December 8, 2018 - May 20, 2019

As a statement on the incredible number of artists working in Hamilton, including many who are newly arrived, the Hamilton Now exhibition is in two parts. The second phase, called Object, focuses mainly on sculptors. This large group exhibition offers fresh experiences of various material and conceptual approaches to the medium. Works include architectural explorations of place, hybridized clay sculptures, textile works and an interactive digital video project that incorporates a sculptural map of Hamilton.

DONNA AKREY | CHRISTOPHER REID FLOCK | HAMILTON PERAMBULATORY UNIT (HPU) | SVAVA THORDIS JULIUSSON | CARMELA LAGANSE | LAURA MAROTTA | TAIEN NG-CHAN

Shades of White
Group Show
July 20 - September 16, 2018
Opening: July 28, 2 - 4 pm

Upon entering a white-walled gallery filled with artworks made entirely of white materials and white images, we seem to be encountering a mischievous visual pun. Indeed, virtually all colour has been banished from this exhibition leaving a subtlety and nuance that beckons the viewer closer to see what elusive messages and motives are at play in the work of these eight artists: Becky Comber, Lois Andison, Gina Duque, Svava Thordis Juliusson, Kristiina Lahde, Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Nancy Anne McPhee, and Noelle Hamlyn.

Svava Thordis Juliusson
OUROBOROS, etc., (Bitter as Her Name)
May 12 - July 15, 2018
The objects in Juliusson’s practice emerge out of a kind of ritual, repeated until the artist feels she knows why or that there is enough. There is a confluence of ideas and actions within this new body of work, manifesting through the urgency of making and relies on the conceptual premise of the multiple as a way to both accentuate and blur the original source. The specific ideas are left similarly obscured, but Juliusson aims to articulate a response to the politics of today, and conversely the elusiveness of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), while also exploring a personal narrative and that is formless and unnamed.

Ouroboros, etc., (Bitter as Her Name) aligns, and challenges recent work within Juliusson’s practice, wherein she explores the tension that occurs when chance meets potential, through the manipulation of commonplace and industrial materials. Her studio investigations are purposefully intuitive; the sculptural objects that develop refer to the physical act of drawing a line in space, the substance of a particular colour, or the shape of an abstracted form. The process of attaching one thing to another until a familiar shape emerges coincides or collides with ideas around landscape, domestic spaces and physical gestures.

*Material Remains:

May 2018 – 22 Jul 2018
Drawn from the MSVU Collection, these works of art incorporate household textiles such as bedding, a tea towel, table linens and discarded clothing. The domestic references are embedded in works whose imagery also engages with gender politics and world events.

The various artists share a collage approach to composition, and their works display techniques ranging from assemblage, dying, printing and hooking to embroidery, appliqué, stuffing and stitching. Frances Dorsey, Nancy Edell, Svava Juliusson, Leslie Sampson and Anna Torma are the contributing artists. Dorsey’s Shot through the Heart is a recently acquired fabric assemblage that has not previously been exhibited.