Current Exhibition
Violet Drake, Feeling Further
November 8 – December 14, 2024
Feeling Further is an exhibition of prints, poetry, and sculpture that explores metamorphosis and magical realism through a rural transsexual narrative. Using abstracted self portraiture, found material, and environmental photography, this work dreams of an alternative world where trans liberation and climate justice are conceptualized beyond systems of oppression.
Violet Drake gratefully acknowledge the financial support of ArtsNL.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Ignatius Baker, Belonging
January 31 – March 15, 2025
Belonging is a series of screen prints started during my residency at St. Michael’s Printshop in the fall of 2023. Belonging is about finding a sense of belonging through swimming with other trans people and allies in nature. Bodies of water bring together the trans and queer community, offering a place of healing, outside of the confining limits of the city. Away from the rigidity of institutions and their binaries, space is made to find easier company in each other. It is where I started to find confidence in my body after transition, a time when I felt vulnerable and like I no longer belonged. It is a space I returned to during the pandemic for calm and through which I connected to my queer and neurodiverse friends to find joy. I wanted to create a series that celebrates this love for pond swimming.
Past Exhibitions
2024
Tessa Graham, Home as Place, Home as Pattern
Kevin Melanson, Making Ends Meet
2023
Kayla Williams: Goddess of the Sea
Monica Ila: I Dream In Shapes and Shadows
Christeen Francis: Love Under the Patriarchy – Portraits
Eastern Edge x Artforce NL: Wake Up Inspired
2022
Charlene Denief: Walking Away From Yourself
Shazia Ahmad: Three Years, Two Gardens, One Feeling
Alex Antle: Njiknam (My Younger Brother)
Mural Honouring Essential Workers
2021
Dion Kaszas | Nlaka’pamux Blackwork: Tattooing for Transformation, Healing, and Adornment
Bruno Vinhas | When it Stopped
100 Mini Houses; A Downtown Exploration | Molly Margaret
Lily Taylor | Funk Dance for Self Defence
2020
2019
Jude Benoit | Diary of a e’pite’ji’j: hypervigilant love
John MacCallum | Forever Young
Michelle Sylliboy | Komqwejwi’kasikl
Benjy Kean | Not as lost as you think
2018
Ashley Hemmings | SOUVENIR DOCUMENTS
Ethan Murphy | Where the Light Shines First
2017
Virginia Mitford | Alluvium: To Wash Against
Emily Pittman | A House of Another Colour