Carolyn Mallory grew up in northern Ontario, raised her own three children in Nunavut, and has always considered herself a northern girl. She loves snow, animals, the tundra, wildflowers, reading, writing, and painting. She is the co-author of Common Plants of Nunavut and the author of Common Insects of Nunavut. She now lives in Nova Scotia with her dogs, cats, lizard, gerbils, frogs, fish, and a house-pig named Stella.
Merle Harley works slowly, continuously creates, and builds visual alternate realities. A chaos creature with too many projects and no fixed medium they create with anything readily available. Merle has done projects involving drawing, knitting, weaving, comic books, videos and built structures. Who knows what they will do next. They have exhibited work across Canada and beyond with an ongoing dedication to their artistic practice. Merle has extensive experience facilitating workshops and coordinating community art programs for organizations such as Art Bikers, Wonder’neath Open Studio, Jumblies Theatre and Shadowland Theatre. Catch them on the shoreline as they zip back and forth between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Ontario.
