Découvrez le tapis forestier et plongez dans le royaume souterrain qui se trouve juste en dessous. Dans New Arboreal, l’artiste explore les phénomènes de la coévolution et de la symbiose. L’exposition présente une installation créée à partir de feutre et de fil de fer. Elle évoque des systèmes racinaires et des champignons micellaires. S’y imbriquent...
À cet égard, au hasard des lectures, le mot d’origine grecque meraki leur semble inspirant et approprié pour exprimer cette force et cet objectif. Bien qu’intraduisible, on pourrait paraphraser en se referrant à l’ardeur et à l’enthousiasme où nous sommes aspirés dans ce que nous façonnons, en rejetant la logique habituelle et les intérêts de...
We’re excited to announce that Mosaic 2025 is opening soon at the Trinity Art Gallery! From October 30 to January 13, come see one of Ottawa’s largest juried art shows featuring amazing works in a variety of media by Arteast members. Opening Reception: Join us on Thursday, October 30, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm to...
During a sabbatical year devoted to creative exploration, Lauren Michelle Levesque immersed herself in the slow, reflective processes of making. The resulting works, gathered under the title “the light we hold, the light we carry”, illuminate the quiet ways in which art-making brings meaning, care, whimsy, and a touch of magic into everyday life. Created...
Isabelle Gauvreau’s work has always focused on the human condition and, more specifically, on the interpretation of the female body through the development of a highly personal visual language. Her practice is inspired by a long lineage of women artists influenced by feminism, from the 1970s to the present day. This series is an emotional...
Marianne Feaver celebrates the natural world through colour and light. Fleeting moments of radiance – sunlight filtering through trees, the shimmer of water across a lake or the dancing highlights of flower petals – form the heart of her work. Her inspiration is drawn from the landscapes that surround her; the forest trails of the...
Experience the grand reveal of 'National Capital Legacy' The Salon Des Bananes is proud to present this special Artist Showcase, featuring Bhat Boy, one of Ottawa's most celebrated artists. Be among the first to see the reveal of Bhat's latest painting: National Capital Legacy - measuring an impressive 9 ft x 9 ft! The National...
Artist Statement As immigrants entering a foreign land, we all share the common desire to make our new country a place we can freely call home. We make efforts, from bringing our culinary traditions, to running enterprises that shape a nation’s economic future. As newcomers we do so with innovation, grit and determination. Our journeys...
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
