Current Exhibition
Drew Pardy, That’s Hot
September 1 – October 14, 2023
That’s Hot is an experiment in play, modeling after queer aesthetics of childhood and friendship. This interactive installation of quilts, each holding some tender, fiery, friendship-love, invites you to cuddle! Imagined softer futures are ablaze in this playroom.
Play can be a vessel to imagine new futures and find new pathways forward. It puts past and future anxieties on hold as we engage ourselves in the present. In this way, play helps us to sidestep fear and look for transformative alternatives to the present state of politics and society. In That’s Hot, we look at how piping hot the possibilities of play and the redistribution of care through soft and silliness really is.
To see photos from the exhibition and the opening reception, click here!
Drew Pardy (she/they) is an artist working in textiles, performance and installation based in St. John’s, NL. She received her BFA in 2019 from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. They use “radical silliness” as a vessel for change— exploring themes of labour, feminism, and queerness. This play is a way of taking care. Drew is one half of the friendship heart necklace that is HOT 4 THE MOMENT, a collective and loveship with Georgia Dawkin and is a member of TRUCK Collective with Annie Canto and Emily Neufeld. Drew has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Kevin Melanson, Making Ends Meet
February 2 – March 16, 2024
Luca Jesse Apel
March 29 – May 11, 2024
Past Exhibitions
2023
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