Maggie Groat

Maggie Groat is a visual artist who makes images and objects from found and salvaged materials. Her work considers the utility of images and the transformative, ritual potential of reuse while living in times of climate emergency. Her methodologies are informed by states of becoming, intuition, seasonal cycles, acts of care, site responsiveness, decolonization, strategies of collage and hopeful speculation. Many of Groat’s recent projects engage with domestic or public spaces through considering research-based, deep-time approaches to working site-specifically. She carries many of the interests woven throughout her arts practice into her roles as arts educator and birth worker. She is an off-nation member of the Six Nations of the Grand River and currently lives with partner and three children in the Niagara region of Ontario, the traditional territory of the Chonnonton, Anishinaabeg and Hodinöhsö:ni’.