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Winnipeg Free Press: Pulling focus Through, and through a green, green lens

November 5, 2025 — 

If there’s a seed from which Sarah Ciurysek’s artistic practice sprouted, it’s buried deep in the dirt, under a willowy canopy, on her family’s grain farm near Peace River, Alta. “I have more of a familiarity or comfort with being outside, just lying down on the ground. I always had a desire to put my hands in the dirt or just lie down in the grass,” says Ciurysek, an associate professor in the School of Art at the University of Manitoba.

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