Vanessa Brown works in sculpture and installation, primarily using steel. She is interested in challenging steel’s associations with industry and monument, by focusing on its subtler qualities such as its versatility and slightness. Her work explores various ideas around craft, feminized labour, gestures of comfort, ideas of escape, and liminal spaces such as holes and dreams. She has exhibited in Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, the USA, and Mexico, with solo and twoperson exhibitions at The Esker Foundation, Calgary; Patel Brown, Toronto; Projet Pangee, Montreal; The Western Front, Vancouver; The Armory Show, New York; and group exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Fellner Louvigny, Luxembourg; and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.