Artists : Jessica Eaton
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Jessica Eaton is an artist currently living in Toronto. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1977, she spent her childhood engrossed in competitive gymnastics, followed by troublemaking.

After giving up on high school, she eventually moved to Vancouver, BC, where she first picked up a camera. It was love at first developer bath, and she was taken on by Spotty Dog, a B&W professional lab, where she did custom printing in exchange for after-hours darkroom experimentation and lessons by the lab’s technician, Mark. In 2000, she was accepted into the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. In 2002, she took a one-year break to work in post-production for film and television, after which she returned to Emily Carr to earn a BFA in photography in 2006.

Her work has been exhibited in galleries and artist-run centers across Canada, including the LES Gallery, Helen Pitt Gallery, Access Gallery, Blanket Gallery, Paul Petro Projects and Hunter and Cook HQ, as well as featured on numerous photography blogs. Her photography has also been published in a number of art publications, including Pyramid Power, Patti, The Vancouver Review and the Hunter and Cook #4 Early Fall 2009.

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Education: BFA, Emily Carr University, Photography
Personal Website: http://www.jessicaeaton.com/
inspirations: I am inspired by all of art and photography. I spend a lot of time studying work I don't even "like." It is perhaps those images that are the most inspiring and they could just as easily be digital snaps uploaded to Facebook as a Jeff Wall. In photography, I love extremes and by that I mean pictures that show me a unique idea of what a picture can be. I like an image that points to possibilities. Because everyone likes to know, the names of a few picture-makers that have remained very important to me over the years are George Rousse, James Welling and Stephen Shore. I also cannot deny the huge influence that music plays in my life and work. There is also science, mathematics and philosophy. Many of my recent photographs borrow strategies from John Zorn, punk rock, theoretical physics, as well as Descartes. And-and-and. I believe Douglas Adams once wrote something about the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things."