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Join artist Reilly Knowles to discuss his work, including Magic Circle for Earth Communion, a large textile artwork made in response to an illustration in an appendix of a 2008 edition of The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses (an influential handbook of magic used by settlers in Waterloo County as late as the 1950s). Occurring on the grounds of Museum London and in partnership with the museum’s Art Now! Program and Ontario Culture Days, this talk will explore subjects which inspired the artwork, including folk magic and the reformulation of our relationship to land. Reilly Knowles (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist living in London Township, Treaty Six territory (London, Ontario). His work explores supernatural stories and traditions from the settler cultures of Southern Ontario in order to reimagine settler relationships to the stolen Indigenous lands on which he lives. His intent is to foster a less violent and more meaningful connection with the land through traditions of storytelling and the fantastical. A Western University graduate (BFA), Knowles has exhibited with Forest City Gallery, Jordan Art Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Park Community & Cultural Centre and Good Sport Gallery, of which he is a member.
Magic Circle for Earth Communion by Reilly Knowles is commissioned as part of Ontario Culture Days' Creatives in Residence series and presented in partnership with Museum London.
More info: https://onculturedays.ca/creatives-in-residence/reilly-knowles/
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Museum London, 421 Ridout Street North,London, Ontario, Canada
