Artist Statement

I am a Nova Scotia based visual artist and for many years I worked mainly with black and white photographs to which l added mixed media surface techniques.
In the last few years l have mainly concentrated on mixed media without the black and white photos using stitching, embroidery, and other hand done work that requires time and patience.
I work with themes of love and memory, hope and loss. I am interested in making the invisible visible, not just as art, but by giving importance to stories that would otherwise be lost and forgotten.
I also have worked with cloth dolls for many years, incorporating them into stop motion.

Biography

Ken Flett can best be described as a bricoleur. A “bricoleur” is a kind of handyman who enjoys adroitly drawing upon all sorts of everyday things – whatever is at hand – to attend to those things that make the good life. A graduate of the Alberta College of Art with a major in photographic arts, Ken has exhibited extensively across British Columbia and other locations including Prague and the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse. He has participated in a residency in Mexico City and a winter residency on a cattle farm in Rolla, BC. Ken was a mentor at the BC Festival of the Arts and was invited to the 2004 and 2010 Children’s Art Festival in Singapore where he introduced 3 dimensional art to hundreds of young people. Ken has inspired other artists by generously sharing his knowledge and technical expertise in workshops, artist talks and multi-media presentations as well as curating many community shows in Bear River,NS.