Hadley Howes invites the public to engage in the co-creation of artworks in order to produce diverse accounts of time and place. Through community outreach programs, innovative production techniques, and a critically engaged research practice, Hadley gives voice to the forgotten, hidden and speculative journeys that inflect our interpretation of past, present and future histories.

Hadley has extensive experience as a visual artist, exhibiting, publishing and performing at international venues including the 4th Marrakech Biennale, the 19th Biennale of Sydney, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, Kunstwerke Berlin, Witte de With Rotterdam, Art Metropole, and Le Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble. Hadley’s first permanent public commission, Garden of Future Follies, was commissioned by Waterfront Toronto and installed in Toronto’s Canary District in the spring of 2016. Hadley is currently working on three permanent public commissions including an artist-initiated collaboration with members of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation in response to a commission awarded to Hadley by the city of Mississauga.

The process of creating art in public space is as integral to the permanent artwork as the materials used in fabrication and installation. In all my public work I actively engage local communities with an emphasis on social and environmental sustainability so that the process of production becomes a legacy commemorated by the work for years to come. The personal stories and experiences associated with works of art invest them with multiple perspectives and ways of being in the world, making them dynamic landmarks of experience, history, hope and community.