Bio

Sculptor and performer Jehanne Hale is originally from Saskatchewan, Canada, where she spent her childhood falling in love with the prairies. She graduated from The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, in Vancouver BC, with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art, and now lives in the Bay Area with her partner and fifteen month old son. She has combined the wonderful scent and color of her medium with her own personal cultural associations to create large, remarkable quilts out of beeswax. She also makes labyrinths, landscapes and bread out of beeswax in her continuing exploration of symbolic and sacred spaces. Her work is at once a heartfelt celebration of traditional practical domestic arts and an intimate study of the vital connections we share with our insect neighbors.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Woman As Symbol - California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco CA beeswax sculpture 2003
The Tree of Life - ODC Theater, San Francisco CA set design Oct. 2000
Gather - Crucible Steele Gallery, Cell Space, San Francisco, CA beeswax sculpture Oct. 2000
Lingam and Yoni -Burning Man Opera, Black Rock, Nevada large-scale clay sculptures Aug./Sept. 2000
This Kind of Hunger - Michaud House Gallery, Vancouver BC beeswax sculpture March 2000
Kar - ne - val - 60 East Cordova, Vancouver BC beeswax installation Feb. 1996
The Float - Or Gallery, Vancouver BC ongoing collaborative performance Oct./Nov. 1995
2nd Annual Fraser Valley Women's Art Show - Kariton Gallery, BC beeswax sculpture Oct/Nov. 1995
13th Annual Vancouver Juried Exhibition - Community Arts Council, BC beeswax sculpture May 1995
Works in 3D - Port Coquitlam City Hall, BC cast aluminium, beeswax sculpture May/June 1995
Rednecks & City Slickers - The Pitt Gallery, Van. BC beeswax installation Nov./Dec. 1994
1st Annual Fraser Valley Women's Art Show - Kariton Gallery, BC beeswax sculpture Aug. 1994
Reinforced Wings - Women in Focus Gallery, Vancouver BC performance Nov. 1993
Art With A Conscience - Harrington Gallery, Vancouver BC beeswax sculpture Sept. 1992
Benefit for Oxfam - The Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC beeswax sculpture Sept. 1992

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Michael Christopher Lawler (Vancouver, BC) -purchased Dec. 2000, purchased April 2001
Robert Brown (Vancouver, BC) -purchased May 1998
Wesley Yuen (Vancouver, BC) -purchased June 1992

MEDIA

Daytime television July 1999
Plugged In television July 1999
The Georgia Straight newspaper Aug. 1995
Preview of the Arts magazine Jan. 1995
The Creators television Jan. 1995
Zero Avenue television Dec. 1994
The Vancouver Echo newspaper July 1994
The Georgia Straight newspaper Nov. 1994
The Georgia Straight newspaper Aug. 1992
BCTV News television May. 1992
Zero Avenue

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

Studio Valencia, San Francisco CA fire performance Oct. 2000
Burning Man Opera - Atlantis, Black Rock City, Nevada ritual theater, fire performance Aug./Sept. 2000
Studio Valencia, San Francisco CA fire performance July 2000
Crucible Foundry, Berkeley CA fire performance May 2000
Winter Solstice lantern Procession, Van. BC fire performance Dec. 1999
The Ghost Train, Van. BC fire performance Oct. 1999
Burning Man Opera, Papa Loco, Black Rock City, Nevada ritual theater, fire performance Aug./Sept. 1999
Spontaneous Combustion, Van. BC fire performance Aug. 1999
Vibe, Van. BC fire performance Aug. 1999
Illuminares, Van. BC fire performance July 1999
Anza Club, Van. BC fire performance June 1999