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Lorraine Simms is a Montreal-based artist whose drawings from the ongoing series Shadowland faithfully represent the cast shadows of preserved animal remains. They were developed during residencies in the Mammalogy Departments of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, and the Redpath Museum in Montréal, where she was granted wide-ranging access to their vast collections. Working with animals considered endangered, or on the verge of extinction, she explored concepts of absence, empathy, and loss.