- The Show at ECU

Installation

Abigail Raine Balisky

Rock Me

2026 | Human hair, found cradle, embroidered textile, sand, oyster shells and cotton | 15ft x 6ft x 6ft

A cradle sits upon a midden, “rock me” she whispers.

With All My Heart

2024 | Confession kneeler, beaded textile, collected earth, framed collage | 10ft x 7ft x 13ft

Experimental Communion

2026 | Communion cups and tray, collected earth, teeth and beaded cloth | 40cm x 7cm

Just East of Salvation

2025 | Performance and poetry

Abigail Raine Balisky

Abigail Raine is an artist by birth and by trade. Her work dances with themes of the Holy, relationality, ephemera, nostalgia, and the silent moments between these things. Born and raised on Commercial Drive, she paints, collects, assembles, writes and dances on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.