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
Join us for the opening reception of Preparing for the Potlatch on Thursday, May 30th, 5pm – 7pm!
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 Potlatch, an exhibition at GPAG 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.
Reception + Artist Talk: Friday, May 17th at 5pm
Exhibition dates: May 17 – June 15, 2024
We invite you to join us for the opening reception for Studies in Sentience, a multi-media exhibition by artists Biliana Velkova, Erika Mashig, and Sunshine Frère. Through feeling and sensing in her meditative print-making process, Erika Mashig makes visible the intangible. Through ancient folklore, Bilana Velkova invites us to delve into the past and connect with old creatures whose mythologies that once provided ancient communities with a way of understanding the world and their place within it. Sunshine Frère’s work exposes the impossibility of living in a bubble, and the challenges of understanding the interconnectivity of our world(s).
In her exhibition in the Main Gallery Ines Tancré uses photography to question the reality and truth of what we see. Born and raised in Germany, Tancré now lives and works on the Sunshine Coast. After gaining a PhD in Linguistics and Philosophy Tancré worked in a variety of fields during postings in Iran, Sierra Leone, Canada, Norway, Egypt, Germany, Italy, USA and Austria. As co-founder of the German American Artists she represented the group in Europe until coming to Canada in 2010. She has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions in Canada, Monaco, Germany, and America and has participated in group exhibitions in Canada, America, and Germany.
Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, May 4th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Exhibition Dates: April 19 – May 11, 2024
Reception + Artist Talk: Friday, April19th @ 5PM
Recreations of Myth and Spirit – Samantha Harrison
Life Drawing Exhibition – Brenden Harris, Brian McFayden, Bruce Edwards, Cathy Wickett, Charlene Stallard, Christel Evers, Cindy Riach, Claude Perrault, Darlynne Gehring, Devon Blean, Gabrielle Barrett-Lennard, Janice McFegan, Judith Miller, Kathy O’Brien, Kevin J. Wells, Louise Valentine, Nena Braathen, Pamela Lee, Paula O’Brien, Paula Sawadsky, Sandi McGinnis, Vicky Marshall
Join us for the opening reception of Reflections by Sibeal Foyle on Saturday, April 6th, 2pm – 4pm.
Reflections by Sibeal Foyle weaves together storytelling, memory, and reflection through line, colour, and movement, navigating the figurative and abstract. Sibeal Foyle is an artist from Salt Spring Island. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Ulster, Belfast, Ireland, and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary. Foyle was a senior instructor and Chair of the Fine Arts Faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and has served on the jury or board of several arts organizations in the Lower Mainland. She has participated in solo exhibitions across the Lower Mainland and in group exhibitions in BC, Alberta, Ireland, and the United States.
Join us on Saturday, April 6th, 2pm – 4pm to meet the artists behind Stories From Skins and Skirts. All are welcome!
Eleanor Hannan and Jane Kenyon are visual artists working primarily in textiles. Jude Neale and Elizabeth Dancoes are poets whose writings have informed and inspired Hannan and Kenyon’s works. Stories from Skins and Skirts in the Main Gallery demonstrates the myriad ways in which the artist and writer work together. That all four artists are women of a certain age is not a coincidence. Decades of friendship and artistic partnership have allowed them to persevere. Through mythology, narrative, figurative exploration, and abstract expression, they find themselves revisiting themes of autonomy.
Join us for the opening reception of our Youth Art Exhibition SHOUT OUT, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Sunshine Coast youth aged two to eighteen have been invited to submit their artwork for display at the Gallery. In addition to offering an inspiring body of work that represents the creativity of our community’s youth, this exhibition is also an opportunity for young people to experience what it is like to be a professional exhibiting artist at GPAG.
Meet the artists Tam Harrington (Fashion, A Complex Relationship) and Linda Suffidy (Strata) Saturday February 17th from 2 pm – 4 pm. We hope you will join us for conversation and light refreshments. All are welcome!
Tam Harrington is an artist and educator living on the Sunshine Coast. She is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice includes installation art, research, collaboration, assemblage sculpture and painting, drawing, photography, ephemeral art, fiber arts, and performance.
Linda Suffidy is a Vancouver based artist who has exhibited throughout the lower mainland, in Edmonton, Kelowna, Bulgaria, and Dubai. The enormity of time past and contemplating the countless generations of life that have come into being are themes explored in Suffidy’s artistic practice.
