Jordan Utting

I consider myself an interdisciplinary artist working in printmaking, photography, book media, collage, drawing and painting, and sculpture. My practice is personal, as I often gravitate towards more intimate explorations. My practice has always been based in curiosity and shaped through the material processes themselves, and my subject matter. I consider my practice in each medium separate, but there also exists an interconnection between them. As an artist working at these intersections, I find material research to be extremely generative.

My most recent larger body of work focused on printmaking, photography and collage. I use the technique of lithography to create prints of original hand-cut collages that appropriate imagery from various sources. These collages employ both humour and surrealism to tackle subjects like the absurd complexity of life, as well as more arduous topics like personal experience with memory, childhood, trauma, and identity.

Jordan Utting is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Toronto and is based in Montreal. Utting works primarily in collage, printmaking, photography and bookmaking. She holds a BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the recipient of the 2022 Landon Mackenzie Visual Arts Award. She has been published in “WOO” magazine and has been included in three group shows at Emily Carr University and one for Capture Photography Festival in 2022. Utting has created and curates a collaborative publication titled “Paper Jams Zine.”

Instagram @jour.dan