In Free or Best Offer, Sunshine Coast local Nicole (Nico) Arnett shares her pottery and photography that could best be described as the bits and trinkets you’d find in your pockets after a memorable trip.
Her photography collection comes from a regular habit of capturing small moments, objects and scenes that make the day to day colorful & her ceramics, whether functional or decorative, are companion creatures to these scenes, each going about a curious life of their own.
Free or Best Offer takes delight in simple details & invites us to do a double take on the ordinary things around us.
to Dec 22. Rivers of Connection/Pools of Separation explores the state of the human spirit on earth, entwined in community, yet searching for singularity. The shifting perspectives invite curiosity about when community connection might be essential and when self is most essential. Through complex, kinetic narratives, Jensen evokes a landscape of energy flowing in layers, transforming the unseen into vibrant visual metaphors. In both painting and sculpture her work reflects a sphere where forms are continuously reconfigured, inviting engagement with the world and self in a tactile, ever-changing landscape.
Join us for the Opening Reception of this exhibition on Saturday, Nov 30th, 2pm – 4pm; and for an Artist Talk with Jan Jensen on Saturday, Dec. 7th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome!
Join us for the Opening Receptions of two new exhibitions by Jess Hart and Jan Jensen on Saturday, Nov. 30th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Illustrating the interesting pathways of employment of a working artist, Jess Hart’s Places I’ve Worked features unique contemporary and abstract artwork depicting coastal and urban scenes in a dynamic style. Jan Jensen’s Rivers of Connection/Pools of Separation explores the state of the human spirit on earth, entwined in community, yet searching for singularity, through both painting and sculpture. Can’t make the Opening Reception on the 30th? Both artists will also be delivering an Artist Talk on Dec. 7th, 2pm – 3pm.
to Nov 24th. Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi’s exhibition Safar (A Journey) in the Main Gallery explores Iranian identity in a globalized world through four separate but linked series of work featuring drawings and sculptures. Modarres-Sadeghi’s works are autoethnographic, reflecting her lived experiences in Iran and Canada. Through her work she investigates the socio-cultural implications of hybridity as they relate to interethnic exchange and the globalizing process of travel and translation.
Join us for the opening reception of this exhibition on Saturday, Nov. 2nd, 2pm – 4pm; and for an artist talk with Mehran on Saturday, Nov. 9th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome to both events!
to Nov 24th. A series of digital paintings by Susan Harman in the Eve Smart Gallery that visually express the movement of transitional change using symbols and icons of the West Coast. Inspiration for the exhibition came at a point in time when Harman was surfacing from troubled waters, transitioning from a period of grief and learning how to navigate more freely in the world with sorrow as a new companion. Susan Harman is a photographer, writer, and painter living on the Sunshine Coast. Her style is a mix of abstraction and realism painted with a digital brush and her intention is to make art that has meaning, to write a visual story that might intertwine with the stories of others.
Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, Nov. 2nd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us for the Opening Receptions of two different exhibitions by Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi in the Main Gallery and Susan Harman in the Eve Smart Gallery. on Saturday, Nov. 2nd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi is an Iranian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC who explores Iranian identity in a globalized world through four separate but linked series of work featuring drawings and sculptures. Susan Harman is a photographer, writer, and painter living on the Sunshine Coast who uses digital painting and symbols of the West Coast to express her transition from a period of grief to learning how to navigate more freely in the world with sorrow as a new companion.
Join us for the Opening Reception of David Martinello’s exhibition Conversing Gestures on Saturday, Sept. 28th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Featuring abstract wood sculptures and prints combined with gestural markings, David Martinello’s exhibition in the Main Gallery highlights the beauty of wood, its intrinsic characteristics, and its role as a connective node to the environment. David Martinello is an artist from Mill Bay, Vancouver Island, who works with a variety of different techniques and mediums. Working with a multi-disciplinary approach along with conventional manipulations of wood Martinello discerns insights into the essence of the material. He explores its intrinsic properties, highlighting aspects of the medium that are often taken for granted or overlooked.
to Sept 22nd. An impressive collection of painted and drawn portraits by Maurice Spira spanning more than 40 years, many of which will be exhibited to the public for the first time. Spira conducts his portrait sessions live with no camera mediation used, and his hope with this particular exhibition is that it will inspire young artists to draw directly from life. His considerable archive of portraits often depicts local people in our community, some now deceased, but most very much alive. Spira goes one step further than replication of what the eye sees and undertakes an expressive examination of each subject. His portraits represent a balance between this expressive examination, reality, and truth.
