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 analog 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.
Her work has been shown in Canada, the U.S. and abroad, as well as collaboratively in the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (Toronto).
She is a member of the urbex photography collective TLR Club, and is the Photography Technician at the University of Guelph.
Exhibitions & Art Happenings
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
2024
The Landscape is Dead @ Wyndham Arts 3rd Floor gallery
with Anna Gaby-Trotz
Details TBA
2025
The Landscape is Dead
with Anna Gaby-Trotz
Details TBA