Media Arts Production Fund | Sage Sidley

May 27 - June 10

We are so excited to welcome our first 2025 Media Arts Production Fund artist, Sage Sidley, who will be working at Struts from May 27 to June 10. Sage Sidley (she/her) is a white settler originally from Kmarkn territory of the Sinixt People (Rossland, BC) and currently residing in K'jipuktuk (Halifax, NS). She earned a MFA in Fine and Media Arts from NSCAD University (2020) and a BFA from UBC Okanagan (2016). She has held solo and group exhibitions in numerous public galleries throughout Canada. In 2023 her work was exhibited in solo shows at the Vernon Public Art Gallery and Ubisoft Halifax. She has attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Berlin Art Institute, NYU ITP Camp, Inverness County for the Arts and the Blue Building Gallery NS. In support of her practice, Sidley has been awarded funding from the Canada Council, the Nova Scotia Arts Council, the Judith Jane Leidl Graduate Fellowship, and the Renznick Family Fund. She is currently a Regular Part-time Faculty member at NSCAD University.

Sage's project. Parallel Circuits, will visualize how we simultaneously move through environments and interfaces, and how they coexist and shape one another. Inspired by paper dioramas and shadow boxes, Parallel Circuits will be a series of three electronic sculptures that explore the intricate web of ecological and technological systems. The cases will utilize microcontrollers, environmental sensors, solar panels, drawings, and small sculptural objects to illustrate how these systems overlap, collide, and blur. These intersections serve as a tool to dismantle the colonial ideology of ‘nature’ (our environment) being separate from humans and technology. Contrarily, when navigating through space, we are connected to multiple imperceptible systems, from data-collection tracked by our personal devices to micro and macro ecosystems. Viewers will be able to look through and around multiple planes of paper and acrylic, obstructed by wires, and blinking lights.

Sage will be working in Gallery 3 and welcomes visitors from 10AM to 5PM, Tuesday to Friday.