About the artist
Brie Adkins is an award winning artist and muralist with her most recent body of work spanning Alberta and Spain. Brie has been painting professionally since 2015 and in that time has hosted workshops, cultural events and propped up other women artists within her own gallery space.
Brie lends her artistic voice to the magic found in nature and across all disciplines promotes connectivity to natural elements. She aims to capture a moment of time we lose ourselves to the wonder of nature, or at least pause to consider it. There is an intentional touch of femininity that blankets all her work; having always worked in male dominated industries, as a machinist, oil worker and now muralist, Brie aims to be loud and graceful about the beauty and strength women bring to the table.
Through mural work Brie has raised over 10k for her local school’s art programs. She has changed landscapes of downtowns’s and helped businesses’s win beautification awards.
Brie advocates for art in rural spaces and has opened a free wall in the heart of Entwistle so that anyone can paint publicly and freely. Brie specializes in aerosol spray painting and acrylic painting.
Representation, interviews, publications, & features
Select pieces of the Ammolite Alberta series are found at the Heart of Edson Gallery
Interview about life as a rural muralist and visual artist.
Notes from hosts, Casa 3, about their featured artist at the residency space in 2022.
The Resilience Project is a initiative that includes 5 murals, a documentary, and a commemorative book in the Town of Edson
A video of the Ammolite Alberta Exhibition at the Okotoks Art Gallery
Video tour of the space with featured B.Adkins murals throughout.
Exhibition interview: Brie Adkins, Where to Find Magic, ran from May 13 – June 22 at the Naess Gallery, The Paint Spot.
Edmonton International Airport's gallery, Wild Skies, features the Ammolite Alberta Exhibition in their beautiful space. Full Video.
Events
Upcoming
solo exhibition - red brick art center, Edson, November 18-December 20
Entwistle School - Marble Drop Mural, mid April
Ward school of dance - Mural installation, mid April
old strathcona - crosswalk design, tba
alleykat brewing - label design drop, tba
Previous
Solo Exhibitions
2022 - Dichroic Alberta, Peanut Gallery Stephens Avenue,, Calgary, Alberta
2022 - Dichroic Alberta, Wild Skies Gallery, Edmonton International Airport
2021 - Small Changes Exhibition, Gossamer Gallery, Wabamun
2021 - Where to Find Magic, Naess Gallery, Edmonton
2021 - Ammolite Alberta, Okotoks Art Gallery, Okotoks
2019 - Ammolite Alberta, Spruce Grove Art Gallery
2019 - Ammolite Alberta, Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton
2019 - Ammolite Alberta, Multicultural Centre, Stony Plain
2018 - Ammolite Alberta, Gossamer Treasures Gallery, Wabamun
2018 - Spirit Agate, Valley Gallery and Framing
Group Exhibitions
2023 - Reveal Group Exhibition, Gossamer Gallery
2023 - Josh’s Harnack's Train of Thought, Creative Hive, Edmonton
2023 - Garden Art, George Pegg Botanical Gardens
2022 - Reveal, Group Exhibition, Gossamer Treasures Gallery
2021 - Reveal, Group Exhibition, Gossamer Treasures Gallery
2020 - Open Juried Show, Spruce Grove Art Gallery
2020 - Reveal, Group Exhibition, Gossamer Treasures Gallery
2019 - Members Juried Show, Spruce Grove Art Gallery
2019 - Reflections; Group exhibition, Vignettes Design Festival – Special Projects Artist
2019 - Night of Artists, Enjoy Centre, St.Albert
+ Publication in Night of Artist National magazine
2018 - Fur, Feather and Fauna; Group Exhibition, Spruce Grove Gallery
2018 - Culture Days; group exhibition, Valley Gallery and Framing
2018 - Wild Inside; Group Exhibition, Multicultural Centre Stony Plain
2018 - Open art competition; Spruce Grove Gallery
2018 - From Earth to Sky; Group Exhibition at Naess Gallery, Edmonton
2018 - Juried Members Show; group exhibition, Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove
2018 - Envision; group exhibition, RAW Showcase Calgary
Public Art Installation Collection
2024 - Prairie Portal, Strathcona County Office, Strathcona County
2023 - Self directed murals in Entwistle Free Wall Tunnel
Mural studies; Roses, Pink Crow, Beetlejuice, Owls and Bear, Einstein
2023 - Officially opened Entwistle’s Free Wall
Hosted Entwistle School students in tunnels over two days to paint
2022 - LaFabrica Art Living Space Residency;
Baltimore Oriole, Mural, Alicante, Spain
Good Luck Gecko, Mural, Alicante, Spain
Bacchus, Dolores, Spain
Sunset Views, Almoradi, Spain
Sealife, Not Seafood, Dolores,Spain
2022- Polopos Art Residency;
Owl’s Enemy - Granafest, Granada, Spain
Figs and Feathers, Polopos, Spain
2022 - Switzer Drug Mural, The Town of Edson, Commemorate Canada, Heritage Canada as part of the ‘Resiliency Project’
2022 - Painting the Pembina 2.0. Telus, Evansburg
2021 - Bison Mural Project – Drayton Valley, Local Collective
2020 - Painting the Pembina -Self directed mural, J.D. Read Memorial building, Entwistle AB
2020 - Food Diamond, Entwistle Food Bank, AB
2020 - Learning to Share, Vegreville Tourism
Private Art Installation Collection
2024 - Entwistle Eagle Mural Maze, Entwistle School, Entwistle
2024 - Mountain Roads, Spinfinite, Spruce Grove
2023 - Spooky Skeleton, Canvac, Drayton Valley
2023 - 75th Anniversary Diamond - Gelmici Jewellery, Edson
2023 - 7 Demolition Derby Cars Painted, Jesse Ross - Barrhead & Rimby -Best Dressed Award
2023 - Mountain Flower - Edson Continuing Care
2023 - Bearhead Sisters -Gossamer Gallery, Wabamun
2023 - ‘One in a Million’ - XL Cowboy boot installation, Westernener Foundation, Red Deer
2023- Mountainside Mural, Drayton Valley Hospital, Drayton Valley Health Foundation
2022 - Birds on a Line - Urban Bird, Edmonton
2022 - Conspiracy Cafe - River Spot Cafe, Entwislte
2022 - Sexy Icecream, Jennie’s Icecream, Edson
2021 - Enchanted Forest, Entwistle School Library
2021 - Heritage Train, Iron Wheel Inn, Entwistle
2021 - That 70’s Mural, Mike the Mechanic, Peers
Residencies
September 1- November 15 – La Fabrica Art Living Space, Alicante, Artist Residency, Spain
November 15- October 1 – Casa 3, Polopos Artist Residency, Spain