Siobhan Humston

Ontario-based artist Siobhan Humston is the inaugural recipient of University of Victoria and Jeffrey Rubinoff Artist-Scholar Residency for 2025-2026. This residency is comprised of a six-week research period onsite at the sculpture park on Hornby Island, culminating in an exhibition and artist talk at the University of Victoria in October 2025.

Humston received her MFA with distinction in Art & Environment from Falmouth University in Cornwall, England, after completing a BFA in printmaking and painting from Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland. Originally from London, Ontario, she has participated in a series of international artist residencies, including two years at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, England, and a month at the Hugo Burge Foundation at Marchmont Estate, Scotland. Upon returning to Canada, she established her studio on the shores of Lake Huron, where her ongoing research into the intersections of environmental art, nature, spirituality, and science culminated in her solo exhibition In the Garden.

Siobhán’s artwork has been exhibited in over seventy solo and group exhibitions in commercial, artist-run and public galleries and is in private and corporate collections in North America, Britain, Europe and Australia. She is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation fellowship, a City of London Arts Bursary, Ontario Arts Council and BC Arts Council grants, a BC Arts Council Education Grant and most recently an Ontario Arts Council exhibition assistance grant for her solo exhibition ‘In the Garden of Exquisite Unknown’. She has been featured on City TV Vancouver & Calgary, the Vancouver Sun and CBC Radio’s Arts Report. Her most recent artist residency was with the Hugo Burge Foundation at Marchmont Estate, Borderlands Scotland in October/November 2024. Currently Siobhan is developing new work combining themes of nature, entanglement, music and synesthesia and in autumn of 2025 will be Artist in Residence with the University of Victoria and at the Jeffery Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.

During her upcoming residency, Siobhan intends to explore the entanglement of the human relationship to the natural world in conjunction with music and synesthesia.