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Libby Hague
Libby Hague is an artist who grew up in a family of artists and scientists although they never realized it. Instead, her family called it "trying out something new", "just puttering around" and "going down to the basement". She was lucky enough to be gratified by the process early on and selfish enough to do it all the time.
She lives in Toronto, Ontario and studied fine art at Concordia (then SGWU) in Montreal. Her recent solo exhibitions include Sympathetic Connections at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2011; We were young and still believed in heaven, Galerie Circuaire, Montreal, 2010; tiens-moi très fort, La Centrale, Montreal, 2010; being natural at the Durham Art Gallery, 2010 and One step at a time at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2009.
She has recently shown internationally in the 6th Novosibirsk International Biennial of Contemporary Graphic Art, Siberia, Russia, 2009; L’Arte e il Torchio International Biennial, Cremona, Italy 2011; the International Paper Art Exhibition and Symposium, Chung Shan National Gallery, Taiwan, 2011; Miner for a heart, curated by Yael Brotman for Impact 7, Melbourne, Australia, 2011; IPCNY's autumn exhibition, NY, 2011 traveling to Austin, Texas in January, 2012.
She was one of the artists featured in the British book, Installations & Experimental Printmaking by Alexia Tala and won the 2009 Open Studio National Printmaking Award. Her upcoming activities in early 2012 include a group show in Montreal, Collier de Macaronis pour Maman, curated by Cybèle Pilon; a solo show at YYZ and a residency in Ireland with Yael Brotman.
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“My print installations are variants of disaster, extinction and rescue themes, examining our sense of responsibility, our cruelty and our courage. It looks at life in this precarious world and finds in individual actions “good examples" that we can try to follow. My point of view is secular and I use narrative to puzzle out how, without an external guiding code, we can determine and maintain humane social relationships.”