Sounds Like a Whisper
October 30 - November 1, 2026
field & onto gallery, Vancouver, Canada
To uncover the essence of something is a way of encountering and understanding the world. This exhibition, Sounds Like a Whisper, is a confluence of six artists, Dakota Burpee, Emily Fantuz, Jennilee Marigomen, Richelle Greabeiel, Samantha Dickie, and Sarah Delaney, investigating the delicate act of seeing the unseen. Each artist was invited to reveal what is overlooked, erased, or just beyond reach. Their artworks explore their own engagement with the visible, the hidden, and the ephemeral.
The artists consider a central question: What lies at the limits of perception?
Across the exhibition, fleeting moments of light, hidden spaces, obscured forms, and subtle environmental traces become points of inquiry. In her paintings, Emilie Fantuz captures fleeting optical phenomena, preserving transient moments of light to encourage sustained reflection on what is often overlooked. Investigating perception and temporality, Sarah Delaney’s suspended installation holds movement, light, and time in delicate balance. Dakota Burpee's woven textile traces connections between body, memory, labour, and the cosmos, imagining fibre as a vessel for time and experience. Through photography, Jennilee Marigomen embraces obscured scenes, transforming familiar subjects into ambiguous images that embrace abstraction. Richelle Greabeiel's translucent prints simultaneously reveal and conceal, questioning how meaning is constructed from fragments and partial evidence. Samantha Dickie explores the space between visibility and obscurity, using sculptural clay forms and intentional absence to consider emptiness as a site of emergence and possibility. The featured works dwell in ambiguity, drawing attention to the subtle traces, environmental cues, and forms that resist immediate understanding. Together, they invite viewers into a slower mode of perception, one grounded in sustained observation, attentiveness, and an openness to uncertainty.
Presented by Spur Projects
Curated by Sarah Delaney
JENNILEE MARIGOMEN is a self-taught Canadian photographer whose work investigates everyday phenomena. The tension between the natural world and urban intervention permeate her images with a playful undertone. Her photographs capture environments that highlight the fleeting extraordinary. Some of Jennilee’s clients include The New York Times, The Atlantic, Dwell, Wallpaper, Apple, Open AI, Sonos, Aesop, On, Vitra, and Apartamento. She was selected as one of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch. She has published 3 books including Window Seat by Los Angeles based New Documents. She was part of Gallery 295’s show Index: Five Emerging Vancouver Photographers juried by The Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2024, she exhibited Sehnsucht at the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Gallery for the Capture Photography Festival.
DAKOTA BURPEE is a textile-based artist living on the traditional lands of the K’ómoks people in Cumberland, BC. Her practice explores the shape-shifting nature of materials and the relationship between body and cloth. Working from a converted gardening shed in her backyard, she uses processes such as spinning, weaving, felting and sewing, and learning about animacy and cyclical patterns from fibres. Her pieces either carry a trace of human form, evoking a connection between body and piece, or invite interaction through touch or movement. Dakota holds a BFA in Textiles and Fashion from NSCAD University and an MFA from ECUAD. Her work has appeared in fashion shows, wearable art shows, performances, collaborations with dancers, and galleries across Canada, and will be shown at Dutch Design Week 2026 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. She has attended residencies and trained in Norway to facilitate TC2 loom workshops.
RICHELLE GREABEIEL (b. Alberta) is an interdisciplinary artist and spatial designer based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work spans sculpture, installation, performance, and photography. In addition to a personal art practice, Richelle operates under the name studio ilo, a project dedicated to botanical, spatial, and material projects. Her practice considers how material and spatial experience shape perception and memory. Richelle’s areas of research are informed by her background in occupational therapy, whereby she has developed an deep understanding of the relationships between people, their environments, and their lived experience. She has attended residencies in British Columbia, Ireland, Spain and Portugal. Richelle is the founder and creative director of field & onto | studios & gallery, a space shaped by her interest in how environments can influence creative practice and exchange.
SAMANTHA DICKIE is based on the traditional unceded territory of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations in Victoria British Columbia. Samantha is a contemporary ceramic installation artist with two decades of experience executing a wide range of site-specific projects for public, corporate and private settings. Her architecturally scaled installations have been exhibited in solo and group public exhibitions across Canada. Samantha’s work is characterized by a vast multiplicity of individual forms that collectively accumulate into complex clusters, sequences and large suspended spatial fields. She holds an MFA, a BA in Gender and Indigenous Studies, as well as a Diploma of Craft and Design in Ceramics. She has attended artist residencies in France, China, Yukon, and Alberta, with an upcoming Arctic Circle Residency. Dickie has received national and provincial grants as well as featured in numerous publications. Her work can be found in collections, permanent installations and public projects across North America.
SARAH DELANEY (b. 1986, Kenora Canada) is based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Sarah is a multi-disciplinary artist, working between painting, textile collage, and installation. Sarah considers qualitative, internal time as a central medium and theme in her work. She is interested in transformative processes that shape their environments. For her, they offer a glimpse into past interactions, providing contextual substance, and the story of place. Sarah holds a BFA in Visual Art from the University of Victoria and a DID from Vancouver College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited across North America, notably Mexico Art Week, the Toronto Art Fair, and the NYC Art on Paper Fair. She has participated in artist residencies in the United States, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain.
EMILIE FANTUZ is based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Emilie is a contemporary artist whose work examines the fragmented nature of perception through light, reflection, and layered space. Drawing from optical phenomena, she collects streaks of light, reflections, shadows, and the remnants of mediation to articulate a way of seeing that resists a singular viewpoint. Emilie holds a MFA from ECUAD and was the 2026 Artist-in-Residence at Terra Nova National Park. Her work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Her paintings are held in collections including KJH Investors, Henry Ford Hospital, Stewart McKelvey, Bucci Developments, and the Bank of Ann Arbor.