Join us for the opening reception Saturday, Aug. 31st, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us on Saturday, August 31st, 2pm – 4pm to meet the artist Maurice Spira at the opening reception of his exhibition M. Spira Portraits. All are welcome to join us to learn more about this exhibition!
This exhibition features an impressive collection of painted and drawn portraits by Maurice Spira spanning more than 40 years, many featuring local members of the community exhibited to the public for the first time. Born in Kent, England, Spira came to Montreal in 1966, where he describes the psychoactive enriched counter-cultural milieu as having transformed him utterly. After painting in Mexico in the mid-seventies he moved to Vancouver and then to the Sunshine Coast in the early 1980’s. More than thirty years later he continues to paint and print in his Roberts Creek Studio.
Illustrating narratives around the history and life cycles of the North coast of BC, Jeff Wilson’s exhibition is inspired by his time spent immersed in the landscapes of BC’s coast during his 2023 Cassiar Cannery Long Art Residence. The North coast economy has long revolved around natural resource exploitation and trade, leaving the area susceptible to changes largely out of the control of its residents, and creating a particular and unique history of boom and bust economics. Wilson’s large scale acrylic paintings illustrate how this boom and bust pattern expresses itself in a natural and built legacy unique to BC’s coasts.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday August 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Watershed explores the primal landscapes of high mountain passes and headwaters, illustrating the awe inspiring yet fragile nature of these water towers and emphasizing the need to protect and preserve them. As life giving water falls as rain or snow it slowly accumulates in mountaintops as glaciers, gathering on the passes to flow as rivers, or collecting in alpine basins to feed small tarns and rills. Through acrylic paintings and 3D models Marczak finds a beauty and poetry in these small beginnings where life giving water falls and life starts, and calls for action to protect these vital resources in the face of climate change.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, August 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us for the opening reception of North By Northwest by Jeff Wilson on Saturday, August 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome to attend!
Illustrating narratives around the history and life cycles of the North coast of BC, Jeff Wilson’s exhibition is inspired by his time spent immersed in the landscapes of BC’s coast observing the particular and unique history and effects of boom and bust economics. Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Jeff Wilson trained as a structural geologist and worked in mineral exploration before settling in Vancouver. Working as a full-time artist since 2013, Wilson has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions throughout BC, Alberta, and Washington State, and in group exhibitions in BC, Washington State, and Italy.
Join us for the Opening Reception of Watershed by Suzan Marczak on Saturday, August 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome to attend!
Marczak’s exhibition Watershed explores the primal landscapes of high mountain passes and headwaters, illustrating the awe inspiring yet fragile nature of these water towers and emphasizing the need to protect and preserve them. Suzan Marczak has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Lower Mainland and in Quebec. Marczak holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and a Diploma in Studio Art from Capilano College. She is an avid hiker based in Vancouver who is creatively guided by the changing seasons, the light, the amazing forms and shapes, and the cycles of life in the backcountry.
Join us for the opening reception of Present Tense on Saturday, June 29th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome to attend to help us celebrate the participating artists and the creativity in our community!
Present Tense is a popular annual exhibition running June 27th – July 28th. All GPAG members have been invited to submit one piece of art in any medium or theme, including paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, mixed media, sculpture, fibre arts, wood work, and more! In addition to Present Tense in the Main Gallery and Eve Smart Gallery, artists have also been invited to submit up to six pieces of artwork to our Members’ Tiny Exhibition in Joe’s Lounge. Come check out both Present Tense and the Members’ Tiny Exhibition during the opening reception on the 29th!
Co-Curators Candace Campo xets’emits’a, a shíshálh artist and founder of Talasay Tours, Sandy Buck, a Métis artist and co-founder of Deer Crossing The Art Farm, plus collaborating artists and friends present Preparing for the Potlach, an exhibition at GPAG from May 30th – June 23rd. Preparing for the Potlatch is about coming together to explore art as community. The growth, expression and sharing of art is communal and a collective representation that also honours the person practicing art. If we support and celebrate the creation, the work of the artist, it is a gift we all receive, and the art as visual story is our story.
Opening reception and community barbecue: Thursday, May 30th 5pm – 7pm
Plus Virtual Artist Talk Aug 13, 2-3pm on FB.
3 textile artists from 3 different corners of the world explore what “this place” means to them. They explore the unique characteristics of where they live and work and their connection to these distinctive settings. @hedges.madeleine from Australia @edwinamackinnon from the UK, and Catherine Nicolls @ravensthread from Gibsons, Canada, each look at what connects them to their individual places, how they perceive and experience their environment and the emotional attachments of belonging to “this place”.
