About
I'm Theresa Slater (she/they), a neuroqueer artist residing in tkaranto as a white settler, passionate about painting, writing, arts administration, and currently pursuing studies in art therapy. My commitment lies in perceptual experimentation, media exploration, and self-expression. My artistic practice navigates the realms of psychedelic aesthetics, employing fluid media, intricate hyperbolic frameworks, and immersive compositions to explore themes of transcendence, consciousness, and the evolving narrative of being. My process-oriented creative approach addresses themes of neurodivergence, trauma, nihilism, and mystical experiences, drawing inspiration from acid wave and cyberdelic movements while considering the post-painterly abstraction of the 1960s.
As an MA graduate of OCAD U in Contemporary Art, Design, and New Media Art Histories (2016), my critical focus centered on technology and feminism. My MA thesis, "Sensual Alterity of Digital Objects" (2016), delved into the ethical and ontological properties of digital objects. I co-authored a book chapter in "Critical Digital Making in Art Education" (Peter Lang Publishing, 2020). My academic journey includes a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Applied Ethics from UVIC, BC (2013), and earlier studies in mixed media, craft, and design at the Kootenay School of the Arts (Nelson, BC, 2003).
In my current artistic pursuits, I am fascinated by psychedelic and experimental aesthetics, new materialism, popular science, Christian decolonization, and my path towards becoming an art therapist.