Current and Upcoming 2024 Exhibitions
The Banquet Years:
Ted Fullerton, Will Gorlitz, John Kissick, Stu Oxley, Martin Pearce, Cheryl Ruddock
April 5, 2024 - June 2, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5, 2024 @ 7:00 pm
Six prominent artists and art educators from the Guelph area bring their distinct painting approaches to the table. Brought together over dinner party discussions that invariably included studio visits, this assembly of artists serve up a full spread of paintings that range from representational and figurative works to compositions of atmospheric and poetic abstraction.
Chapters Now Through Four: Tracy Root
April 5, 2024 - June 2, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5, 2024 @ 7:00 pm
Born in Shrewsbury, England, Tracy Root arrived in Chatham-Kent just before the COVID pandemic. Impacted by the isolation she was experiencing, she quickly adapted to the area’s surroundings, instinctively painting its fields and fauna. With her trademark use of expressive symbolism, she creates images resonant with personal iconography and psychology.
This retrospective suggests the incredible commitment and production this artist has achieved throughout her career. Now living with Stage 4 cancer, “Chapters Now Through Four” reflects a life fully committed to the pursuit of painting, and an artistic trajectory that lands firmly in the present.
Past 2024 Exhibitions
The Blue Afar: Amanda McCavour
January 26, 2024 - March 24, 2024
Opening Reception: January 26 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM | during Winter ARTcrawl
Artist Amanda McCavour uses thread to create sublime installations of embroidered objects in space. Her fantastical, dreamlike environments consider the play of light on matter and the peculiarities of the natural world. In Far Away Blue Fields, McCavour permeates our visual field with a cloudburst of blooming flowers hung from the gallery’s ceiling by tiny thread. Affixed to the wall, The Horizon, the Ocean, the Sky features a gathering of leaves, weeds, birds, and bees that read like an immense biological archive. Both installations speculate on the colour blue. Not only is our physical environment composed of blue things like water, gemstones, minerals, and flora but blue is also associated with the textures of the human condition. In McCavour’s work, it is used to express the infinitesimal breadth of our emotions and shapes our relationship to the earth and sky above.
Fragile: Handle with Care
January 26, 2024 - March 24, 2024
Opening Reception: January 26 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM | during Winter ARTcrawl
This exhibition explores issues of fragility and preservation in the artworks of the Thames Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection. From there, however, it also delves into how historical and contemporary artists alike explore the experience of fragility in their practice. Fragile: Handle with Care showcases works ranging from delicate pieces on paper to robust material presentations, all concerned with what is most tenuous, immediate, and ephemeral within manifestations of the artist’s imagination.