Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett are award-winning artists & collaborators based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis – a city near the Rocky Mountains in Western Canada. Caitlind & Wayne have worked together since 2010, developing an art practice that includes light art, sculptures, installations, public art, radio, artist-curation, urban interventions, environmental art, and collective actions. Caitlind & Wayne’s site-responsive public art projects can be visited in Calgary, Creston, Edmonton, and Toronto. Their works are exhibited extensively at museums, festivals, and galleries, nationally and internationally.
Caitlind & Wayne navigate the interspace between false dichotomies: light and dark, nature and culture, DIY and institutional, individual and collective. They engage deeply with social spaces, exploring the perimeter of what is and isn’t “allowed” in any given environment – always within the framework of practical mischief, being good neighbours, and sharing in an abundance of democratic possibilities. Whether working locally or internationally, in formal galleries or their own backyard, Caitlind & Wayne believe in art’s potential to create new understandings of the everyday, closing the distance between people, and building our human capacity for empathy and self-criticality in a complex world.
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett. Photo by Mik Nilmanee.
Caitlind r.c. Brown is an artist, collaborator, and cultural organizer. She graduated from Alberta University of the Arts in 2010, earning an Alumni of Merit Career Award in 2019. She has founded numerous projects, collectives, and collaborative partnerships, including WRECK CITY, an organization curating experimental art exhibitions in pre-demolition spaces. She guided The Wandering Island with Lane Shordee & Wayne Garrett, facilitating ‘slow art for the audience of birds, bats, beaver, fish, and the occasional curious wanderer’ unfolding on an island in the Elbow River. In response to the rigours of working in the field of public art, Caitlind & Wayne launched The Hibernation Project in 2019, an annual experimental art series combating the isolation of Winter through a series of collaborative events. Spinoffs from The Hibernation Project include monthly sound art radio program, EARS HAVE EYES, and IDLE WORSHIP, a mobile car-based exhibition touring the parking lots of Calgary.
Wayne Patrick Garrett is an artist and musician. He trained as a Journeyman Machinist at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, working in Whitehorse, Yukon for several years before returning to Alberta to pursue an education in Jazz Music at Mount Royal University. He entered into the world of contemporary art through the Arbour Lake Sghool, a subversive arts collective in the suburbs of Calgary, when he moved into the collective’s house in 2007. Here he met Caitlind Brown and they began their joint career in the arts, collaborating on films and installations. Wayne performs as a musician in a series of bands, including Ghostkeeper, Amy Nelson, Ryan Bourne & The Plant City Band, and many more. He will be releasing his first solo pedal steel album with Inner Ocean Records in 2024. Wayne’s love of collaboration, rigorous experimentation, composition, and technical proficiency began with music and machining, and expanded into a multidisciplinary arts practice.
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett. Photos by Mike Tan.
Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett 