Tricia Enns

A designer, educator and artist. I have a Masters degree in Design + Computational Arts (Concordia University; 2023) and an Undergraduate degree in Applied Science, Systems Design Engineering (University of Waterloo; 2010). My past life as an engineer now informs my systems approach to exploring and understanding public space. My practice is grounded in relational and material approaches and uses a variety of low and high tech methods to come together with others to play, share stories, and create.

Design Work

WEBSITES:

I work closely with clients to create websites that reflect their practice, organization, or project’s personality, goals, and approach. The websites I create rely heavily on bold colour schemes, playful illustrations (created using Adobe) and intuitive UX (prototyped using Figma). I use platforms such as WordPress, Cargo, and Squarespace to build websites, with custom html and css where necessary. I incorporate accessible practices in my website designs, and am always improving and developing my skills and knowledge as the industry evolves.

At the end of a project, I guide the client through the back-end, so that they can update the website themselves where possible and to the extent they wish. I also offer maintenance and content management services to support clients with future updates, addition of content, etc.

Please see examples of websites I have worked on to the right. These examples include websites I created from scratch, websites I managed and made updates to, and websites I worked on with a team. I generally work with artists, community organizations or companies with environmental and social justice ethics.

Contact me with any questions and to get a quote for your own website needs!

Victoria Stanton

type: artist site
hosted on: WordPress
created: 2023
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Learning with the St Lawrence

type: research-creation project
hosted on: WordPress
created: 2022
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Re-Imagine (Art Ed. Research Chair Website)

type: academic / research website
hosted on: WordPress
worked on: 2020 – present
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Artist Website of Kathleen Vaughan

type: artist website
hosted on: WordPress
worked on: 2020 – present
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Materials and Materiality Research Chair

type: academic website
hosted on: Cargo
created: 2022
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Fred Wah Digital
Archive

type: poet’s digital archive
hosted on: Drupal
created + worked on: 2022 – 2023
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inArte Journal

type: student art journal website
hosted on: WordPress
updated: 2020 – 2023
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Metro Intimacy

type: art project
hosted on: WordPress
created: 2020
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POSTERS/LOGOS/
OTHER:

I help clients create informative posters and logos that effectively convey their company, project, etc.. My goal is to use design approaches (using Adobe) to translate large (perhaps complex) ideas and concepts into comprehensible visuals.

Please see examples of client work to the right, and more personal design work below within the creative practice section.

Contact me with any questions and to get a quote for your own website needs!

logo for the Creative Tech Oddballs Open Mic, Montreal based community artist group (2023)

logo for performance artist Victoria Stanton (2023)

poster to promote five research events as part of Kathleen Vaughan’s project The Future is Wool

Teaching

WORKSHOPS:

I have been facilitating workshops since 2012. I lead group workshops that explore our relationship to public space, play, walking, and paper making. I have facilitated workshops at conferences, symposiums, research centres, and independently in parks, studios, and shared environments. I believe some of the most impactful learning experiences come from creating and exploring together.

Currently I teach workshops through the Point St. Charles Art School, and you can check my instagram for other upcoming workshops and events.

See photos from past workshops below.

Photos below are from the debris mapping workshops I offer (which began as part of my Master’s research-creation project). These workshops incorporate walking, debris, storytelling and paper-making to create counter maps and better understand the complexity of specific places.

Contact me to BOOK A WORKSHOP (debris mapping or otherwise)!

Participant helping with the creation of a large debris mapping of the Entrepot77 site in Montreal as part of a durational, participatory performance. Photo credit: Lee Wilkins.

Chatting with participants as we collect debris and share stories and thoughts about Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, during a workshop co-facilitated with Andrew Lochhead. Photo credit: Andrew Lochhead.

Guiding individual through the process of paper making and creating a debris map within my studio during an open access workshop. Photo credit: Lee Wilkins.

Guiding a participant through the process of making paper at 4th Space, Concordia University, Montreal as part of in.situ Symposium (2022). Photo credit: Amanda Gutierrez.

Creating debris mappings in Place de la Paix, Montreal, as part of workshop funded by Hexagram (2022). Photo credit: Christine White.

Sharing practice at workshop in Champ des Possibles, Montreal (2022). Photo credit: Drea.

