As an artist I have always strived to use my own voice and experience as a reference for my artwork. I grew up in a rural Ontario town. As a child and throughout my adolescence, I often struggled with finding the line between rules, routines, and compulsive behaviours that felt out of control. Often creativity, whether through craft, writing, or art, felt like an outlet, a time where worry was taken from the forefront of my mind.

Even in spaces we understand as safe, we hesitate to soften. With people we trust and admire, we resist softening or allowing them to soften. With the intent to protect ourselves and others, we remind them to stiffen up and remain ‘resilient.’ It's perceived as distasteful to accommodate, empathize, and love traits essential and inherent to people’s existence. The softness of these actions, accused as counter-productive, allows a freer and more grounded experience, permitted

wo Bodies Converge in Felt consists of three colourful, eclectic felt collages that visualize the textile intersection of Gwyn’s interest in still life and Celeste’s process of simplifying forms and patterns from life. We simplify objects in our homes into flat symbols on felt, translating the everyday into foldable, modular shapes to be repeated and combined through collage. We amass large collections of flat objects cut from factory felt, from which we gather felt objects

In preparing for this show, I took on the challenge of sticking to a cohesive series with a common theme. Generally, I find myself jumping from one idea to another as inspiration strikes, so this was a significant test for me. As I wrestled with the self-imposed limitations, I, like many others, I also acknowledged the need to step back from constant news updates and social media interactions relating to the tumultuous state of global politics. To say the past five years have

"Lyccrophylli is an ongoing collection of various series of abstract works.    This collection is built on a foundation of separating the conception and material understanding of a work of art. I typically begin my work by asking questions concerning how I can choose to surrender control in any given expression. My “constraint” is to see how much control I can surrender while granting liberty to the materials themselves. I am attracted to the element of chance and working i

Wound is a series of works navigating the aftermath of my father’s death, created during my thesis year at OCAD U....

ANNA GOLDING romanticizes her own labour. She finds increasingly meticulous and difficult processes of making, searching for the edge of...

These family portraits are a testament to the importance of remembrance and the fragility of stories...

My love letter to butches and mascs. Ray Fleming is an interdisciplinary artist working out of Guelph and Hamilton...

Jessie Buchanan is an Anishinaabe Kwe artist whose work is rooted in flow, spirituality, and ancestral connection.

"I live in two states of being: together, and apart. Often, I find myself acutely aware of the thin veil of time that rips me from moment...

My Favourite Things is an exhibition that showcases not only my favourite works but also the ideas that inspire me most. Including themes...

Featuring works from Melissa Brunner, Jessie Buchanan, Chanel DesRoches, Nancy Farrell, and Kayla St-Pierre.

Wreckage debuts an ongoing Woodcut series made up of heavily remixed and edited collages that are engraved into plywood....

Connect is a celebration of the profound bond between humanity and nature, where the beauty of the natural world is reflected through the...

There is something to be said about the peaceful feeling you get when you look up and see the clouds moving, feel the wind shifting and....

Longing is a meditation on memory, disconnection, and the pursuit of peace amid the chaos of modern life. Katherine Percival reflects....

Dear diary, I am remembering big park where mom carved sun rays into the wood chips and October 31st when dad followed my sister and.....

Repetition is tedious. Repetition can be freeing. As artists, doing the same thing repetitively does not necessarily yield identical....

These are the illustrations for a science themed alphabet book. Each page explores a topic that I was interested in learning more about....