Artist

Country:  Canada
City:  London,

Ellen Moffat is a sound artist whose installation and performance projects construct sensorial environments as sonic becomings. These works employ assorted materials, objects, and methods for sound generation and amplification in diverse sites and situations. Her exploration of sound and space and materials as soundings uses a process of finding as embodied knowing. Her practice includes solo, collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. Her work has been presented in galleries, festivals, and off-site events across Canada including Remai Modern, Western Front, Gallery 44, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery, and internationally in Utopia Station (Venice Biennale), Kentler Gallery (Brooklyn), and Gallery 12-14 Schleifmuhlgasse Contemporary (Vienna). Moffat holds a BA in Anthropology from U of Toronto, a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia, an MFA in Sculpture from University of Regina, and a PhD in Art and Visual Culture from Western University. Her doctoral thesis, Strings of Sound and Sense: Toward a Feminine Sonic, explored sound art as sense and nonsense and as relations of listening and hearing with attention to Canadian women sound artists. She currently lives in London, Ont.