Paper and ink on acetate, hand-manipulated animation cell on overhead projector. Artwork circa 2008

Paper and ink on acetate, hand-manipulated animation cell on overhead projector. Artwork circa 2008

Paper and ink on acetate, hand-manipulated animation cell on overhead projector. Artwork circa 2008

Overhead projection. Artwork circa 2008

Paper and lace on acetate, hand-manipulated animation cell on overhead projector. Artwork circa 2014

Overhead projection. Artwork circa 2014

Paper on acetate, hand-manipulated animation cell on overhead projector. Artwork circa 2010

Overhead projection. Artwork circa 2010

Paper and ink on acetate, hand-manipulated animation cell on overhead projector. Artwork circa 2010

Paper on acetate, hand-manipulated animation cell on overhead projector. Artwork circa 2010

Paper on acetate, hand-manipulated animation cell on overhead projector. Artwork circa 2010

Overhead projection. Artwork circa 2010

Paper and ink on acetate, hand-manipulated animation cell on overhead projector. Artwork circa 2014

Overhead projection. Artwork circa 2014

2023/2024. Outside the Palace of Me, Museum of Art and Design, NYC, US. 4th floor installation view. Expanded survey presenting two decades of performance film, video and overhead projections.

2023/2024. Outside the Palace of Me, Museum of Art and Design, NYC, US. 4th floor installation view of original animation artworks for overhead projector.

Original animation cell, backlit. Paper on acetate, circa 2005

Original animation cell, backlit. Paper on acetate, circa 2006

Summer 2023, artist’s studio. John Price on camera. 16mm and video film shoot of Shary performing overhead projection artworks. Film project commissioned by the Museum of Art and Design, NYC for the exhibition Outside the Palace of Me, 2023-2024. Photo by Marcia Connolly.

2023/2024. Outside the Palace of Me, Museum of Art and Design, NYC, US. 4th floor installation view. Gutted overhead projectors with embedded video monitors screen close-up footage of artist’s hands manipulating animation artwork. Simultaneous 16mm footage of paired animations projected on screen. Camera by John Price, direction and camera assistance by Marcia Connolly, edited by Jordan Beck Crouse.

November, 2016. Set design and rear projections for Voix de Ville!, a multi-disciplinary performance extravaganza directed by Deanna Jones, hosted by Bruce McCulloch and presented by the Niagara Artists Centre. FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St Catharines, ON

November, 2016. Set design and rear projections for Voix de Ville!, a multi-disciplinary performance extravaganza directed by Deanna Jones, hosted by Bruce McCulloch and presented by the Niagara Artists Centre. FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St Catharines, ON

November, 2016. Set design and rear projections for Voix de Ville!, a multi-disciplinary performance extravaganza directed by Deanna Jones, hosted by Bruce McCulloch and presented by the Niagara Artists Centre. FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St Catharines, ON

November, 2016. Set design and rear projections for Voix de Ville!, a multi-disciplinary performance extravaganza directed by Deanna Jones, hosted by Bruce McCulloch and presented by the Niagara Artists Centre. FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St Catharines, ON

November, 2016. Set design and rear projections for Voix de Ville!, a multi-disciplinary performance extravaganza directed by Deanna Jones, hosted by Bruce McCulloch and presented by the Niagara Artists Centre. FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St Catharines, ON

November, 2016. Set design and rear projections for Voix de Ville!, a multi-disciplinary performance extravaganza directed by Deanna Jones, hosted by Bruce McCulloch and presented by the Niagara Artists Centre. FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St Catharines, ON

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB. Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home toured to the Northwest Territories (October 2014), Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse YT (2015), OddFellows Hall, Dawson City, YT (2015), Lux Theatre, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, BC (2015), Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB (2015), The Banff Centre, AB (2015), Luminato Festival, Toronto, ON (2015), ChamberFest, Ottawa, ON (2015), Woody Point Writers Festival, NFLD, CA (2015)

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, artwork still.

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, February 2015. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, October 2014. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, Yellowknife, NWT

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, October 2014. In collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. Performance still from the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, Yellowknife, NWT. Accompanied by the Gryphon Trio.

Spell To Bring Lost Creatures Home, 2014. Christine Fellows and Shary Boyle

Everything Under the Moon, February 2012, in collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. World Stage Series, Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, CA http://vimeo.com/44877832

Everything Under the Moon, February 2012. World Stage Series, Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, CA. With projection assistant Emma Letki

Everything Under the Moon, February 2012. World Stage Series, Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, CA. With projection assistant Emma Letki

Everything Under the Moon, February 2012, with musician Christine Fellows, World Stage Series, Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, CA

Everything Under the Moon, February 2012. L to R: Emma Letki (projection/puppet assistance), Alex McMaster (cello, voice), Christine Fellows (original score, piano, ukulele, voice), Shary Boyle (original projections, art direction, stage design, puppets), Ed Reiffel (percussion), Amy Siegel (puppet/projection assistance). World Stage Series, Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, CA

Shadow Songs, October 2010, in collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, CA

Shadow Songs, October 2010, in collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, CA

Shadow Songs, October 2010, in collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, CA

Shadow Songs, October 2010, in collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, CA

Shadow Songs, October 2010, in collaboration with musician Christine Fellows. The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, CA

The Monkey and the Mermaid, April 2010, with musician Christine Fellows. Images Festival, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, ON, CA

The Monkey and the Mermaid, April 2010. Images Festival, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, ON, CA

The Monkey and the Mermaid, April 2010. Images Festival, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, ON, CA

The Monkey and the Mermaid, April 2010. Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows dance in costume. Images Festival, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, ON, CA

The Monkey and the Mermaid, April 2010. Images Festival, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, ON, CA

The Monkey and the Mermaid, April 2010. Images Festival, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, ON, CA

The Monkey and the Mermaid, April 2010. Shary Boyle dances with small paper puppet. Images Festival, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, ON, CA

The Monkey and the Mermaid, April 2010. Shary Boyle dances with small paper puppet. Images Festival, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, ON, CA

The Monkey and the Mermaid, April 2010. Shary Boyle dances with small paper puppet. Images Festival, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, ON, CA

Reliquary/Reliquaire, September 2009, with musician Christine Fellows, Le Musée de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg

untitled solo performance, May 2008. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

untitled solo performance, May 2008. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

Original acetate/paper artwork for solo performance, May 2008. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

Dark Hand and Lamplight, October 2006, with musician Doug Paisley. Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA. 10-date tour across California, US, opening for musician Will Oldham

Dark Hand and Lamplight, October 2006. Artwork detail

Dark Hand and Lamplight, October 2006. Shary Boyle covers Doug Paisley with a sheet

Dark Hand and Lamplight, October 2006.

A Night with Kramers Ergot, March 2006. Solo performance, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

A Night with Kramers Ergot, March 2006. Solo performance, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

A Night with Kramers Ergot, March 2006. Solo performance, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

A Night with Kramers Ergot, March 2006. Solo performance, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US http://vimeo.com/105294784 Forward to time code 54:10

A Night with Kramers Ergot, March 2006. Solo performance, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US http://vimeo.com/105294784 Forward to time code 54:10