Victoria Collects: The Salish Weave Collection

Curated by Mary Jo Hughes
Drury Gallery

The Salish Weave Collection, as part of the Victoria Collects exhibition, demonstrates that a passion for the art of our region can translate beyond amassing and decorating to sharing and educating.

Focusing exclusively on works by contemporary Coast Salish artists, George and Christiane Smyth dream of seeing this unique art with…

The Enduring Arts of China

Curated by Barry Till
Founders Gallery Dec 2 – May 6
|and| Pollard Gallery Dec 9 – April 29

In Chinese art, there was a high degree of continuity in the range of decorative elements used in the creation of art through successive dynasties.  A wide range of motifs and decorative compositions in use have been passed down…

Promising Objects

Alison MacTaggart

Alison MacTaggart is a Vancouver-based artist whose conceptually inspired installation work bridges the disciplines of sculpture, drawing and writing.  

Her recent work Promising Objects draws parallels between language and art further exploring her interest in inventors and artists and their respective quests to devise solutions to problems and ideas.

“To guide the early stages of the…

Asian Ceramics from Ancient Shipwrecks

The Art Gallery has a large number of ceramics which were recovered from ancient shipwrecks in Asia. 

Some of the shipwrecks include the Royal Nanhai wreck (sunk about 1450 carrying Thai ceramics), the Hoian wreck (sunk about 1500 carrying Vietnamese ceramics), the White Lion Dutch wreck (sunk 1613 carrying Chinese blue and white porcelains), the Vung…

Collected Resonance

Shelly Bahl, Sarindar Dhaliwal, and Farheen HaQ

Collected Resonance brings together three South Asian Canadian women artists who gather and create narratives informed by the mythologies and ideologies of their Hindu, Sikh and Muslim heritage. 

Their work investigates, pays homage to and challenges their cross-cultural memories by forging new narratives that straddle Canadian, British, and Indian traditions. The exhibition includes sculpture, video and…

Indian and Persian Miniature Paintings

Indian and Persian miniature paintings and calligraphy provide an excellent opportunity for the study of the variety and excellence of artistic expression within the limitations of a surface the size of a book page. 

 Not only was the miniature painter confined by the small scale but also sometimes by the encroaching calligraphy.  Furthermore, the subject matter…

Modern Eye

Craft and Design in Canada, 1940-1980

Modernism dominated craft and design in Canada from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. This exhibition explores the modernist viewpoints held by Canada’s most prominent designers and craft artists working in this period.Included will be over 150 pieces of furniture, ceramics, and household items that best illustrate modernist preoccupation with form, colour, texture, experimentation, functionality, and…

The Further Adventures of Girl

Diyan Achjadi

Curated by Nicole Stanbridge
The LAB Gallery

Thursday, September 15th  – animation screenings and artist talk.The Further Adventures of Girl is an ongoing, ever-expanding series of works that explore questions of how group identity, national identity, and militarism are depicted in popular culture.

 The series centres on the figure of Girl, a young golden-skinned, ethnically-ambiguous character who exists…

Cultural, Temporal and Imagined

Landscape in Recent Contemporary Acquisitions

Curated by Nicole Stanbridge

This exhibition features a selection of recent acquisitions to our contemporary collection by Canadian artists. Works by Vikky Alexander, James Gordaneer, Terrance Houle, Kristina Kudryk, Mike McLean, and Kate Wilson reflect the socio-cultural history of North America

 and propose new imagined landscapes for consideration. These works, whether through painting, photography or drawing, act 

as…