Patrick Treacy

(2018-2023)

In Rehearsals, I use found imagery, to create theatrical narratives. My intent in these paintings is to produce liminal landscapes: places of transition, disruption and possibility that arise out of my combining disparately sourced elements. I am also fascinated with gesture, the way we humans position our arms and limbs and what our resulting gestures can convey. 

(2010-Present)

My childhood spent in parts of Manitoba’s and Ontario’s Precambrian Shield continues to exert a strong pull on my creative imagination.  I am trying to find forms for my childhood impressions and ways to place my experiences in a larger cultural context.

I am someone who dislikes clutter. I am also an artist who makes things using innumerable found materials, mostly from books and magazines. As a magpie gatherer, I am always conscious of the need for containment and organization or face chaos in my workspace.

For many years the forest has been one of my enduring subjects. In this project I worked towards an aesthetic of embodiment, creating metaphors for establishing a strong human presence within the landscape. This involves creating spaces that embody many things: memories, dreams, pleasures and sometimes feelings of estrangement and even terror.

In the Acteon Project I use a classical Greek myth with a long history within European visual traditions, as a means of combining the landscape and the human figure. Rather than re-telling the story I am interested in seeing where my experimentation with the concept of metamorphosis will lead me.