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Cora Li-Leger is an artist based in South Surrey, British Columbia.
Biography
[edit]After receiving a BFA from the University of Minnesota in 1975, Cora Li-Leger attended the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Joseog Plaskett. There she met her husband Don and subsequently immigrated to Canada. She has lived in South Surrey, British Columbia since 1987.
In the mid-1990’s, Cora pursued graduate studies in art therapy. Through 2015 she had an active career as an expressive therapist. Having retired from that profession, drawing, book-making, and intensive handiwork projects now comprise her practice. Much of her work engages iterative processes, quietude and meditative approaches.
Cora has participated in educational presentations, medical conference exhibitions, and artist book fairs, as well as gallery exhibitions in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Washington, and the United Kingdom. Her work is in the collection of Surrey Art Gallery.[1] [2]
She is a co-founder of Z·inc, an artist's collective that hosts collaborative art-making activities and exhibitions through South Surrey and further afield.[3]
Work
[edit]Many of Li-Leger's artworks incorporate themes of meditation, embodiemnt, personal ancestry, and the identification of patterns across different mental and natural phenomena. Her artworks often incorporate soft, found materials such as seeds, magnolia carpels, cut paper, and yarn. Her practice is process-based.[4]
Li-Leger’s experience as an expressive art therapist informs her own practice. With her deliberate, meditative approach to artmaking, Li-Leger often combines found organic materials with delicate needlework. Her approach speaks to the kinds of creative labour typically associated with “women’s work,” and reflects her own interests in the deep ties that bind individuals both to their own ancestors and to other species.[4]
Many of her works take the form of artist books that capture her synesthetic encounters with natural phenomena, or her recollections of a specific place. [1]
Awards
[edit]Along with partner and fellow artist Don, Li-Leger has been a recipient of awards from the City of Surrey for Social Innovation, City Beautification, and as a Surrey Civic Treasure award.[5][6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Back, Charlene (2024). "A Legacy of Marks: Suburban Songlines by Cora Li-Leger" (PDF). surrey.ca/artgallery.
- ↑ "ABOUT". Mysite. Retrieved 2026-03-07.
- ↑ "Z-inc Artist Collective – Z·inc". Retrieved 2026-03-07.
- 1 2 Exhibition text, 'A Tangled Thicket,' Surrey Art Gallery (April 5-June 8, 2025
- ↑ "ABOUT". Mysite. Retrieved 2026-03-07.
- ↑ City of Surrey (2016-05-17). Surrey Civic Treasures Recipients: Don and Cora Li Leger - 2015. Retrieved 2026-03-07 – via YouTube.
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