Cultural X is an annual showcase Trent University’s Cultural Studies Undergraduate Art Exhibition. The students students in studio courses are invited to submit their work for the prestigious the Gregory R. Frith Memorial Prize. This exhibition showcase some of the work submitted for this award. Their body of work crosses disciplines, mediums, and theoretical approaches, questioning and problematizing digitality, the body, identity, movement, nature, language, place, family, and the ontology of art in an age of contagion, war, and isolation. These artworks were created in a handful of courses encompassing our integrated arts platform: CUST1510H: Integrated Arts, CUST2114H: Ecological Art, CUST2186H: Photography, CUST3111Y: Visual Arts Studio, CUST3142H: Experimental Film, CUST3143H: Electronic Music, CUST3184H: Documentary Film, CUST3186H: Experimental Film, and CUST4136H: Computational Arts.
Participating artists included:
Jinian Raine Harwig, Vassive, 2022 (Prize Winner)
Janeen Peckform, Penetralia, 2022
Alexandra Martell, Draw the Line, 2022
Drew Dafoe, Fever Weekend, 16mm, 2022
Tyrell Williams, Light box, 2022
Mridul Harbhajanka, It’s you I like, 2022 (Honourable Mention)
Katerina Darby, REVOLT. SUBMIT. CREATE. REPEAT., 2022
Makeda Davis, What Do You Think When I Say?, 2022
Aditi Sharma, Habitat, 2022
Lindsay Olivieri, Hidden in Hand, 2022 (Honourable Mention)
Oliver Matthews-Hanna, Circulating Images, 2022
Katy Catchpole, Lapse, 2022 (Honourable Mention)
Anthony McKay, Untitled, 2022