Lacey Decker Hawthorne is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, textiles, writing, and research. Her current practice explores invisible, embodied labour in the materials and architecture of domestic spaces, and caregiving as a site of praxis. She earned her BA (Hons) from Memorial University of Newfoundland and her MA at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She studied letterpress printing at the Bodleian Library, and copper-plate etching at East London Printmakers in the UK, the Crown Point Press in San Francisco, and Ground Zero Printmakers in Victoria, BC. She has participated in residencies in North Wales and Canada, and curated a printmaking exhibit exploring mapping and alternative geographies at the Fifty Fifty Gallery in Victoria, BC. She has also published and presented creative research on narrative medicine. Her work has been shown in Canada, the UK, Japan and France, and supported with funding from the New Brunswick Arts Board and the Canada Council for the Arts. She currently lives and works in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, on the unceded ancestral lands of the Mi’kmaq peoples.
Selected recent media
Short profile of Scribbler on Dave Dyment’s blog, Artist’s Books and Multiples
“The Weight of Words,” Lacey Decker Hawthorne, CreatedHere magazine, Issue 17, September 2021
Audio artist talk, THIRD SHIFT 2021, Saint John, NB
Prints exhibited at Silex Ink, Genech, France
“Seeking Shelters: Lacey Decker Hawthorne” by Geordie Miller, Visual Arts News, Spring 2020
Interview with Monica Liu, Victoria Arts Council, March 2020
“Art as an Ark” by Shannon Webb-Campbell, Canadian Art, August 2019