Forsey is an interdisciplinary process-based creator and writer. Her practice is rooted in storytelling, fascination with the built environment, seeking beauty in lapsed spaces, and aleatory outputs.
Her work employs digital strategies and analogue processes that investigate the possibilities of what photography can be, and drone photography to examine human activity on the landscape. In 2022, her series Urban Remains, showcasing abandoned spaces of our cultural past was installed in Gallery Stratford’s, Art in the Trees, and in 2023 her drone studies and writing about Guelph Lake were included in Another Earth’s photographic survey What Makes a Lake? Tracing Movement. In 2025 her collaborative project with Anna Gaby-Trotz, The Landscape is Dead, will be included in the CAFKA: Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area 2025 biennial programming.
Her work has been shown in Canada, the U.S. and abroad, as well as collaboratively in the Contact Photography Festival, and Nuit Blanche (Toronto).
She is a member of the urbex photography collective TLR Club, and is the Photography Technician in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph.
Exhibitions & Art Happenings
2025
The Landscape is Dead @ CAFKA
with Anna Gaby-Trotz
Details TBA
2024
Si(gh)t[e] Lines @ Gallery 44 Production Gallery
with Ariyo, Carolyn Cheng & Peggy Taylor Reid
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 12, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
The Landscape is Dead @ Wyndham Arts 3rd Floor Gallery
with Anna Gaby-Trotz
125 Wyndham St. N, Guelph, ON
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14, 2-5 p.m.
www.TheLandscapeIsDead.com
2024 Insights 43rd Juried Exhibition of Fine Arts @ The Wellington County Museum & Archives
April 18 – June 30, 2024
Opening Gala: April 18
Walk with Jurors: April 20
Spring/Summer/Fall, Celebration of the Seasons @ The Greenroom at the Bookshelf Cinema, Guelph, ON
on-going
A rotating exhibition exploring iconic landscapes. Presented by Eric Allen Montgomery, ART@ebar independent curator.
A Community of Trees @ Embassy Cultural House
Curated by: Emmy Meredith, Curatorial Advisors: Ron Benner and Jamelie Hassan
Online Launch: March 1, 2024
2023
Urban Remains / Art in the Trees @ Gallery Stratford
December 3, 2022 – April 2, 2023
How to Draw a Tree
Sound walks in The Arboretum by Dawn Matheson & website / visuals by Richelle Forsey (shortlisted for the 2022 and 2023 Sound Walk September Awards)
visit: www.HowToDrawATree.ca
Celebration of the Seasons @ The Greenroom at the Bookshelf Cinema, Guelph, ON
on-going
A rotating exhibition exploring iconic landscapes. Presented by Eric Allen Montgomery, ART@ebar independent curator.
Improvising Communities: A Retrospective Exhibition @ IF2023
Massey Hall, University of Guelph
October 16–21, 2023
Blue – @ Gallery 44
Jul 14 – Jul 29, 2023
blue (formerly 365) is an annual member-run exhibition presenting a non-juried survey of artwork created by Gallery 44 members in the past year.
Opening Reception: Friday, July 14, 6:00 – 8:00 PM