About this Event
The Art Gallery of Mississauga welcomes you to the opening reception of our next exhibition, featuring works by Cathie Jamieson and Jill Price.
Curated by Shannon Anderson, AGM Senior Curator
We welcome you to celebrate these artists at our opening reception. Refreshments will be provided. Registration is recommended but not required.
About the exhibition
This collaborative project brings together Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation artist Cathie Jamieson and Barrie-based artist Jill Price. The land-based practices that inform Jamieson’s work inspire a series of installations using natural materials such as tree bark and branches, plants and florals.
Carefully harvested by Jamieson in alignment with natural laws, these materials bring elements and gestures connected to the artist’s healing workshops into the gallery space. Price’s work considers methods of unmaking systems of harm rooted in Euro-colonial aesthetics and global industrial capitalism. Her sculptural installations derive from discarded materials she has collected along Ontario shorelines, which are then cleaned, reused, recycled and repurposed. Informed both by a childhood spent along the shores of Lake Ontario and by a sense of ecological urgency, her work considers how, in the artist’s words, “environmental harm is not abstract but deeply intimate and shaped by daily consumption and discard.”
Together, Jamieson and Price will also develop a collaborative installation that inspires care and repair toward the land, building visitors’ connections to natural laws. The exhibition as a whole considers how artists can create with more ecological sensitivity, and soften the hard edges of the “white cube” gallery to generate receptive spaces for Indigenous and environmental practices.
We gratefully acknowledge the support and generosity of our funders: the City of Mississauga, Canada Council for the Arts, TD Bank Group, Rama Gaming House and Charitable Gaming Community Good.
Jill Price would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Dr, Mississauga, Canada
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