Shelagh Keeley, At the Table/MoMA Library Project
Shelagh Keeley’s work is rooted in a drawing practice that is keenly observant, dancerly and physical, yet conceptually rooted in extensive and relentless research into politics, philosophy, and art history.
Shelagh Keeley’s edition with I Heart Your Work Art Futures is a beautifully framed archival print about the performative engagement of making artwork and the iterative and bodily process of collaboration, documentation, archiving and memory.
The image selected for Shelagh’s Art Futures project will be of the artist’s table: for the artist, the table is a place of thought and composition, laying out and preparing, creating. Conceptually, the images relate to the artist’s research project commissioned by MoMA Library/Archive.
The performance of a collaboration between Shelagh and choreographer/dancer Lin Snelling, this project was inspired by MoMA’s Library space and archives, and formed another chapter of the decades-long research project, titled Performing Book.
In 2017 Shelagh Keeley was awarded Canada’s most prestigious Governor General Award, for her work over the past four decades in developing a oeuvre that includes, in addition to her celebrated drawings, photography, film and artist books. Through these media which she skillfully intertwines in her collage and installation work, Keeley has had enduring interests in power structures, and in the physical relationship between individuals, their surroundings, their stories, and their work.
An edition of 10, Shelagh’s project, At the Table, is available to Art Futures collectors for $1200 (+ shipping). The framed wall piece measures 14.5”x 17”. To become a patron of Shelagh’s and own this exclusive piece, email ihyw(at)iheartyourwork.com, to arrange payment or pay simply and securely here:
More about Shelagh
Shelagh Keeley was the 2017 recipient of Canada’s prestigious Governor General Award. Born in Oakville, ON Shelagh now lives and works in Toronto after living twenty-two years in New York City and Paris. Keeley’s recent projects have been presented at IFA Gallery, Stuttgart (2017); Vancouver Art Gallery (2017); Museum Colecao Berardo, Lison (2016); MoMA Library and Archives, New York (2015); The Power Plant, Toronto (2014); Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2015) and Ryerson Image Center, Toronto (2013). Keeley has also been part of a large number of international group shows including: The Canadian Biennale at the National Gallery of Canada (2017); The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding at The Power Plant, Toronto (2015); In Order to Join – The Political in a Historical Moment at Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany (2013) and Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, India (2015). In 2013 Keeley created a collaborative book project with refugee children entitled Desire to Join and published by Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany (2013). Her work is included in public collections including MoMA, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Les Musées de la Ville de Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Vancouver Art Gallery. You can find out more about Shelagh at her website shelaghkeeley.com.
