about

Deborah Margo and Annette Hegel are collaborating, multi-disciplinary visual artists and urban gardeners, living in Ottawa. Our art practice is multidisciplinary, emphasizing the confluence of art, nature and science. It is also an expression of our strong conviction that artists serve as catalysts for questioning the meeting of current environmental and technological issues.

“Hegel and Margo are part of the growing group of ecologically-minded artists raising awareness about environmental issues, yet their installations provoke empathy, not fear. […] Hegel and Margo’s work is rooted in fostering long-term and wide-ranging thinking about climate change and its effects, rather than the short-term jolt experienced when looking at a sad picture of a starving polar bear.” (“On by the bee” – Michela Rife, By the Bee Exhibition Catalogue, 2019)

Over the past six years we have co-created and exhibited large scale sculptural/media arts installations addressing the effects of the Anthropocene on pollinators, and thus on food security, focusing on climate change as the biggest challenge of our time, most recently on “Apidictor Symphony I” presented at FieldWORK in Maberly, Ontario in 2017, and “Apidictor Symphony II” at “Grow Op 2018”, in Toronto, at the Gladstone Hotel and “by the bee” at Ottawa City Hall Gallery in 2019.