Genevieve Robertson's drawing-based interdisciplinary practice explores the material around the body and under the feet: water, rock, wind, silt, flora, fauna and mineral. Her drawings map a visceral engagement with place and often occupy the edge: the interstice between micro and macro, plant and animal, biology and geology, territory and weather pattern, tenacity and fragility. Prensently, she is interested in rivers as both biological and economic thoroughfares and forces with agency beyond their role as resources. Through research on the Fraser, Athabasca and Columbia rivers she has engaged with the complexities that are at stake when relating to land and water in the age of the Anthroposcene and in the context of colonialism.
Genevieve's work is informed by an intergenerational history of resource labour on the coast of British Columbia. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University and an MAA from Emily Carr University.
