FLASH Photographic Festival presents

The Language of Loss

A panel discussion with lens-based artists:

Sarah Crawley

Susan P. Gibson

Tracy Peters

Moderated by Renée Saurette

Gas Station Theatre

April 17, 2025

7:00 PM

Sarah Crawley

Sarah Crawley will discuss her alternative photographic artworks, made during the time leading up to and following her mother’s passing, that explore vulnerability, grief and loss.

Sarah Crawley works with ideas generated from lived experience using different photographic technologies and materials; she stubbornly clings to analog film and alternative photography techniques while also embracing digital processes in her recent investigations around vulnerability and personal loss.

Susan P. Gibson BFA :

My interest is in the experience and merit of artists and audience who exist outside of the mainstream art lexicon; Grief Work images honour the universality of grief while focused on the consistency of change.

Mid century Canadian born inAlberta raised in Portage la Prairie Manitoba with visual being my first language and culture. 

Recognized early for my drawing ability art has forever been both identity and survival; formal art education and practice enhanced my skills 

Throughout life invitations to celebrations and ceremonies from diverse friends and colleagues informed my understanding of spirit and the interconnectedness of everything and everyone.

This work reflects the influence of spiritual and artistic beliefs explored in Celtic and Indigenous art, which recognize that nothing living is still; everything is related and in an evolving reality.

Tracy Peters

I’ll discuss how I use immersive processes to collaborate with the environment in an attempt to draw attention to ecological crises and habitat loss.