SHADOWLAND AT THE REDPATH: Solo exhibition
EIDOLONS: Review
EIDOLONS: Catalogue
EIDOLONS: Solo exhibition
Border Crossings
“Shadowland”, Portfolio, Lorraine Simms
Border Crossings, Human / Nature, Issue #159, May 2022
SHADOWLAND: Solo exhibition
SHADOWLAND: In the News
Simms, Lorraine. “Shadowland”, Portfolio, Border Crossings, Human / Nature, Issue #159, 2022.
“Terre obscure est un ajout temporaire de grande valeur au musée. Cette exposition offre une nouvelle perspective dans une atmosphère fantomatique propice à l’imagination des visiteurs.”
Lalonde, Gabrielle. “Lorraine Simms, Terre obscure”. Espace online, May 2022.
“In the end, it’s an exhibition that not only captures the spirit of endangered animals and birds and infuses them with movement, but also evokes reflection on the potentially fleeting nature of life on Earth, perhaps more so than any scientific data.”
Saxberg, Lynn. “Exhibit at Ottawa’s museum of nature finds art in the shadows of endangered animals”. Ottawa Citizen, 10 December 2021.
“The results are truly haunting and beautiful. They are traces of the real thing, just like the chemically‑treated specimens can be said to be traces of the live creatures that once roamed.”
Valley, Taymaz. “Exhibition: Shadowland at the Museum of Nature”. Apt613.ca, 15 December 2021.
“These ethereal drawings serve as echoes from the gradual extinction of the threatened and endangered species used in her work.”
Tynes-MacDonald, Phalen. “Ghostly exhibit at Canadian Museum of Nature explores shadow of extinction hanging over vulnerable species”. Capital Current, Arts & Culture, 13 December 2021.
“Loin d’être traditionnels, les dessins d’ombrages de Lorraine Simms ne sont pas ceux d’animaux, mais ceux d’os, de vertèbres ou d’espèces naturalisées. L’occasion d’interpeller le visiteur de façon métaphorique sur la menace qui pèse sur ces animaux. Et s’ils ne devenaient plus que des ombres dans nos mémoires?”
Lejeune, Anicée. “Des espèces menacées entre l’ombre et la lumière”. Le Droit, 12 December 2021.
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN: Two-person exhibition
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN: In the News
“In contrast to Griebel’s humorous futuristic vision, Simms reminds us of the realities of ecological devastation. Her care and attention evoke simultaneous love and grief: solastalgia. Shadowlands is both funereal and haunting”.
Bunnell, Alexa. “The Distance Between: Two artists explore the emotional impact of ecological destruction”. Galleries West online magazine, February 21, 2022
Shadowland video
Video documenting my process
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Residencies in 2018–2019
This video documents Lorraine Simms’ drawing process and her research at the American Museum of Natural History.
Documents of Collapse: Two-person exhibition
Lorraine Simms and Jude Griebel
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Vancouver, Canada
November 21, 2019–April 19, 2020
The drawings can be found in SHADOWLAND in the Works section.
Empire of Bones
Empire of Bones, text and images by Lorraine Simms
Antennae, The journal of nature and visual culture, #49, Autumn 2019
Book cover
Portrait Box 12
Oil on board, 2017
Tout ce que nous avons vu
Translation of poetry by Anne Michaels
Shadow Brokers: Three-person exhibition
Lorraine Simms, Bea Parsons and Clement Valla
Shadow Brokers: Catalogue
Images and interviews with the artists
