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Patrick Cull and Barbara Hobot are Kitchener-based artists who have been collaborating since 2004. Apart from their solo practices, the duo have produced installations, sculptures, multiples and site-specific interventions focusing on the themes of landscape, place, and the supernatural world. The pair often draw on common stereotypes associated with Canadian identity and challenge contemporary constructs of nature.

Patrick Cull is a sculptor, painter and installation artist living in Kitchener, Ontario. He holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo. He periodically collaborates with fellow artist, Barbara Hobot, with recent exhibitions including: //Blue Blood//, York Quay Centre, Toronto (2008) and //Zoo Room//, Gallery 96, Stratford (2007). He has recently participated in a “Sculpture Showdown” as part of the Ontario Arts Council’s SpOtlight program. This summer, Cull presented an artist talk for Shad Valley enrichment program at the University of Waterloo. His work is represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto.

Barbara Hobot is a sculptor and installation artist living in Kitchener, Ontario. In 2005, she graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.A. in Fine Arts. She has received a number of commissions for her public art interventions, most recently from the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown, PEI. Her solo exhibitions include: //Stampede//, Cambridge Galleries (2009) and //Pelted//, Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener (2007). Recent group exhibitions include: //Wall Projects//, Peak Gallery, Toronto; //Blue Blood//, York Quay Centre, Toronto (2008); ...//with all the amenities...//, Durham Art Gallery (2008); and //Fibreworks//, Cambridge Galleries (2008). 