Welcome and thank you for your interest in my work. My name is Linda Mullen and I am the owner + creator of Grace & Diggs. Grace & Diggs is my art studio and is the best expression so far of one of my favourite things to do: create large and small things out of re-purposed items. It intrigues me to be thinking about this series of questions: Here is this thing that I found. What else could it be? What can I make from it?
I grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and was lucky enough to have parents who took me to a cottage on a lake and let me and my feral friends run wild in the surrounding countryside. We built forts & treehouses, invented stories to animate them, made all sorts of props from items that we found (or swiped from home). In a sense, this is all I have ever wanted to do.
Along the way I have practiced architecture and teaching and find these professions feeding current pursuits in helpful ways.
I grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and was lucky enough to have parents who took me to a cottage on a lake and let me and my feral friends run wild in the surrounding countryside. We built forts & treehouses, invented stories to animate them, made all sorts of props from items that we found (or swiped from home). In a sense, this is all I have ever wanted to do.
Along the way I have practiced architecture and teaching and find these professions feeding current pursuits in helpful ways.
ABOUT THE NAME
Originally, Grace & Diggs was going to be a shop that sold handmade items for the home. I loved the term, "grace" in all its forms and wanted to tap in to it in reference to a graceful home. I also love the seventies term for home, "digs" (as in, "welcome to my groovy digs, man). These days as I navigate the choppy waters of being my own boss and making many mistakes along the way, the name takes on other meanings. Life throws you digs! I strive to meet them with equal measures of laughter, delight, grit, and grace.