Michelle Wilson
Michelle Wilson is an artist and mother currently residing as an uninvited guest on Treaty Six territory in London, Ontario. She defended her SSHRC and OGS-funded Ph.D. in May 2022 at the University of Western Ontario. As a feminist of settler descent studying in colonial institutions, Wilson’s dissertation investigated and confronted the Euro-American archive and how other animals’ bodies are employed to convey colonial knowledge systems, with their stories of survival used to perpetuate myths of “settler saviours.”
Wilson is a contributing editor with Embassy Cultural House and a lead researcher for GardenShip and State and the Centre for Sustainable Curating at UWO. Michelle’s ongoing projects include leading the ReMediating Soils Project and the Coves Collective, a group of artist-activists engaged in actions on the Land that challenge ideas of ownership and conservation.
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Forced Migration, 2020-2021
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