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Oceana Masterman-Smith

A selection of works, both professional and personal

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Whaletown

Whaletown

Typography is the art and technique‘Whaletown” was created after I travelled to visit my mother on a far-flung island in...
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The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory

I named this linocut after my father’s house, which is called The Old Rectory, having once been the home of...
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Meryl McMaster | A Virtual Exhibition at Canada Gallery

Meryl McMaster | A Virtual Exhibition at Canada Gallery

With current events having regrettably forced the temporary closure of Canada Gallery, Verity Seward and I with the support from the High Commission of Canada’s Cultural Diplomacy team, have worked to bring McMaster’s exhibition alive online in the new Virtual Canada Gallery.
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Meryl McMaster at Canada House, Spring 2020

Meryl McMaster at Canada House, Spring 2020

Curated by Oceana Masterman-Smith and Verity Seward, with the support of The Baldwin Gallery, IKON Gallery and the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom, Meryl McMaster will open at Canada House, March 2020.
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The Sublunary World

The Sublunary World

'The Sublunary World' brings together the polymorphic figures of Royal Academician Tim Shaw’s Middle World with the Anthropocene skulls and Future Imperfect body-landscapes of Canadian photographer David Ellingsen and the self-portraiture of photographer Meryl McMaster.
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‘Worthy of Belief: The Mestizo Art of Carlos Zapata’

‘Worthy of Belief: The Mestizo Art of Carlos Zapata’

In 'Worthy of Belief', fetish and icon are interchangeable. ‘Worthy of belief’ is the criteria used by Catholic bishops to determine true visions from false ones, but in South America, where indigenous and slave cultures became syncretic with colonist Christianity, what is deemed worthy remains personal.
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A visit to Upaya Zen Centre

A visit to Upaya Zen Centre

Located on Cerro Gordo Road, Santa Fe, and founded by Joan Halifax Roshi, the Upaya Zen centre focuses on integration of Zen practice with social action, with traditional cultivation of wisdom and compassion in the Buddhist sense.
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Movie | The Taos Pueblo, El Santuario de Chimayó, and The San Francisco de Asís Mission Church.

Movie | The Taos Pueblo, El Santuario de Chimayó, and The San Francisco de Asís Mission Church.

Taken at The Taos Pueblo, home to the Native American Tribe of Puebloan people and one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the USA. Also footage from El Santuario de Chimayó, 40 miles south of Santa Fe which is a annual site of pilgrimage and known for it’s healing dirt — and The San Francisco de Asís Mission Church, subject of one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s most famous works.
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Women Imprinted at h Club

Women Imprinted at h Club

Featuring nine artists in various stages of their career from all around the world, 'Women Imprinted' is a dynamic exhibition celebrating colour, form and pattern.
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Mobile Forms: Parisian Abstraction to Amerindian Pop

Mobile Forms: Parisian Abstraction to Amerindian Pop

Mobile Forms: Parisian Abstraction to Amerindian Pop juxtaposes Alexandra Roussopoulos’ curvilinear shaped canvases, minimalist self-abstractions (libre et mobile formes), and skin-like geometries with the work of experimental Canadian First Nation artists
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‘Betwixt’ at The h Club

‘Betwixt’ at The h Club

The h Club presents The Baldwin Gallery’s Betwixt, exploring the organic and psychic transference between selves and species, featuring the shape-changing photography of David Ellingsen and Meryl McMaster.
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Monograph: The Mestizo Art of Carlos Zapata

Monograph: The Mestizo Art of Carlos Zapata

“When I was a child, safe in the city, other children in the countryside were being kidnapped and turned into soldiers. Their mothers would feed the army, and the army would say, ‘Your child is old enough to fight for the truth.’”
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Monograph: A Radical Mixing

Monograph: A Radical Mixing

"Assu's work is informed by a deep understanding of his heritage, radically remixing Kwakwaka’wakw iconography with western and pop aesthetics. Assu uses humour and irony to unsettle misconceptions of Indigenous peoples and expose the enduring legacies of colonization against the First People of what is now known as North America."
Mobile Forms at Blacks Club, Soho

Mobile Forms at Blacks Club, Soho

An Excerpt: 'Mobile Forms' juxtaposes Alexandra Roussopoulos’ curvilinear shaped canvases, minimalist self-abstractions (libre et mobile formes), and skin-like geometries with the work of experimental Canadian First Nation artists, Steve Smith and Sonny Assu.
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First Nations Now II: Contemporary Innovations

First Nations Now II: Contemporary Innovations

Indigenous Canadian artists, from the Northwest Pacific Coast to the Cree heartland, explore hybridity and autobiography. Traditional art practices and iconography meet remix culture, minimalism, performance art and corporeal narrative, reconstructing personal and shared identities betwixt realities and contemporising traditional stories.
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First Nations Now: Between Worlds

First Nations Now: Between Worlds

Lithographs by Robert Davidson, Haida; sculptural photography by Meryl McMaster, Plains Cree; digital interventions by Kwakwaka’wakw Sonny Assu; and panel and hide paintings by Kwakwaka’wakw Steve Smith, as well as Japanese-inspired Inuit block prints and the place-based collaborative spirit of Pacific Coast artist and designer, Sabina Hill.
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Cooking New Stories

Cooking New Stories

Cooknst (Cooking New Stories) is a platform for food-makers and eaters to share their passion by bringing together creative people in cultural exchange. Great people, great food, great music in beautiful settings.
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