September 2025
Shellsong
Celebrating the Canadian Country Music Awards in Kelowna, September 10th-13th 2025
Animated Exhibition at the Kelowna Community Theatre Urban Screens
Shellsong was created in celebration of the Country Music Awards arriving in Kelowna, channeling the Okanagan’s unique character into a meeting of music, nature, and imagination.
At its heart, the animation explores connection through music: a cowboy strums his guitar for a turtle, their exchange framed by the valley’s textures of water, stone, flora, and tumbleweeds. The looping rhythm reflects continuity, tradition, and renewal, echoing the cycles of both music and nature. Ultimately, the work celebrates the harmony that emerges when human creativity listens to and honours the natural world.
Artist Biography
Kailee Fawcett is a digital media artist and recent graduate from the Bachelor of Media Studies program at UBC working at the intersection of film, animation, and interactive media. She layers textures to merge the digital with the physical, transforming surfaces into emotional landscapes that shape perception, memory, and identity. Drawing from her background in Theatre and Environmental Studies, Kailee creates immersive projects that bring social and environmental narratives to life through innovative forms of storytelling. Her work often plays with distortion and immersion, creating spaces where the familiar and the surreal collide.
