Welcome to STUDIO TO STUDIO. An interview series where artists answer questions about their practice and give an art assignment to get us thinking and working creatively. Link in bio to interview.

Episode 15 is with artist Fiona Ackerman. In this interview, Fiona discusses a shift in her creative process after an unexpected meeting with a lizard last summer and how it changed the direction of her work. She discusses how our five senses are advantageous and limiting in artmaking and how her approach to making music comes from the gut. Her current exhibition Lizard Brains at Gallery Jones, in Vancouver, opens Feb 26 and runs until March 26.

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Originally from Montreal, Fiona Ackerman is a Vancouver painter whose work is exhibited and collected internationally. In addition to her studio practice, she has created large-scale public murals in Vancouver as well as several video and music projects including a 10-minute projection for 2017 Burrard Arts Foundation/ Facade Festival. She works primarily in series: in 2021, her exhibition The Cosmic Tiger at Gallery Kremers Berlin explored metamorphosis and included an accompanying collaborative video piece. Later that year, her show at Oeno Gallery in Ontario was a modern look at botanical history. Her current exhibition Lizard Brains at Gallery Jones, Vancouver is a series of abstract paintings, accompanied by a short story by the same title. It runs from Feb 26 - March 26.