Mitch Mitchell’s FRAC addressed the impacts of Canadian industrial process, specifically fracking and oil extraction, on the natural environment. In sequence, Mitchell’s photo series poetically depicted a simple, winter-worn environment being corroded by mysterious disaster. Mitchell’s images ranged from large commercial banners to smaller picturesque landscapes, telling a story of land, industry, and a human thirst for energy.

Mitch Mitchell is a project-based artist exploring psychologies of labour and familial histories through the production of print-based practices. Through alteration of the mundane surface his sculptural and performance based works suggest notions of trauma and the frailty of the human psyche through the physical mass production of the multiple and/or transformation of historic objects. The constructions of his multiple bodies of works adopt materials of a democratic nature, rust, flour, water, newsprint and labour embedding the sculptural surfaces with notions of industry, time, alchemy and the impact of physical performance on the psyche.

For more information about Mitchell and his current work, visit his website.