Resident Artists
ALISA McRONALD
Alisa McRonald is a textile artist, transforming discarded clothing into yarn and breathing life into every remnant of fabric and fibre. She weaves, sews, and punch-needles threads into whimsical, abstract, and deeply personal sculptural characters. Through craft and reclamation, she invites viewers into a world where the ordinary becomes enchanted and personal stories unfold.
During the residency, Alisa is creating a series of sculptural textile dolls—assemblages that blur the line between sculpture, storytelling, and play. Inspired by hauntings, kitsch, trolls, fairytales, and fairies, these works also echo the handmade playsets, flip dolls, and puppets that shaped her childhood imagination, transforming nostalgic forms into contemporary reflections on craft, memory, and the fantastical.
BRANDY RYAN
Brandy Ryan is a collage artist whose practice is fully analogue, using found images, textures, and objects in new contexts. She works on paper—Canson and watercolour, mainly—but has begun exploring other backgrounds and foundations: thrifted canvases, pieces of stone or wood, other décor or objects. The common thread in her work is relational—between the concrete (humans, animals, objects) and the abstract (myth, memory, representation).
During the residency, Brandy is working on a new series on the relationship between humans and hotels. These rooms become a temporary “home” and yet are always innately unfamiliar, even uncanny. She’ll directly and indirectly collaborate with hotel guests via the studio open-door policy, and by collecting conversations and ephemera (they no longer need) as they leave Gladstone House: papers, bits of fabric or materials, small objects—all assets to include in this new work.
JORDAN DUNLOP
Jordan Dunlop’s recent paintings explore gestural abstraction based on unconventional mark making, both intentional as well as by chance and error. Jordan paints on reclaimed plexi-glass saved from scrap bins found throughout the city. Painting on plexi-glass provides a window to the other side and what is normally kept unseen. Surface tension built up from the push and pull underneath the paint surface creates fractal patterns, uneven blending resembling nebulous clouds of colour when revealed on the opposing side.
During the residency, Jordan is developing new work responding to our changing urban environments, and the safe havens we call home. Home and homelessness is an intentional message to be explored in expressive and representational methods using found objects, mylar and plexi-glass.
