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Michael Billington

*new* gallery exhibitions 2010

2008 Exhibitions
2007 Exhibitions
2006 Exhibitions
2005 Exhibitions
2004 Exhibitions
2003 Exhibitions

July 7 – August 1
The Spirit Of The Thing
Ana Flander, David French, Henna Kim, Iwona Kmiec, Eva Lewarme, Erin Loree, Kurt Rostek, Janet Stanley, Justin Steinberg
Curated by Kurt Rostek, this exhibition is an exploration of art that deals with spirituality. Does being spiritual have some loosely defined form of dogma? How is it practiced? Or is this just a way to avoid the matter of religion altogether?
Opening reception – Saturday July 10, 2-5pm

June 2 – July 4
Washi – Take a line for a walk
Gallery Members’ Show

Doug Adams, Beth Alber, Anne Barros, Susan Carr, Mary Corcoran, Martina Edmondson, Vanessa Li, Melinda Mayhall, Chris Mack, Kurt Rostek, Toba Shapiro, Wendy Shingler, Susan Wakefield, Lily Yung
Using Paul Klee as inspiration, the vision is simple. The idea is simple. We are “taking a line for a walk.” The line may run off our hands either giving or escaping form, broken or continuous, precise or free to go where it will. Above all, we will allow the line a will, be it ours, or its own.

“Take a line for a walk . . .”
                 Either in darkness
                 Or in the light of day
                 From birth to death
                 Don’t let it stay
                 by Kurt Rostek

Participating in The Japanese Paper Place’s June as Washi month
DRAWING ON WASHI
Opening reception - Saturday, June 5, 2-5

May 12 – 30
Eve – Woman on Water
Bill Filiou
Only woman gives birth to this world and through the fruits of her labour, gives joy to life. Because? Without women on this earth there would not be mankind at all. Throughout history women have been symbols of beauty and sexuality. But at the same time I captured women through my lens. Because I love them.
Eve is a concept that I created on storyboard first because I’ve always had the natural ability to draw. I am more than just a photographer.
Reception: Saturday May 15, 2-5pm

April 28 – May 9
Wild
Wilma Needham

Savannah Baboons are studied by primatologists to research the social behaviours that inform human relations and history. These digital images, conjuring up impressionist paintings, pose the fine art and craft tradition with the documentary. The images are an alternative to popular media, foregrounding a human stand-in, and investing meaning in the everyday life of a distant relative.
Participant in CONTACT 2010 Photography Festival
Reception: Saturday May 1, 2-5pm

April 15 - 25
Signs of Spring
Doug Adams, Anne Barros, Susan Carr, Martina Edmondson, Chris Mack, Vanessa Li, Melinda Mayhall, Wendy Shingler, Janet Stanley, Sue Wakefield

Doug Adams paints the colours of spring. Anne Barros uses sterling silver hockey sticks on recycled jerseys to suggest that spring = street hockey, while Susan Carr knits yellow, green or copper wire necklaces with beads purchased at sunrise from a boat on the Ganges River.

Martina Edmondson in “Sketches I –IV” is influenced by blue skies and longer days and her thoughts turn to what colours to wear. Vanessa Li creates a sculptural cocoon piece. Christine Mack turns the ordinary into art in her blue Cyanotypes of hanging laundry blowing in the wind.

Melinda Mayhall in “Time to Hit the links” presents her newest sculpture using a golf club, beads and artificial grass. Wendy Shingler’s cosmos spins away from winter into spring. Janet Stanley’s abstract painting expresses the vibrant, pulsing field of energy of the earth in all her springtime glory. Influenced by gardening in the California hills where she experienced gorgeous bindweed and snakes, Susan Wakefield displays a sculptural piece made from metal, beads, coral, and acrylic paint.

March 17 – April 11
Altared: A mixed media installation honouring our roots
Martina Edmondson and Monica Bodirsky

Edmondson and Bodirsky explore the evolution, preservation and alteration of narrative over time.
Reception: Friday, March 19, 5-7pm

February 24 – March 14
Uncovering – The Blanket Form
Noelle Hamlyn

The blanket form is one of the most basic of all human creations; it covers, it comforts, it warms and it celebrates. We are swaddled in it at birth and shrouded in it at death. When crisis or trauma strikes, the blanket is one of the first objects to be offered – considered essential to human survival.
Yet today the blanket is mundane and unrecognized. The intent will be to offer the opportunity to pause and consider the simplest of textile forms under which we conduct a great deal of our lives.
Closing Reception: Saturday, March 13, 2-5pm

February 3 – 21
WIRED
Susan Carr
Captivated and captured by wire. Books, necklaces, sculptures, and paintings are presented to create a 'wired' environment.
Reception: Sunday, February 14, 2-5pm

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