Main Gallery:
The Drawing Clinic
An Interactive Public Performance by Sarah Mihara Creagen
November 8 – November 23 | 2024
By appointment
The Drawing Clinic is back! Book your 20 minute in-person appointment to participate in Sarah Mihara Creagen’s interactive performance at Neutral Ground. Join her for a one-on-one conversation behind the medical screen in The Drawing Clinic, from November 8-23th, 2024.
We kindly ask our visitors to wear a face mask while participating in this performance. Masks will be available at the gallery. Please reach out to Neutral Ground at [email protected] for accessibility questions or requests.
The Drawing Clinic
The Drawing Clinic is an interactive public performance by Sarah Mihara Creagen and Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre exploring roles within the medical system, and the container of time created through the emptying of medication IV bags during an infusion appointment. Each visitor to The Drawing Clinic will be given an IV Sumi ink drawing done during their appointment in exchange for their participation and conversation.
Sarah Mihara Creagen is a white passing mixed-race Japanese Canadian Queer artist born in Nova Scotia and currently living in Toronto. Her practice consists of research into intersecting histories of the medical system and botany, and considers these topics through personal experiences of queerness, chronic illness and disability while living with Crohn’s Disease. Sarah received her MFA in 2018 from Hunter College (NYC) and was a 2018 Queer|Art Mentorship Fellow. She has had solo exhibitions at Katharine Mulherin’s NO FOUNDATION gallery (Toronto), SPRING/BREAK Art Show and Hercules Studios Gallery in New York City, and multiple artist-run centres across Canada including Montreal, Halifax, and London, ON.
Her work has been featured in The NY Times “What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now”, Hyperallergic, and Visual Arts News. Sarah’s work has been supported through multiple visual artist grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Art Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.
Image description:
A photo showing a close, bird’s eye view of Sarah’s hands wearing blue medical gloves, resting on a clean white tabletop holding an IV infusion tube needle. The infusion tube is filled with black sumi ink, and Sarah is drawing with the IV needle and the ink on a sheet of paper. Sitting beside the drawing is a stainless-steel kidney shaped surgical dish, splattered with black ink.
