Lyndsay McKay
is an artist living
on Vancouver Island,
British Columbia.

My practice is an interdisciplinary exploration of ecological attunement, embodied research, and lived experience in healthcare. With over a decade of work in acute care, dementia and end-of-life care, I bring a biological and sensorial sensitivity to sculptural processes, where questions of memory, relation, and environment converge.
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Through autoethnographic methods - archiving, journaling, photography, and sculpture - I examine how bodies and environments are porous, adaptive, and memory-bearing. Much of my work grows from the coastal landscapes of Vancouver Island, yet other sites also take hold: the layered geographies of urban streets, porous houses and domestic spaces, and the subtle negotiations between human beings in acts of looking and being-with. These shifting environments become collaborators, shaping the forms and inquiries that emerge in my practice.
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My Master's thesis, sPACES Between (2023) and continued doctoral research, embodies this ethos. Here, sPACES is both a title and framework: slowing the Pace for Attunement, Care, Empathy, and Sensitivity. These principles guide my processes of casting, foraging, and layering materials - clay, seaweed, fragments of the body - into sculptural forms that act as vessels and hosts, merging self and site, preservation and change.
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Grounded in sPACES, I approach art not as therapy but as inquiry: a way of tracing memory, cultivating relational knowledges - human to human, human to material - and contributing to broader ecological and philosophical conversations.