♄ ABOUT ♄
Ghislan Sutherland-Timm
they/she | Tkaronto/Toronto | multidisciplinary craftsman + media researcher
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Ghislan Sutherland-Timm (they/she) is a queer multidisciplinary craftsman and media researcher based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Their creative practice is influenced by the path of reconnection to their Yurumein/Afro-Vincentian heritage and Carib roots. In this process of activation, Sutherland-Timm seeks to merge their fragmented identity alongside their English and Scottish (Clan Sutherland) ancestry in understanding fragmentations of being hosted within embodying living entities, memories, and land formations.
In duality, their work is also further ignited by the ephemerality and tactility of sound and cinema. In creating what they describe as "incomplete complete" works, Sutherland-Timm frequently utilizes collage techniques across a diverse range of mediums to shape autobiographical-fictional narratives, often centered on ambiguous beings. Through this intersection, Sutherland-Timm navigates unraveling the mythologies and romanticization of home and homecoming.
Previous works of Sutherland-Timm's has been featured at InterAccess (2024), Xpace Cultural Centre (2024), ArtSpace Gallery (2023), Images Festival (2023), PITCH Magazine Issue 4 (2023) & Issue 2 (2021), RBC Commission Career Launcher OCAD U x RBC (2022), InsideOut 2SLGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival (2022), Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) (2022), and Nia Centre for the Arts in collaboration with McMaster Museum of Art (2021).