Critical Distance Locations Saskatoon, SK

Bea Parsons is a printmaker, drawer, and painter, originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, now living and working in Montreal. Her practice has primarily focused on black and white monoprints and, most recently, coloured pencil drawings on archival paper.

Kate Whiteway is an independent curator from Saskatoon living in Toronto. Her most recent exhibition, In the Rough (The Plumb, Toronto, 2021), explored the healing crystal industry and its imbrication with theosophical symbolism, medical technology and labour organizing in the 20th century. Her curatorial projects look at the materialist and mythological lives of commodities, including crystals, flowers, and cosmetics.
Kate holds a Master of Curatorial Studies from the University of Toronto. She is the recipient of the 2018 Reesa Greenberg Curatorial Studies Award, the 2020 C Magazine New Critics Award and participated in the 2020 Momus Emerging Critics Residency.

A former theatrical designer and fibre artist, Cathryn Miller switched to the book arts in 1994. Under the imprint of Byopia Press, their paper and book works are held in private collections in Canada, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States; and in more than 30 public collections in Canada, the United States, and England. The output of Byopia Press ranges from hand bound journals, sketchbooks, cards, and calendars to limited edition books (occasionally produced in collaboration with other artists) to sculptural works. The latter are sometimes produced from recycled books.