Erin Jaeger-Freeborn

 

Erin is an artist living and working in Halifax, NS.  She recieved her Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University.  She works mainly in sculpture and installation using a wide variety of materials and techniques.  

 

Her work involves themes of isolation, otherness, seclusion and community building. The scale and material of the work fluctuates with each piece. The work often examines personal rituals and how the details, intricacies and the rhythm of an individual’s rituals can begin to define them.

 

The work invites the audience to admire it but also poses questions of invasiveness, often provoking uncomfortable responses. It pushes the audience to question their own comfort with knowing the intimacies of another’s routine, secrets and domestic setting. Knowing what is in another person’s pockets or to peer at their domestic space through a peephole forces the audience to consider the appropriateness of what is being revealed to them. Erin is interested in examining the rituals of outsider groups.; revealing not only the seclusion and isolation that these groups can endure but also the peaceful practices they have.

 

At times Erin's work is small and delicate with intricate details other times is is large intrusive but is always has a sense of narative.