DRAW Space is thrilled to present Scott Elk / DUSK+DUST: The Denouement – Drawing Together the Strands of Grief. Curated by Jeremy Smith.

The work of prolific multidisciplinary artist Scott Elk is a meditation on how image, object and sound can come together to express grief. Working across drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, collage and sound, Scott expresses the same idea across different media.

Elk conducts this orchestra of mediums as a Requiem for his late father. Here, the artist works through the stages of grief to ultimately arrive at a place of acceptance and celebration.

The exhibition will feature the largest artworks that DRAW Space has yet to exhibit. Another first for the gallery will be the three musical compositions by Scott Elk that visitors can listen to as they ponder their relationships with grief and acceptance. 

DRAW Space is honoured to share this profoundly moving and vulnerable show by an artist who invites us to join him on a journey of art and love for those who passed. 

“The intent is the same, but the outcome is so varied and unique to the medium. I often think about the materiality of the different mediums I work in, to find, and lean into what they do best, and then formally play within this space. When artworks that spring from the same conceptual place are placed together, they start to have a conversation.”

Scott’s exhibition at DRAW Space will include a performance of a sound piece on opening night.

Dusk. The end of the day. The closing. That brief time of the day when everything is glowing orange. The Golden Hour. That moment before darkness.

Dust. Ashes. Elemental matter that can be easily taken and disseminated by the wind, scattered, blown apart, lost. A returning to the earth. Earth. Death.

Denouement. The final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together, and matters are explained or resolved. Derived from Latin, denouement literally means to “untie the knot,” which refers to the narrative entanglements the author has woven through the first four stages of plot development. The denouement always occurs after the climax, in the final part of a story's narrative arc.

Scott Elk in studio, documentation by Jeremy Smith.