippets from the day which would be painted, drawn or sculpted in short three minute creations, stacked to produce a series of small non-precious works that catalogued memories. This artistic approach which was born during the Pandemic and during a time of great need for community Shanahan calls Daily Art Practice.

Green Prescriptions and other Colours; amid boundaries and blades of grass is a development of many three minute contemplations, feelings, and exchanges that took place during that time. This show reminds us of the shared return to the garden at peak points of the pandemic, feelings around the indoors and outdoors, and the overwhelming inescapable presence of human waste and debris. These works seek to reflect on shared experiences that now in a fast-paced post-pandemic society, we are slowly beginning to forget.