PETRA HÖLLER

Painting, Works on Paper, Fibre Arts, Poetry

City: Summerland, British Columbia

Website: http://www.petraholler.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/petrahollerart

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/petra.holler

Artist Statement: Petra Höller is an artist, poet and arts facilitator whose practice incorporates a range of media, including painting, drawing, bookmaking and fibre arts. Petra is obsessed with everyday archives - such as family photographs, vintage magazines and thrift store objects - and the stories that they tell about life, labour and belonging in so-called British Columbia. These serve as reference material which Petra re-presents through laborious and gestural mark-making processes. The results are often off-kilter, playful and charged with an uneasy humour.

Biography: Petra Höller (b. 1992, Penticton) was raised in rural Summerland, BC on the unceded lands of the Syilx/Okanagan Nation. After graduating from high school, they lived up and down the Okanagan Valley before moving to Tiohtià:ke/Montréal to attend Concordia University's Fine Arts program with a major in Art History and Studio Arts. In 2020 Petra graduated magna cum laude and moved back to their hometown of Summerland to reconnect with their family roots and further their research into Okanagan history. Petra has exhibited and curated in British Columbia and Québec and has work in private collections across Canada and in Europe.