Nicole Dextras
Chronos, time of sand, short film poster. Survival in a dystopian drought through innovative water capture and desert plants
Bouquet, temporary outdoor installation of frozen garments at the Banff Art Centre, in Alberta Canada
Algae Project: research and experimentation of Bio-Plastics based on seaweed
Forest Warrior Tailleur, street intervention at the Fashion Revolution event in 2024. Costume made of woven bark.
A Dressing the Future: the ecofictions of Nicole Dextras, exhibition view at the Houston Center fro Contemporary Craft
Film still from Waiting for Spring; Persephone and the Pomegranate
The Mobile Garden Dress, part of the Urban Foragers series. Skirt contains 40 pots of edible plants and converts into a shelter
Laurel Suffragette questions a store clerk about factory conditions
Vancouver based artist Nicole Dextras creates environmental art that roots nature into our everyday urban experience. She works across diverse mediums, blending textile arts, natural materials, performance, photography and film, to create ephemeral installations and social interventions.
Her artistic commitment to ecology is based in her dedication to using only sustainable and low impact materials such as bark, seaweed and fruit peels in her wearable art.
Dextras has exhibited her work in Canada, the USA and in Asia. Her most recent solo exhibition <em>A Dressing the Future</em>, <em>the eco-fiction of Nicole Dextras</em> was held at the Huston Center for Contemporary Craft in Texas in May 2022. Other notable group exhibitions include: <em>Courants vert</em>, at Espace Fondation EDF in Paris, <em>Modest Forms of Biocultural Hope </em>at the Western Gallery WWU, in Bellingham USA and <em>Hybris</em> at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Léon in Spain.
Her work has been featured in Create Naturally by Marcia Young for Schiffer Publishing, the Canadian National Broadcaster’s web series The Exhibitionists and included as a stamp in the Earth Day collection by the United Nations. Her most recent publication is in the 2024 Spring issue Fiber Art Now magazine.