Harold Mortimer-Lamb

The Art Lover

Who was Harold Mortimer-Lamb? The first to write about A.Y. Jackson; the leading pre-WWI Canadian art photographer; and father of Molly Lamb Bobak. He was a patron of Frederick H. Varley; associate of photographer John Vanderpant; neighbour of Lawren Harris; and friend of Jack and Doris Shadbolt….

Crossing Terrain

Isabelle Hayeur, Jon Sasaki, Jodie Mack

With media art from across the country, Crossing Terrain starts at home but expands across and outside of Canada, beginning with Ottawa’s Penny McCann followed by Victoria’s Rick Raxlen….

Part of My Past

Objects as Identity

Curated by Adjunct Curator of Decorative Arts Patricia Kidd | Founders Gallery

Using artifacts drawn from more than 30 Victoria homes and collections, this exhibit will be equal parts object and story. Everything from rare maps, to an extraordinary painting or two, a Rococo mirror, a mask by Richard Hunt and a giant mosquito from Zimbabwe…

Urban Thunderbirds / Ravens in a Material World

lessLIE, Dylan Thomas / Rande Cook, Francis Dick

Co-curated by lessLIE, Rande Cook and Nicole Stanbridge | Ker and Centennial Galleries

This exhibition highlights new and recent works from Coast Salish artists lessLIE and Dylan Thomas, and Kwakwaka’wakw artists Rande Cook and Francis Dick.

The work encompasses personal stories, community histories and exploration of current events offering a unique view of First Nations art production…

Crossing Channels

Chris Bose, Kristina Campbell, Marina Roy, Grace Salez, Kevin Schmidt

Co-curated by Catlin Lewis and Nicole Stanbridge in collaboration with MediaNet | LAB Gallery

For the coming season of LA B gallery programming we focus on media art from across the Province. The exhibition was inspired by a publication produced by MediaNet in 2012 called Crossing Channels. As a media arts resource it offers information on…

Nurturing the Creative Spirit

The Sisters of St. Ann

Guest Curated by Carey Pallister, Archivist, Sisters of St. Ann Archives, with Michelle Jacques | Drury Gallery

In 1858, a small group of Sisters – the Sisters of St. Ann – traveled from Quebec to establish a convent in Victoria. They also established institutions
of education, notably St. Ann’s Academy, which is recognized as one of the…

Fanciful Banko

Japanese Ceramics

Curated by Barry Till | Founders Gallery

The Banko pieces produced in Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are quaint and charming and were quite popular as export items. There is such a preponderance of styles, shapes and decorations of Banko ware. They have been described as imaginative, bizarre, whimsical, fantastic, and charming…

Masterful Images

The Art of Kiyoshi Saito

Curated by Barry Till | Pollard Gallery 

Kiyoshi Saito (1907–1997) was one of the grand masters of the twentieth-century Japanese print movement known as sosaku hanga, meaning “original creative print.

Saito successfully combined Japanese aesthetic elements with modernist, cubist, abstract, and impressionist qualities,achieving a rare synthesis of East and West and of old and new. His poetic…

Black Ice

David Blackwood Prints of Newfoundland

Curated by Katharine Lochnan and organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario

David Blackwood is one of Canada’s leading printmakers and most popular artists. He has been telling stories about Newfoundland in the form of epic visual narratives for over 30 years.

This exhibition showcases many of his iconic works, revealing the richness of Blackwood’s imagination and…