Edmonds

Program:

Visiting Artists: Eilidh Keegan-Henry and Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam

FLEET: Edmonds
February 24 - April 7, 2025
Edmonds
Visiting Artist

FLEET: Edmonds

Edmonds Park, Intersection of Humphries Rd and Rosewood Ave

February 24 - April 7, 2025

Open House and Artist Talk: March 30th, 2025 at 1 PM

Craft Nights: Tuesday March 4th and Tuesday March 18th, 6 to 9 PM

We are excited to welcome Eilidh Keegan-Henry and Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam to FLEET: Edmonds! Keegan-Henry and Vaghari Moghaddam will be at the FLEET from February 24-April 7, 2025. During this period they will work on their project Parallel Lines. 

Parallel Lines is a textile destination roller, inspired by those used in interurban trams that operated in the lower mainland through the 1900s. The roller will be a textile project referencing the flows of people through transit lines. Parallel Lines will use the rollers to re-contextualize the paths of people and resources at both global and historical scales, as they relate to the specific context of Edmonds.

Transportation access and availability played a key role in shaping the Edmonds neighbourhood, and includes parallels between the socio-economic impacts of the development of the historical electric tramway system, and the modern Skytrain network. Keegan-Henry and Vaghari Moghaddam are interested in investigating the impacts of the availability of transportation on the distribution and organization of Edmonds as a community.

Join us for an artist talk and open house with Keegan-Henry and Moghaddam on Sunday, March 30th at 1 PM. 

Eilidh Keegan-Henry (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working on the unceded territories of the Kwikwetlem nation. Her work explores labour and materiality, often using found or recycled materials and investigating the stories they hold. Research and craft are central to her process, which often focuses on traditional manufacturing techniques. The physical record of human labour through handicraft is a commonly repeated motif.

Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam (she/her, they/them) is a long time resident of the Edmonds area, on the territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm and Sḵwxwú7mesh speaking peoples. In her time here, she has been interested in recording the structures, people, ecology, artwork, and ephemera of this neighborhood in an effort to trace the changes to the community. She is interested in the actual and conceptual marks left behind by human touch as art. She brings her background in collections and archives to her practice, taking a research-based approach to her work. She is currently inspired by questions about tactility, artifact, and society, and finds pleasure in working with materials as they respond to those questions.

Image (above): Photo of Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam (left) and Eilidh Keegan-Henry (right), photo by Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam.

Image (below, left to right):

Middlegate, Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam. Watercolour and archival ink on cold-press paper, 2016, 15 x 20 cm. Image credit: Bahar Vaghari Moghaddam.

Piecework, Eilidh Keegan-Henry (2021). Mixed textile quilt and crochet 48” x 48”. Image credit: Eilidh Keegan-Henry.