2025 Artist in Residence
October 4 - 29
Born in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal and raised on the island of Noepe / Martha’s Vineyard, USA, Margaret Joba-Woodruff is an artist currently based in St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk / Newfoundland. Joba-Woodruff’s practice considers intersections of land, body, labour, and family through a multidisciplinary approach to printmaking. Using techniques of drawing, installation, and sculpture, her practice pursues printing as a performative site to reveal the failings of language, narrative, and memory.
After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia in 2020, Joba-Woodruff became a worker-owner of the Vancouver Artist Labour Union Cooperative. In 2022, she was awarded the Don Wright Scholarship at St. Michael’s Printshop, in St John’s, Ktaqmkuk where she installed her first solo exhibition, Clean Yard Tidy House, in October 2023. Joba-Woodruff’s work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, and her prints have been shown in Canada, the UK and Taiwan. When she is not behind the wheel of an etching press, you can find her looking for the people and places that feel like home.