Photo by Kevin Garner
BIO
Camille Cannell grew up in Austin, TX, attended the Maryland Institute College of Art from 2013-2017, graduated with a BFA in Fiber Art in 2017, and then returned to Austin in 2018.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I’m currently building a new body of work which is focused on material “end-of-life”. I primarily create textiles, drawings, photographs, and installations. An ongoing investigation into cross disciplinary ways of image-making is always a part of my process.
I am constructing a new world, made out of waste, scraps, and trash. Using this free and unending source of materials to build my textile’s structures, I realize a practice with a new and perpetual abundance. Using waste materials allows me to transfigure trash’s association with shame and invisibility into a gentle, child-like curiosity and exploration. This body of work is beginning with an iteration of textile samples. I’m developing ways to physically assemble waste from a variety of categories like small fabric scraps, discarded clothing, and plastic packaging.
This body of work is marking a large turn in my creative practice; towards developing my past, occasional and investigational use of piece-worked waste materials into a formal reliance on waste as my main medium; towards forming my drawing and image-making into an established visual language within this new material framework; and towards the evolution of a new aesthetic value system.