Biography
My name is Emily Rose Govier Honderich. I live and work in Toronto and Canmore Alberta, Canada.
The Mediums I work with include Acrylic, Oil, Watercolour, Digital Illustrations, Charcoal, Knitting, Crochet, Rug Hooking, and Weaving.
My art related education includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Integrated Media from the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Artist Statement
Emily Honderich, was born in 1983 in Toronto, Canada. I create media artworks,paintings, and drawings.By experimenting with form and structure, I formalize the coincidental and reveal the conscious composition process behind seemingly random selections of objects. My thought processes are frequently revealed as assemblages.I consider art-making to be a craft executed by using clear rules that always refer back to social reality.I question the divide between memory and experience. I want to bring the viewer into the stream of the current moment.My works are formal but they are also poetic. My images reveal the instability of what we see as reality.The humans and objects in my work have a natural awkwardness. This creates humour and shows an individuals vulnerabilities.I want the viewer to become a component of the art.
I have been mainly producing abstract paintings and iPad illustrations throughout
the past five years. Some of my artwork was published by The Toronto School
of Art “Spring newsletter: Abstract Art Woman on Street” and included in the
Brain Injury Society of Toronto: Annual Art Show respectively. My
illustrations are also included in The Shoe Project Covid: Across Canada 81
illustrations for 81 stories. I also have worked for years as a freelance graphic
designer for The Shoe Project. I have volunteered for The Brain Injury Society of
Toronto, and have also exhibited my work with Workman Arts.
Education
2008 - 2022 Integrated Media
Ontario College of Art and Design
4th year completed April 23, 2023
Toronto, Canada
2005 - 2006 Bachelor of Arts
First 3 courses completed.
University of Calgary
Calgary, Ontario, Canada
2003 - 2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts - Media Arts and
Digital Technology
3rd year completed.
Alberta University of the Arts
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2002 - 2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of Guelph
1st year completed
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Exhibitions
2024 – Art on the Brain Expressive Arts Show
https://bist.ca/art/2024-virtual-art-on-the-brain-expressive-art-show/emily-honderich/
2022 - 2022 Logo designed commissioned for future Calgary Peace Museum
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2021 - 2021 Being Scene
Workman Arts
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2019 - 2020 Expressive Arts Show
Brain Injury Society of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Group Exhibition
1997 - 1997 Solo Exhibition
Weeds Cafe
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Awards
2023 Volunteer of the Year Brain Injury Society of Toronto
DaVinci Award in Art and Design (Abelard School)
Membership
2022 - 2022 Power Plant
2022 - 2022 Blue Mountain
2022 - 2022 The Power Plant
2018 - 2020: Arts and Letters Club
2014 - 2022 Royal Ontario Museum
2010 - 2022: Art Gallery of Ontario
2009 - 2022 Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre
2008 - 2022 Toronto Lawn Tennis Club
2008 - 2010 North West Mounted Police Barracks
Professional Experience
2020 - Present Freelance: Artist and Graphic Designer
eRose Graphics
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2022 – 2024 Brain Injury Society of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
2019 - 2020 Legal Assistant
Blake Cassels and Graydon LLP
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011 - 2022 Graphic Designer
The Shoe Project
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2010 - 2011: Assistant Librarian
Toronto Star Library
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2009 - 2022 Host and Museum Clerk
Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre
Canmore, Alberta, Canada
2007 - 2008 Bookseller
Cafe Books
Canmore, Alberta, Canada
2005 - 2006 General and Photography Assistant
Otherwise, Editions
Toronto, Ontario, Canada