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Esther Simmonds-MacAdam is an interdisciplinary emerging artist based in Toronto. Straddling cultural studies and visual art, Esther completed an MA in Sociology and Equity Studies at the University of Toronto and studied Painting and Women's Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. Formerly a member of the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts (Toronto), she exhibits widely and is represented by La Petite Mort Gallery (Ottawa). In the fall of 2010 her practice was profiled on the BRAVO television program Star Portraits and in the summer of 2011 she was the recipient of the Telford Fenton Memorial Award in Painting at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, the largest juried outdoor art exhibition in Canada. Esther will be artist in residence at The Banff Centre (Banff, Alberta) for the month of March 2012. Her practice has been generously supported by grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.