RAW | Group Show

Tues Oct 8 - Sat Nov 2, 2024​​​

We have a NEW group exhibition RAW that runs Oct 8 - Nov 4, 2024. The theme Raw was largely inspired by my longtime love of Outsider Art/Art Brut, art created those on the fringe of society, those artists not formally trained., art made outside the academic tradition of art.

In a world of AI generated imagery, cheap mass production, drive for perfection, filters, this exhibition looks to celebrate the handmade. The use of found raw materials, natural and discarded, approaches to creative process that revel in the imperfections. Authenticity. Raw emotional exploration. Non-traditional art materials and substrates. Different perspectives. A direct approach to artmaking unbound by tradition. It is a coming together of a truly diverse group of Gabriolan artists from such different ways of working. 

11 Artists

Marcelle Glock | carol weaver | Tom Ainsworth | John Swinton| Denise Carson Wilde | Susan Hudson | Aryn Bowers | Christi York | Dave Nicholson | Valerie Whissell | Jonathan Hoskins

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Bringing raw wet clay to the local seashore for a purpose of making functional ware, with no tools other than what is naturally found to be there, is organically crude in practice and result. Memories of anciently produced erosion designs of sandstone are impressed in clay and captured forever using primitive firing methods.  - Marcelle Glock​​

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I have always found the journey of my drum-making intuitive, listening deeply through my hands and the raw materials to allow that which wishes to come through. The elements and materials speak through me and thus, as a spiritual practice and process.

Every drum and it’s voice are always unique.

- carol weaver

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Barely woven together. A mere sketch of a vessel. Deceptively simple looking, yet requires skill, time and patience. ’m really into these fragile, open weave, barely held together vessels lately. Highly impractical. Wild things. - Christi York
 

​This painting is about allowing one self to feel and to honour the contrasts within the experience of grief; the pain, the sadness, the dryness of solitude and humidity of tears, the cold and the warmth as well as feeling some glimpse of serenity and surrender. - Valerie Whissel

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Collected over decades, treasures from nature find their way to speaking together to make a tale of death and rebirth, using materials kept close to their natural state. - Dave Nicholson

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All are welcome!

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