Mori McCrae was born in Toronto in 1961. She attended the Ontario College of Art from from 1982-1986 graduating from Fine Art, winning the Forsythe Scholarship for painting in her final year.
For the last 22 years, McCrae has lived and worked in the Niagara Region. She is a founding member of the Jordan Art Gallery (2001), where she currently exhibits her work and actively promotes artists from the Niagara Region. She is also a member of The Canadian Authors Association.
The artist has received numerous exhibition assistance grants from the Ontario Arts Council, for travel, teaching and exhibiting.
In 2011 McCrae was awarded an artists residency at the renowned Cill Rialaig Artist Residency in Ireland where she expanded her practice to include the limenal shift from image to word.
In 2013 she attended Sim Residency in Iceland and in 2015 the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, to further this exploration.
For the last 22 years, McCrae has lived and worked in the Niagara Region. She is a founding member of the Jordan Art Gallery (2001), where she currently exhibits her work and actively promotes artists from the Niagara Region. She is also a member of The Canadian Authors Association.
The artist has received numerous exhibition assistance grants from the Ontario Arts Council, for travel, teaching and exhibiting.
In 2011 McCrae was awarded an artists residency at the renowned Cill Rialaig Artist Residency in Ireland where she expanded her practice to include the limenal shift from image to word.
In 2013 she attended Sim Residency in Iceland and in 2015 the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, to further this exploration.
Poetry 2017
Image Credit: Sandy Middleton
Shelf Life, currently available at the Jordan Art Gallery is Mori McCrae's debut chapbook, published by Grey Borders Books, containing poems reflecting a life lived in Niagara between the escarpment's edge, and Lake Ontario.
"McCrae tells very short stories about very simple moments that make up a normal day. Her poems are unpretentious and forthright. She does not suppose that her readers want inflated melodrama, and she has no use for hyperbole. Her honesty, in that sense, separates her from ...me. If we were to put our poems on some kind of sliding dignity scale, Mori McCrae would be at one end, with sunshine and flowers (which appear a few times in this chapbook), followed by James Millhaven being sad and accurate, then Dave Haskins, then Kevin McCabe...some others fill up the middle...at the other end of the scale we would have Lindsay Cahill being hilarious, followed by a live nude one-man version of The Naked Gun movies starring James Millhaven with a confetti cannon, then my poems.
…..Buy this book for someone who likes to read but needs to chill out. An older audience will appreciate it more than a younger one. Do you go to a church with a library space? It could use a copy. It would also sell well at a fruit stand on Hwy 8 or a fruit stand on Lakeshore Road in NOTL"
-Reviewed by Terry Trowbridge
"McCrae tells very short stories about very simple moments that make up a normal day. Her poems are unpretentious and forthright. She does not suppose that her readers want inflated melodrama, and she has no use for hyperbole. Her honesty, in that sense, separates her from ...me. If we were to put our poems on some kind of sliding dignity scale, Mori McCrae would be at one end, with sunshine and flowers (which appear a few times in this chapbook), followed by James Millhaven being sad and accurate, then Dave Haskins, then Kevin McCabe...some others fill up the middle...at the other end of the scale we would have Lindsay Cahill being hilarious, followed by a live nude one-man version of The Naked Gun movies starring James Millhaven with a confetti cannon, then my poems.
…..Buy this book for someone who likes to read but needs to chill out. An older audience will appreciate it more than a younger one. Do you go to a church with a library space? It could use a copy. It would also sell well at a fruit stand on Hwy 8 or a fruit stand on Lakeshore Road in NOTL"
-Reviewed by Terry Trowbridge
Available Works on Display 2018
BODY
Mixed media on Duralar
36"x40"
$1,300
LOUPE
Drawing on Paper
18"x24
$400
CRUMPLED PAPER SERIES
oil on panel
12"x12"
$275
Selected Works 2015-2017 |
PELVIC BOWL
mixed media on Duralar
10"x12"
$325
OPERATIVE
Drawing on Paper
18"24"
$400
CRUMPLED PAPER SERIES
oil on Panel
24"x24"
$525
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Selected Works 2012-2014
Selected Works 2009-2011
