Wall Space Gallery x Interval House of Ottawa Purchase advance tickets! Or pay at the door (suggested minimum donation of $10) Join us for an inspiring evening celebrating local creativity and community impact at Wall Space Gallery’s TwelvebyTwelve, a large-scale group exhibition featuring square-foot artworks and jewellery by more than 50 Canadian artists. This annual event offers...
Featuring more than 150 works from the early 19th century to the present, this exhibition brings together Indigenous, Canadian settler and European perspectives on the subject. Winter Count delves into concepts of tradition, identity and heritage as it explores how individual artists engage with winter motifs through objects, paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Historic...
Drawing on the rich collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Camera and the City brings together the work of a wide range of photographers who have captured the spirit of city streets. Sylvia Safdie: TERRA examines the decades-long career of Montreal-based artist Sylvia Safdie through a selection of her paintings, sculptures and videos. Thursday,...
Mirrors serves as a conceptual lens for this body of work, extending beyond literal reflection to consider how experience, perception, emotion, and interaction are mirrored through the act of painting. The works emphasize response as a central principle, where gestures unfold in relation to prior marks and material conditions, much like the effects of our...
Shaelynn Tredenick The Weight of Quiet February 5 - 24 Vernissage: Thursday, February 5, 5:00 - 8:00pm Tredenick Artist Statement The Weight of Quiet: An exploration of stillness, tension, and emotional restraint. I feel compelled to scan – drawn to preserving fleeting moments before they disappear. My work does not begin with a fixed narrative, but...
Opening: Thursday, February 5, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Faces of Passage: A Gilded Tapestry of Hybrid Ethnicities is a portrait-based multimedia exhibition exploring unique identities shaped by movement and cultural exchange. Inspired by Canada, travel, and Eastern European heritage, hand-crafted gilded portraits merge global patterns and contemporary forms, reimagining ethnicity as fluid, relational, and continually...
Galerie Old Chelsea is pleased to present the artworks by the art students from Symmes School and D’Arcy McGee High School in Aylmer. About ten years ago, Galerie Old Chelsea approached a local Chelsea school to invite them to work on art during the year, culminating with an exhibit at the Galerie. Both the kids...
FEB 14, 2-5pm - A VERNISSAGE to meet the award-winning photographer, Danielle Barabé-Bussières - Master of Photographic Arts (MPA), and view her beautiful art photography featuring birds, nature and landscapes. Enjoy wine, cheeses and other treats while talking to Danielle about her work. Danielle is an accredited member of the Professional Photographers of Canada, twice...
Everyone’s life is worth telling. We all have a story whose chapters address various subjects: fears, doubts, moral dilemmas, obstacles, but also encounters, friendship and love. In fairy tales, the perilous forest journey allows the main character to mature, enriched by trials and life lessons, and by the friendships forged along the way (see B....
Mary Gourlay’s work emerges from an emotional and physical immersion in the natural world, responding to the power, fragility, and temporality of landscape. Exploring remote environments by canoe, kayak, and on foot, Gourlay creates sketches, small paintings, and photographs that capture fleeting moments of encounter. These fragmentary records form the basis for larger studio works...
Sinclair A. Maloney presents: Rise – a focused selection of landscape and seascape paintings. With a professional background in photography spanning 15 years, his work is informed by a strong sense of composition and a keen observational eye. Influenced by 19th-century painters such as Corot and Courbet, and often compared to Turner for his atmospheric...
Vernissage: Saturday, February 28, 2 to 4 pm For International Women's Day, Galerie Old Chelsea is proud to present a photographic and documentary exhibition by Taimi Tovar. This initiative celebrates the presence of women in the arts, whether they are painters, musicians, architects, researchers, or cultural builders. Born out of a shared desire to highlight...
Artist Joy Kardish explores the essence of stillness –the purest and most irreducible quality of the photo-image. Inspired by the enduring prints of early masters like Alfred Stieglitz, Kardish blends painstaking historic photography techniques such as cyanotype, with contemporary media to create works that seem to transcend the flow of time and cut through its...
Another Cycle presents paintings and mixed-media works exploring the intersection of the human body and nature through surreal atmospheres and organic textures. Dinho Bento reflects on belonging, shelter and transformation, inviting viewers into a poetic dialogue about identity, emotional connection and the cyclical essence of existence. As a Brazilian artist based in Canada, Dinho Bento merges...
