April Hickox

April Hickox is a lens-based artist, teacher and independent curator who lives on the Toronto Islands. Over the course of over 35 years, she has made images that reflect the natural world, through which I hope to transport the viewer to a place they may have been and is perhaps familiar. Through lens-based explorations of site and place, she investigate collective histories embedded in the landscape. Observe tracts of land that have escaped development, or areas that are in the process of natural regeneration. "My work questions what is “wild” and how we are renegotiating our relationship with wilderness and our environment" Hickox observes the pockets of green spaces more specifically focusing on the Carolinian forest areas. Some of these areas include the Toronto Islands, Handcock Woodlands in Mississauga and Point Pelee a national park in southern Ontario. she visited these sites regularly, observed and photographing the changes that have taken place in the park, and documented the overlapping layers of human and natural histories. April has mined the distinctions between personal and public sites through film, video, photography and installation.

Currently her work includes a studio practice using the still lives traditions. Provenance Unknown is rooted in narrative histories that individuals accumulate throughout their lives and the ability of inanimate objects to shape memory. Provenance Unknown, and Variations employ the use of stills and video works exploring the studio still life.
Her work can be found in numerous public and privet Canadian Collections has been gratefully supported by all levels of funding throughout her career and has exhibited nationally and internationally.