b. 1963, Antigonish, NS.
Colleen Wolstenholme’s work has the ability to engage and provoke viewers by piquing the social conscious. She’s a prolific artist with of an impressive oeuvre of intriguing art works ranging in mediums including jewellery, painting, sculpture, embroidery and digital collage. She is perhaps most well known for her jewellery and oversized plaster cast sculptures of pharmaceutical drugs. Colleen Wolstenholme received a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1986 from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and a Master of Fine Art in 1992 from the State University of New York, The College at New Paltz.