Education
Degree held: Master of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (2016)
Degree held: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University (2013)
Diploma held: Fibre Arts, Kootenay School of the Arts (2008)
Solo & Duo Exhibitions
Gathering / Tethering – in collaboration with Ursula Handleigh, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YK (2021)
structures of loss (traces & threads) – The Growlery, San Francisco, CA (2018)
Tinctorial Cartographies: Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS (2016)
Group Exhibitions
so we are to the land – CityScape Community ArtSpace, North Vancouver, BC (2024)
Craft and Science – Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton & Calgary, AB (2022)
Fabrications in*Materiality – Bothkinds Project Space, Vancouver, BC (2022)
Adult Adjacent Practices – Duplex Artist Society, Vancouver, BC (2022)
Plant Kingdom – Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS (2022)
Local Threads – retrospective of the EartHand Gleaners Society’s work: Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC (2018)
The Space – Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC (2018)
World of Threads Festival – Oakville, ON (2018)
Bonnie McComb Kreye Residency Exhibition: Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, BC (2018)
Landscape Unbound: Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, BC (2017)
The Thing Is – MFA Group Show: Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS (2015)
Progress in Work (Work in Progress) – MFA Group Show: Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS (2014)
6°: Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2013)
The Show: Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC (2013)
Land, City, Space and Sea: Muir Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2013)
Memory and Speculation: Muir Gallery, Courtenay, BC (2013)
Residencies
EartHand Gleaners Society, Vancouver, BC (2022 & 2023)
coFood Vancouver Garden, Vancouver, BC (2021)
Artists in Communities – Strathcona Community Centre, lead artist in collaboration with Rebecca Graham and the EartHand Gleaners Society, Vancouver, BC (2019)
The Growlery, San Francisco, CA (2018)
Bonnie McComb Kreye Residency, Victoria, BC (2017)
Banff Centre, Banff, AB (2017)
Wild Islands Field Station, West Quoddy Bay, NS (2015)
Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, YT (2012)
Presentations & Lectures
Visiting Lecturer: “Sustainable Photography” lecture series, OCAD University, Toronto, ON (2023)
Visiting Lecturer: “Professional Practices”, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC (2023)
Artist Talk: “Gathering | Tethering” – with Ursula Handleigh, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YK (2021)
Cultural & Climate Grief, in conversation with Liz Toohey-Wiese, ODD Gallery, YT (2021)
Parental Grief, in conversation with Jennifer Long, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YT (2021)
Loss & Grief, in conversation with Frances Dorsey, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YT (2021)
Lecturer – Maiwa School of Textiles, Vancouver, BC (2019)
Presenter – "The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global", Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium (2018)
Presenter – "Cloth Cultures: Future Legacies of Dorothy K. Burnham", Royal Ontario Museum (2017)
Panelist – "Craft and Wilderness: Combatting Territorial Amnesia", Canadian Craft Biennial (2017)
Artist Talk – Greater Vancouver Spinners’ & Handweavers’ Guild (2017)
Artist Talk – Vancouver Island School of Art (2017)
Artist Talk: Tinctorial Cartographies – Anna Leonowens Gallery (2016)
Artist Talk – Textile Department, NSCAD University (2015)
Artist Talk: The Thing Is – Anna Leonowens Gallery (2015)
Second-Year Graduate Presentation – NSCAD University (2015)
First-Year Graduate Presentation – NSCAD University (2014)
Artist Talk: Progress in Work (Work in Progress) – Anna Leonowens Gallery (2014)
Guest Lecture – “Intermediate Dye & Print” (Textile Department), NSCAD University (2014)
Awards & Grants
Research & Creation Grant: Canada Council for the Arts (2023)
Arts Abroad Grant: Canada Council for the Arts (2019)
Brenda & Jamie Mackie Fellowship for Visual Arts: Banff Centre (2017)
Graduate Research Scholarship: Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (2015)
Board of Governors Cultural Research Grant: Nova Scotia Museum (2015)
Harrison McCain Graduate Scholarship: Harrison McCain Foundation (2014 – 2016)
MFA Scholarship: NSCAD University (2015)
MFA Scholarship: NSCAD University (2014)
Collections
Toronto - Dominion Bank
Kootenay School of the Arts
Private collections
Publications
Forthcoming “Tinctorial Cartographies”, Colour: Encyclopedia of World Textiles, Bloomsbury Publishing.
2022 “Gathering | Tethering”, in collaboration with Ursula Handleigh and Meg Walker
2019 “Tinctorial Cartographies: Plant, Dye & Place”, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
"The Artists are Present", Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, InStudio magazine (Fall/Winter 2017)
"10 Artists Who Are Reinventing History", by Amanda Shore, Canadian Art magazine (Fall 2017)
“Given Time: Notes on Dimensional Poetry”, with Karin Cope and Ryan Josey, C magazine, (Spring 2016)
Graduation Exhibition Catalogue - NSCAD University (2016)
The Show: Graduation Exhibition Catalogue - Emily Carr University (2013)
Anna Heywood-Jones is a visual artist and educator based in the traditional, contemporary and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations, colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. Her artistic practice is focused on building regional lexicons of colour and exploring the complex relationship between human and botanical spheres. Through her work, Heywood-Jones strives to convey notions of slow loss and transformation, examining the metamorphic nature of human and vegetal expressions of existence.
Contact: annaheywoodjones@gmail.com