Meet the artist Ezmina Samaroo on Saturday Feb 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. Samaroo’s exhibition Distant Shores New Horizons tells of the artist’s journey from Africa to England to the prairies of Canada, ending with her settling on Canada’s west coast. An exhibition in celebration of Black History Month, located in Joe’s Lounge.
Born in Mombasa, Kenya with ancestral roots in India, Ezmina Samaroo spent many years in London, UK before finding her new home in Canada. Her artwork is inspired by the colors, sights, smells, sounds, and feelings of the changing landscapes and countries around her. Samaroo works primarily in oils whilst exploring a variety of other mediums. Her aim is to highlight the essence of the world as she sees it, through simplicity with a focus on shape, line and form.
Join us for the opening reception of Hiroshi Shimazaki’s exhibition The World As I See It on Saturday Jan 13th from 2 pm – 4 pm.
Shimazaki is a cultural geographer, a Professor Emeritus of international management, and self-taught landscape painter. Born in Tokyo and educated in political science, economics, and cultural geography in Japan and Canada, he has been a visiting professor/researcher at various academic institutions in Canada, Ecuador, Germany, Japan, Malaysia and Mexico. Landscape sketching is a traditional research tool employed in geographical enquiry and analysis; over the years, he has honed his artistic skills and developed many of these sketches into watercolour paintings. His brush is guided by a geographer’s mind, an artist’s skill, and a free spirit.
January 5 – February 3, 2024
Reception: Friday, January 5th (5-7PM)
The Friends of the Gallery (FOG) is our annual celebration of the creativity of our membership. This exhibition launches our new year, and features the work of members of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council. The exhibition is a long-standing community event that has spanned more than 25 years. Its aim is to involve the broadest range of local artists, to acknowledge the role of the arts in our community, and to celebrate the extraordinary diversity in materials, forms and approach. Artists are invited to submit one piece of art they have completed in the previous year to be shown in this group exhibition.
The Friends of the Gallery (FOG) is our annual celebration of the creativity of our membership. This exhibition launches our new year, and features the work of members of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council. The exhibition is a long-standing community event that has spanned more than 25 years. Its aim is to involve the broadest range of local artists, to acknowledge the role of the arts in our community, and to celebrate the extraordinary diversity in materials, forms and approach. Artists are invited to submit one piece of art they have completed in the previous year to be shown in this group exhibition.
Join us on Saturday, Dec 2nd, from 12pm – 2pm for conversation and light refreshments at the opening reception of Present Tense!
Present Tense is a celebration of the creativity of our members, as well as a fundraiser for local artists and for GPAG. Members have been invited to submit one original piece for this show in the Main Gallery and up to four pieces of tiny art in Joe’s Lounge (formerly the library lounge). This exhibition includes paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, sculpture, fibre arts, wood work, and much more!
Dec 1, 4-8pm; Dec 2, 11am-5pm. Here’s your opportunity to meet the maker of these amazing pieces. Friday evening enjoy beverages, treats and live music.
James will be in attendance both days.
Show runs to Jan 10, 2024. Mon, Tues & Wed – 12 – 6pm. Present in all its many meanings; to be in attendance, to give or bestow, to offer or view, to exist or occur now, a gift. This show is a rare opportunity for all members of the qathet Art community to share their recent work, in time for the holidays and to have their work for sale.
Join us on Saturday, November 4th, from 12pm – 2pm to meet the artist Claire Dibble, currently exhibiting In An Altered Landscape in the Main Gallery.
Beginning at the source of the Columbia River in southeastern BC and ending 3.5 months later in the ocean at Astoria, Oregon, this photographic series in the Main Gallery documents the artist’s solo kayaking adventure paddling down the 2000 winding kilometers of the Columbia River. Claire Dibble is a photographer, writer, and project-based artist living and working in Golden BC. She draws her artistic inspiration from time spent in extreme outdoor environments, working in a variety of mediums including photography, encaustics, textiles, and boatbuilding
‘I am Mountain’ There is a profound connection between motherhood and mountains. Both the trek into motherhood and the ascent of mountains are marked by sweeping shifts, overwhelming challenges, and moments of sheer awe. Through this work, I aim to celebrate the intricate dance between the nurturing, resilient spirit of mothering and the magnificent, enduring presence of mountains.
