The Fossil Follies Exhibition

Illustration Other - Series

2024

Jordan Wieben, Calgary, AB
e: fossilfollies@gmail.com
w: fossilfollies.art

Program: Bachelor of Design in Character Design and Illustration
School: AUArts

Owner: Fossil Follies Children's Artist in Residence: Calgary Central Library Poster Illustrator: Vertigo Theatre, Lunchbox Theatre Performance Illustrator: Humainologie Exhibiting Artist: Fridge Gallery

The Fossil Follies Exhibition is an all-ages collection of paintings exploring themes of social anxiety using a cast of dinosaur archetypes inhabiting a fictional Belle Époque-era environment. The series employs the mythology of these extinct behemoths to explore the mental burden of an unspecified impending cataclysm through the mechanisms of humour and hindsight.