Jess Portfleet
Contact
- Instructor of Art, Visual and Performing Arts
- MFA, Emily Carr School of Art and Design
Biography
Jess Portfleet is a Vancouver-based artist utilizing her sculptural practice to investigate and rewire the structures people build with and for, things. By casting, displacing, repurposing and collecting, she creates arrangements that question social concepts of control, investment, value and identity as they move through perceived connections with (and between) things. Portfleet reinterprets objects through exhibition strategies centered around staging and play. Using space and place as scaffolding, and props that provide alternative modes of support; these objects explore and articulate complex human moments.
Portfleet received her MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2018. She is a sessional instructor in sculpture and ceramics at Michigan Technological University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Emily Carr University. She currently lives and works in the DTES of Vancouver, BC where she enjoys shopping for lost objects, found furniture and industrial salvage.