“Naturally Canada / Naturellement le Canada” is a dynamic exhibition of mixed media artwork inspired by the vast and diverse nature of Canada. The collection features works that range from abstract interpretations to detailed representational pieces. Each artwork demonstrates a visible integration of mixed media and/or mixed techniques—combining materials such as paint, collage, texture, found...
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Lenni Workman - Artist Statement My work is a Request. A request to the viewer to look and look again, don’t stop at superficial information. A request to notice how time and light transform your visual world. Experience that a still-life or a room acts as a sun-dial. A request to see the alignment of the...
March 26 to May 5, 2026 Opening: Thursday, March 26, 5:30 to 7:30 pm By looking at her role in society as a woman, wife, mother, and artist, Ada Brzeski has created a series of clay sculptures exploring womanhood, addressing the everyday realities and frustrations women face. Through these works, she hopes to foster a...
Le photographe Valérian Mazataud a recréé, avec des citoyens de son quartier de Montréal-Nord, des scènes de la vie quotidienne d’autrefois. Il a fouillé des archives photographiques et des albums de famille pour ensuite, lors d’ateliers, reconstituer ces photos en imaginant un univers à la croisée des époques et des cultures. Près d’une centaine de...
Galerie Old Chelsea is thrilled to present a series of new paintings by Andrew Rucklidge, an internationally recognized artist now living in Chelsea. The exhibition captures the invisible yet deeply familiar forces that shape the earth over time as Rucklidge draws on processes such as erosion, sedimentation, metamorphism, volcanic eruptions, exposed faults, and slipping terraces....
Still*life is not a meditation on fruit bowls or porcelain vases; it proposes a dialogue between breath and silence, between the pulse of existence and the hush of its surroundings. These paintings have emerged from the experience of living surrounded by nature—a life steeped in forests, rivers, and the quiet choreography of seasons. They are...
Nicole Allen | From the ground up Kaitlin Johnson | Falling Back Into Bloom Crystal Beshara | WILD HEART Tapestries: Portraits from the Forest & Garden Exhibition Dates: April 11 - 25 Vernissage: Saturday, April 11 at 3 - 5 PM
The Kanata Civic Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to a special off-site exhibition, “Farther Afield”, opening this Saturday, April 25th, at the Carleton Place Gallery. This time, we’re taking things a little farther afield. For this exhibition, 29 artists are stepping outside our usual Kanata home and bringing their work to the Carleton Place...
Galerie Old Chelsea is thrilled to welcome Chelsea’s Reid McLachlan with “A Murmuration of Whispers”, a compelling new body of work that offers a rare glimpse into his creative process. McLachlan’s paintings begin not with images, but with words. Whether fragments, phrases, or complex thoughts, his visual language emerges from an incessant, shape-shifting murmuration of internal...
The Fourth Annual West End Sculpture Show runs from April 28 through to May 10 at the Kanata Civic Art Gallery (John G. Mlacak Centre, 2500 Campeau Dr, Kanata). This is a juried exhibition showcasing contemporary sculpture in stone, metal, wood, and mixed media made by sculptors from across the National Capital Region. Free and...
In Two Sisters, Mary Ellen Mueller Legault and Deborah Mueller Peate bring together two distinct yet complementary artistic voices shaped by family, creativity, and imagination. Mary Ellen’s playful watercolours capture the beauty of everyday scenes through vibrant colour and spontaneity, while Deborah’s imaginative mixed-media works combine textiles, collage, and vintage elements to create expressive “Whimsical...
Bryna Cohen - Artist Statement Painting remains central to my practice, even within the vast range of contemporary art. It is how I chose to express the beauty I see. Flora and vegetation have their own allure and vitality. Each painting begins with an emotional or sensory response to nature and evolves gradually on the...
Galerie Old Chelsea is pleased to present a new exhibition by Sarah Bradfield a National Capital Region artist whose latest body of work explores the dynamic relationship between landscape, movement, and light across Ottawa and the Outaouais.
Patti Lefebvre is an Ottawa-based visual artist at The Rectory Art House and a graduate of the Ottawa School of Art. Her practice includes painting, printmaking, and collage, exploring the evolution of images and meanings in contemporary culture influenced by media, consumerism, and fashion. She has exhibited in Ontario and Quebec. Between the Noise explores how meaning changes in...
Wall Space Gallery is excited to host AND THEN, IT’S NOW, a new body of work by oil painter Stewart Jones. The exhibition brings together paintings inspired by the quieter edges of the city and the shifting light and shadows found between buildings and alleyways. Through unexpected viewpoints and confident brushwork, Jones captures everyday urban...
