Zoë Grace-Anne Laycock is an Interdimensional Broadcaster & Master of Fine Arts (2024). She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design; and minor in Social Practice and Community Engagement.
She is the recipient of the 2022 Mary Plumb Blade Award, excellence in painting/printmaking.
Zoë Grace-Anne Laycock is Anishinaabe Red River Métis, and registered member of Ebb and Flow First Nation (Treaty 2). Born in Calgary AB, and raised within their urban Indigenous community, while also in ceremony and connection to home and surrounding community. Zoe is an interdisciplinary artist working with new media, sound, installation, video projection, as well as textiles, printmaking and Indigenous material practices. Haunting, interdimensional communication and cyclical time informed by her lifelong engagement in Saulteaux ceremony and culture she expresses through time-based media installation and representations of the paranormal – careful to preserve protocol and to avoid active appropriation of what she holds sacred. Zoë works with the privilege of growing up immersed and with a strong connection to community. Before her time at Emily Carr University, she worked with her family run non-profit organization for their urban Indigenous community in Calgary, AB. Zoë takes pride in advocacy for her many circles and maintaining them as strong, thriving and connected.
She is compelled to challenge perspectives, while maintaining the importance of cultural respect and integrity. Zoe maintained strong cultural connection growing up in an urban setting; the importance of protocol and reciprocal relationships to the land remains forefront. She currently works with the natural and supernatural worlds, spirits of place, memory, simultaneous understandings of time, and reflection of ritual.
Reading
- Ribbons and Radars: Stepping Into Interdimensional Decolonization
- ‘Pacific Song of the Ancestors’ Exhibition Makes Space for Indigenous Joy
- Zoë Laycock Finds Balance in Art, Exploration and Community Practice
- Emily Carr Launches Indigenous Art Market
- An Extremely Steep Learning Curve
- Calgary Artists Work Stolen from NW Construction Site
- Decolonizing cultural safety education in the healthcare system through cultural immersion in indigenous knowledge sharing & material practice
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