ACADEMIC COURSES:

With a Master’s in Design + Computational Arts (Faculty of Arts) I have assisted in teaching 6 courses at Concordia University, these courses included:

— 2023 Winter CART 263A Javascript Object Oriented Code, assisted L. Wilkins (Montreal, QC)

— 2023 Winter CART 263B Javascript Object Oriented Code, assisted L. Wilkins (Montreal, QC)

— 2023 Winter FFAR 298 Art and the Anthropocene, assisted Stefan Jovanovic (Montreal, QC)

— 2022 Fall FFAR 298 The City After Dark, assisted Stefan Jovanovic (Montreal, QC)

— 2021 Fall FFAR 298 The City After Dark, assisted Karen Herland (Remote)

— 2020 Fall Dart493 Post Graduate Strategies in Design, assisted M. Andraos (Remote)

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Creative Practice

— “its hard to be simple when you’re complex“

My practice primarily incorporates paper making, illustration, mapping, zine making, performance art and more. Often, it also incorporates debris, garbage, electronics, audiowalks, soundscapes, and video production.

I work with a group of international artists called [per]mission to Play to organize, facilitate and perform interactive and critical walks, create alternative maps, and playfully connect with different urban spaces. Our work has been featured at the Fringe Arts Bath Festival, and we have been funding by the 4 Nations Fund (Scotland Arts Council).

I use the creative process to explore topics of interconnection, spatial storying, and play. I process emotions and feelings through illustration and explore the overlooked and neglected pathways through public spaces using art.

Click on images below with pink borders to learn more about current and past creative projects.

Projects open to your financial support (i.e. zines, paper, comics, etc.) through purchasing or patron are indicated with $ symbols.

$ – go shopping!

Vent Mapping: ongoing project, began as part of Oxygen Center’s Desire Lines Program (2022 – present). Click to view entire project.
Fly Away – original collage using found images and handmade paper (2022). $125 – sold framed. Click to go to the shop!
Audiowalk Narratives of the Quartier des Spectacles is a guided sensory, historical and memorial reflection on a specific neighbourhood in Montreal.
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One of several pieces of paper created with the local flora during a Design Inquiry residency on the island of Vinalhaven, Maine. The work incorporated words signally for a slowing down while beckoning the busyness of ants with drizzles of maple syrup (2023).
Let’s take a Walk is a zine originally made as a tool to foster adventure and curiosity on walks during the pandemic. Presented at the Bike, Walk Place Conference (2020). Click to go to the shop!
Pulpy Circuits is a project which combined pulp with debris and soft electronics, funded by Milieux’s research-creation grant, to use sensors and electronic feedback to attune to the affective nature of the debris (2021). Exhibited at Milieux’s In the Middle a Chimera exhibition (2022). Photo credit: Roxanne Ross.
Narrative Debris: Illustrated map produced as part of master’s thesis research (2020 – 2023). Click to view more research results.
Performance art work about finding peace with my ancestors and the challenges and gifts I have received from them (2022). Photo credit: Roxanne Ross.
Narrative Debris: large debris map created from collected debris out of the Saint Laurent Metro (Montreal) as part of master’s thesis research (2020 – 2023). Click to view more research results.
Spread in the community published alternative agenda which encourages a more dispersive approach to education and knowledge sharing. In this vein, the spread I published is a tool for readers to document their sensory experience and discoveries during a walk in Montreal (2023).
Performance exploring whether intimacy can be felt with angular and highly functional spaces, such as the Saint Laurent Metro Station (2020). Click to view entire project. Photo credit: choose to be unnamed.
Cowboys in Love – original collage using found images, moss, and handmade paper (2022). $150 – sold framed. Click to go to the shop page!
A pocket zine about lost mittens and gloves (2023). Click on the image to be taken to the shop page.
A playful pocket zine with a friend saying hi in many environments (2019). Click to be taken to the shop page.
Leaving temporary humorously political messages in the streets as part of the 4 Nations funded remote workshop Hide & Seek conducted with [per]mission to Play (2022). Click to view more information about this project.
Five of the six members of [per]mission to Play having fun on some railings after facilitating a de-tour as part of the Fringe Arts Bath Festival (2022). Photo credit: Lou Abercombie.
One of over 200 comic entries created within the series Dishy Trish, now being slowly re-released on Patreon, with new content available to paid subscribers.

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