Colleen Heslin (born 1976) is a Canadian mixed-media artist based in Vancouver, Canada. Heslin works predominantly with textiles and quilting to create an abstract compositions. Heslin was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in London, Ontario. She graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography and in 2014 she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University in painting and drawing. As a young artist Heslin established The Crying Room (1999-2014), a rented retail unit on Cordova Street and Main Street in Vancouver which she used as an exhibition space of other local artists' works. Her artist-run space became a venue for many new and emerging artists and placed an emphasis on equal exposure for female and male artists. A large focus on community can also be seen at Heslin's Crying Room in "The Writing on the Wall" project, which was a twenty-two-week public art project in 2011 exhibited outside the front of the gallery, as well as the "Chalkboard" project in 2003, also in front of the gallery. Under the gallery's operations Heslin facilitated several interviews with the exhibited artists on topics such as their inspiration, media, and style. Heslin also completed several residencies in North America and Europe including in Saskatchewan, Vevey, Berlin, Malcolm Island, and Joshua Tree between the years 2011-2016. She is represented by Monte Clark Gallery. More information...
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