Bio

Tracy Peters is a Winnipeg-based multidisciplinary artist who uses video, photography and installation to examine the interactions between organic and human-built environments. In her site-responsive studio practice, she is deeply motivated by resilient behavior in ecosystems that enable their adaptation to human intervention. Peters has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council, and has attended residencies that include a partnership between Void Gallery and the Social Studios and Gallery in Derry, Northern Ireland, the ArtCenter/South Florida-MAWA artist exchange program in Miami, Florida, the Plug In ICA Summer Institute in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. In 2018, she participated in the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in Mount Forest, Ontario. Her work has exhibited across Canada, in Europe and Australia.

Works

Disturbance

  • 2014
  • Tracy Peters

Disturbance is a multi-sensory video that places the viewer inside of an abandoned grain shed on a windy day.

Disturbance

Dam'd

  • 2021
  • Tracy Peters

Invasive behaviours accumulate on the surface of water bodies and on the film itself.

Dam'd

Fevered

  • 2021
  • Tracy Peters

Water bodies grow restless as they awaken from winter’s deep freeze.

Fevered

Shifting Baseline

  • 2021
  • Tracy Peters

Degraded by toxic lake water, 16mm film moves through time as an everchanging landscape.

Shifting Baseline

CHOKE

  • 2018
  • Tracy Peters

CHOKE examines the lack of oxygen in aquatic ecosystems as algae blooms emerge during spring thaw.

CHOKE

Shallow Deep

  • 2016
  • Tracy Peters

Shallow Deep is a visceral exploration of emotive landscapes, in which Peters alters her breathing to correspond with the fluctuating water levels of a stone beach.

Shallow Deep by Tracy Peters

Forest Floor

  • 2014
  • Tracy Peters

In Forest Floor, Tracy Peters cuts a photographic print into shreds as she contemplates a decomposing forest floor.

Forest Floor

HIVE

  • 2013
  • Tracy Peters

HIVE is a playful computer animation that blurs the boundaries between insect and human habitats as honeycomb structures turn into a city of tall buildings at night.

HIVE

Layers

  • 2012
  • Tracy Peters

In Layers, Tracy Peters overlaps video and sound recordings of threatened barn swallows that occupy a farm shed slated for demolition.

Layers