Bio

Bri Dyer, a visual artist in Tkaronto (Toronto), Canada, focuses on the beauty of overlooked moments in routine life. Her work explores themes of memory and the Everyday, often referencing photography. Dyer believes mundane moments hold the key to true joy, and their neglect strips life of its uniqueness. Using painting and photography, she contrasts fleeting snapshots with the layered, emotional depth paintings can provide. Though creation of the object, paintings become handmade portals into memories, adding context and symbolism. Her art bridges the present and past, recontextualizing images and embedding herself in their narrative. Through wet and dry mediums, Dyer celebrates neglected moments, inviting viewers to find significance in the mundane.

Artist Statement

Biggest Splash Wins is a painting from a broader series called And now, she picks up the pieces. The work reimagines fragmented childhood memories, weaving archival photographs with the introspection of adulthood. Photographs, while capturing fleeting moments, are incomplete—confined to their frames and stripped of context, leaving the mind to reconstruct what is absent. Dyer embraces this gap, using it as a space to piece together her own narrative, blending memory with interpretation.

The raw canvas serves as a metaphor for the mind—porous, impressionable, and open to transformation. Paint merges with the canvas fibers, turning the ephemeral nature of memory into a tangible object. Through this process, the photograph transcends its static form, evolving into a lived event, both in the psyche and in physical space.

Dyer’s art bridges memory and material, past and present. Her work transforms forgotten moments into objects with presence and depth, inviting viewers to reflect on the interplay between recollection and reinvention.

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