Events
Art for the new year / Arctic Coasts: paintings and small works on paper
Water is Wide
North by Northwest
Oceans and ice: arctic light
Work from high arctic travels in Canada and Greenland in 2018 and 2023. Oil on linen, acrylic on panel.
Tim Robinson, an Irish artist/mapmaker wrote a description of experiencing the land that resonates deeply with my practice.
While walking the land, I am the pen on the paper; while drawing this map,my pen is myself walking the land. I wanted to short circuit the polarities of objectivity and subjectivity, and try keep faith with reality.
Sustainable cultivation, sovereignty, and climate remediation issues prompt my ongoing desire to “keep faith” artistically in various media with my experience of the arctic.
An awareness of arctic fragility and beauty, and the urgent need for climate response compel my works: a mode of response to move the heart to knowledge and action.
Women’s Art Association of Canada, Dignam Gallery: November 7 – 18, closing reception Nov. 18, 1-4pm
New solo exhibition: Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre, Oct.3-29, 2023. Opening, Artist present: Oct 15, 2-4pm
From Nature to Abstraction: Sept 29-Oct 29, 2022
This group exhibition explores Nature in many artistic forms at the Women’s Art Association of Canada, 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, ON.
OSA 150th Anniversary Exhibitions 2022
I participated in five Ontario Society of Artists Exhibitions 2022, our 150th anniversary year. These public galleries hosted juried and members’ exhibitions: Temiskaming Art Gallery, Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Art Gallery of Northumberland and the Lieutenant Governor’s Suites at Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario. It was a privilege to chair the Orillia exhibition at the Museum of Art and History, developing the curatorial focus of the exhibition.
Heritage Canada supported the publication of Breath. Heart. Spirit. The OSA 150 Years, available at the Art Gallery of Ontario bookshop and on the OSA website. I was the managing editor for the book, 204 pages, full colour illustration with essays by renowned curators and images from many of our artists. https://ontariosocietyofartists.org/osa-book-breath-heart-spirit-the-osa-150-years/
150 Years with the OSA
August 17, 2022
As Canada’s longest continuing art society since 1872, the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) is celebrating 150 years with a special members’ exhibition at the Orillia Museum of Art and History. On view now through September 2022, Conversations focuses on the theme and the anniversary yearbook title, Breath. Heart. Spirit.; it features newly created artworks by a group of OSA artists challenged to “interrogate, transform, reformulate, and relate to works by other historic OSA artists”. The group was invited to research, reflect and reimagine works of OSA members in relation to their own practice, each artist finding inspiration from the past as the basis for their new creation.
“Conversations require breath, heart, and spirit. The heart listens, the spirit learns, and breath supports life. Ideas pass from artist to artist, permeating culture and vice versa. We share and learn,” says Janet Read, OSA Chair: Conversations. “Connections abound through time between our current artist members and the rich legacy of the past. Some members are second generation OSA, while others are students of past notable artists and teachers.”
Want to learn more about the OSA, artists and their legacy? Check out their anniversary publication, Breath. Heart. Spirit. The OSA 150 Years, on sale now at shopAGO. Interested in seeing more works from the 150th anniversary exhibition Conversations? Browse through the online catalog here.
