Puck’s Pub 2023, depicts the intensity and absurdity of love affairs. Scanning the QR code in the painting links to the song Uneasy Feeling by the Calgary, Alberta band The Lovebullies. https://youtu.be/6Fujqb5s6Fk The painting is titled after the character Puck, a mischievous fairy in William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Puck fuels most of the comedy in the play, causing confusion and trouble revealing the complexities of love.

Violet Costello

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My works are often comical. But they also raise unsettling questions about our place in the world and the formation and meaning of cultural identities and stereotypes. I am interested in the complexities of the human condition — our quirks and fears, our moments of loneliness and joy, our ways of moving, identifying and representing ourselves — and inspired by the child’s world of play, where reality readily gives way to, and confuses with, imagination.