Budget Cuts, street view, billboard installation, AKA Gallery and Paved Arts, Saskatoon, 2012.
Budget Cuts, view from 20th Street West, billboard installation, AKA Gallery and Paved Arts, Saskatoon, 2012.
Budget Cuts, Budget Cuts makes the news in North Bay (Ontario), billboard installation, AKA Gallery and Paved Arts, Saskatoon, 2012.
Budget Cuts, accompanying folder with list of 12 organizations whose budget were cut and links to related news stories, billboard installation and exhibition, AKA Gallery and Paved Arts, Saskatoon, 2012.
Budget Cuts, print edition as record of original temporary billboard, 69.8 cm x 74.3 cm screenprint, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, 2013.
Sorry, installation view, Every Line and Every Other Line group exhibition, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, 2012
Sorry, installation detail, Every Line and Every Other Line group exhibition, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, 2012
(left) Mask series by Arthur Renwick, (right) Sorry by Cathy Busby, installation view, Every Line and Every Other Line group exhibition, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, 2012
Budget Cuts (2012)
BUDGET CUTS, AKA Gallery and Paved Arts, Saskatoon, 2012 is a continuation of my work, We Are Sorry. For the billboard, I compiled a list of Aboriginal organizations whose budgets had been severely cut since the federal government’s 2008 apology for the Indian Residential School system. It was installed in a high-density Aboriginal neighbourhood in Saskatoon. The colours used match those immediately surrounding the site: for example, yellow of the pavement marking line on the street, pink and red of the attached building and aqua of the AKA Gallery sign.
The group exhibition Every Line & Every Other Line originally took place in 2011, at the Platform Center for photographic and digital arts in Winnipeg, then travelled to AKA Gallery and Paved Arts in 2012. My Sorry mouths travelled with the show and BUDGET CUTS (2012) was added to the exhibition as a site specific installation in Saskatoon.