Fauxreel's latest project is a great fusion of art with its environment & the community:

"The Don Valley Brickworks operated for nearly 100 years and provided bricks used to construct many well-known Toronto landmarks such as Casa Loma, Osgoode Hall, Massey Hall and the Ontario Legislature. In 1928 the factory was sold and the name changed to the Toronto Brick Company. This change in ownership also saw the factory reach peak production of 25 million bricks per year.The kilns have been closed since 1984 and the property is currently owned and being revitalized by Evergreen.

With some initial leads thanks to filmmaker Catherine Annau, I was able to make contact with some of the former workers who were employed when the factory shut down in 1984.
I visited each subject at the their home and I shot portraits of these proud men and installed their images in the factory's Kiln Building.

To create the brick pattern, I worked with my assistant, Joe Cornfield, to cut everything out on-site as the bricks were of different sizes and the mortar various widths and heights. An arduous task for sure, but a testament to the men who helped to build Toronto, brick by brick."

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artist: Fauxreel
location: Toronto

Fauxreel's latest installation, a convincing illusion of abandoned store fronts, is for an exhibition at Toronto's Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA). It is inspired by a project he did with Specter in 2008 called 'A City Renewal Project', whereby they recreated abandoned storefronts 'as artistic monuments and documenting their history amidst the gentrified frenzy of urban change'.

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artist: Fauxreel
location: Toronto

The latest in Fauxreel's 'Face of the City' series.

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artist: Fauxreel
location: Toronto, Canada

Fauxreel's latest intervention:
"the idea is based on two different trains of thought...

selling something to people that they don't need...
when i researched this, i discovered that one of the most over reaching markets in this sense was for products created for babies, actually products created for parents who think they need to keep up with the jones'...

the other thing i noticed through doing this research was that people, especially in canada, are having children later in life...
buying a plastic baby might help those who don't have one of their own yet to feel like they belong...
which is what advertising is all about...

selling you something you don't need so you'll feel like you belong...

so why not sell the whole baby to the folks not ready for one... completely ridiculous, perhaps slightly offensive, absolutely fun. "

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artist: Fauxreel
location: Toronto, Canada

"I shot portraits of 600 girls and staff at Havergal College in Toronto, focusing on their eyes. The idea to create a tree out of the images came about from a short brainstorm session with students in the art club. They were interested in ideas of representing the school population as a whole and giving a nod to where the school is physically located – amongst a beautifully landscaped tree filled acreage. As much of my work deals with inclusion and I like breaking down ideas to their simplest form, the idea to create a tree using the girls eyes seemed to make complete sense and satisfied everyone’s various interests in the project.

600 participants x 2 eyes each x 3 copies of each eye = 3600 eyes total, or close to it

The Tree is approximately 15' High x 14.5' Wide

I would like to thank Carolyn MacDonald, The Art Club and everyone at Havergal who participated in the project."

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artist: Fauxreel
location: Toronto