Hazel May Eckert

My interdisciplinary practice explores grief as an ongoing material and energetic process, where images, objects, and organic matter circulate like memory — transforming, decaying, and retaining presence over time. Drawing on my background in graphic design, printmaking, and publishing, I work across analog and digital technology to create works in print, installation, sculpture and artist books. Using collage as both a conceptual framework and a material strategy, I work with found images, lo-fi textures, glitches, and collected materials. The process of making becomes a mourning ritual itself, investigating how ephemeral traces and affective objects hold energy and embody memory. 

Hazel May Eckert is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based between Montreal, QC and Ottawa, ON. She is the creator of Nothing New Projects, an independent risograph print and publishing studio that focuses on producing artist-led projects and collaborative print-based works. Hazel received a BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University and a diploma in Graphic Design from the College of the North Atlantic. She is currently pursuing an MFA at Concordia University, Montreal. Her work has been presented in numerous group and solo exhibitions across Canada.

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