Annette ten Cate’s solo exhibition Wildly Sensitive features hand built, clay sculptures that reflect a deep connection to Alberta’s wildlife.
Procession of the Self is an exhibition by Matthew O’Reilly developed during his Year-Long Residency at the Medalta Clay Center in Medicine Hat Alberta.
An exhibition of works in clay by artist Ritchie Velthuis, Making of a Monument chronicles the process of creating SCTV Monument, a public artwork located in downtown Edmonton’s Ice District, and offers a proud reflection of an iconic Edmonton creation.
Artist Heather Shillinglaw, whose family is from the LeGoff Indian Reserve, honours the language of her nohkums and kookums (grandmothers) and weaves oral teachings inspired by the natural world. Shillinglaw incorporates the work of historians, scholars, and elders in her artwork, effectively turning it into cultural sharing, and rediscovering her roots to the land by using the philosophy and languages of her ancestors. Blending concepts of body, mind and spirit that become woven messages through her practice, Shillinglaw’s art evolves in her storytelling and re-telling of familial oral histories. Shillinglaw references aerial photographs of the landscapes depicted and recontoured in this exhibition taking a bird’s eye view: these are places of significance to Shillinglaw’s family history she assembles to “encourage us to remember, remember, remember.”
There was a reception with the artist in attendance on June 3, from 5pm to 7pm.
Read an Alberta Foundation for the Arts article featuring the exhibition.
(re)Form is a solo exhibition of works by Carissa Baktay on display at the Alberta Craft Council’s Discovery Gallery in Edmonton from March 19-April 30, 2022.
The exhibition unfolds over thresholds both physical and imaginary. Baktay’s process-based practice is deeply connected to material and memory in an attempt to understand memories of land (place) and home (body). By collecting, repurposing and transforming materials, she transforms their presence in space and presents a new poetic material understanding that shares the borders between art, craft and design.
Baktay is a multi-media sculptor, sharing her time between Iceland and Alberta. As an experienced glass maker she has earned degrees from Alberta University of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design and Universidade de Nova Lisboa. She uses experimental technologies and mediums combined with time honoured methods to make her work.
Join us at the Edmonton Discovery Gallery for Tissues, an exhibition of work from emerging artist, and recent graduate of the AUArts Fibre program, Adriane Vant Erve. Featuring an installation of mysterious, diaphanous sculptural works in silk organza, Tissues explores the delicate fragility of our human physiology. These luminous translucent objects softly glow and sway in the space surrounding them, gently activating the gallery environment.
