About the Artist

Rosemary Scanlon is visual artist living and working in Whitehorse, Yukon. She completed her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal, before receiving an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art.

Rosemary is a two-time recipient of both the Yukon Government Advanced Artist Award and the Yukon Government Travel Grant. She has twice received the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Grant in support of outstanding developing artists and is also the recipient of the prestigious Canada Council Explore and Create grants.

As an artist-in-residence, Rosemary has worked in conjunction with the Banff Centre, the Klondike Centre for the Arts, and MAWA - Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art. She has exhibited broadly, nationally and internationally, including shows at the Ottawa Art Gallery; Lesher Centre for the Arts, California; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; and the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.

Rosemary’s work is inspired by life and landscape in the Yukon, a place of extremes: of surreal beauty and real cold; of mythic fantasies of “The North” and mundane realities of day-to-day existence as a woman, mother, and global citizen confronting the uncertainties of a world shaped by climate change.