Damien Worth is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in rural Prince Edward Island/ Epekwitk . Worth graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2011, and interest in experimental approaches to art production are focused in the media of painting , new media, video, and installation. His work aims to explore the spaces that exist between worlds. Worth is interested in the thresholds occurring between wild and the cultivated sites, reality and fiction, and the perils of certainty.
He has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in national and international venues and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Worth has his work held in various private and public collections including the Confederation Centre Art Gallery permanent collection(PE), University of New Brunswick Art Centre permanent collection (NB), The Rooms provincial art bank (NL), The Prince Edward Island art bank (PE), and Global Affairs Art collection for embassies and consulate offices.
“I am interested in the concepts surrounding our relationship with both natural and manufactured spaces. My visual art practice employs unconventional processes of world-building as a means to investigate the tensions inherent in the spaces we inhabit. My work has been rooted in confronting the complicated tradition of landscape as art subject and has evolved to include video and new media practices that mesh hand made approaches with digital techniques. My work takes liberties with landscape as terminology. This includes referencing political, economic, social, and media landscapes.” - Damien Worth
