Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis are award winning interdisciplinary artists, facilitators, and community organizers. Bringing together elements of craft, performance, and cultural geography, they create site-specific and socially-engaged artworks. Together, they have presented public projects and exhibitions at Parks Canada Discovery Centre (Woody Point, Newfoundland), ESKER Project Space (Calgary), Fierce Festival (Birmingham), Grand Union (Birmingham), Battersea Arts Centre (London), Luminato Festival (Toronto), Flux Night (Atlanta), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), and Stromereien Performance Festival (Zürich). In 2016, they were long-listed for the Sobey Art Award.
Image: Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis, The Winds Undercurrent, 2017. Installation, Norris Point/Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland.
Image description: a photograph of a seaweed covered, rocky beach with a body of water in the background. Thin, long pieces of silk are individually tied to a series of sticks along the beach. Each stick is positioned upright with rocks at the base. The colour of the fabric varies from peach to white and blows in the wind like flags.
Mia + Eric investigate interspecies relationships, biodiversity, and white settler-colonial narratives in cities, small towns, and rural spaces. Their research for Remediation Room explores remediation in an urban context, at home and in their neighbourhood through the McHugh Bluff naturalization project employing goats for targeted grazing.
Images: Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis, "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow", 2017 - 2018. Photos: Courtesy the artists (left), created with Bryce Krynski (right). A botanical intervention into the Lougheed House (Calgary, Alberta) developed during a three-month urban ecology residency. Image description: a photograph of three people gardening on a sunny day. Lawn stretches behind them to the left lined with manicured gardens, bushes, and trees. One person is bending over, standing on a paved pathway. Trees obscure buildings in the far background and part of a light post can be seen on the left side of the image. An orange wheelbarrow with plants in it sits in the foreground.
Image description: A photograph of a tall, stylish fireplace in a bright room with a blue wall and hardwood floor. The fireplace is clean and empty and the mantle has a mirror reflecting part of the room. Five planters containing grasses sit in a row along the mantle.