Victoria Collects

A View into Private Art Collections from the Region

Curated by Mary Jo Hughes
Ker Gallery

Victoria Collects features more than 60 major artworks on loan from private collections across Victoria. These paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and drawings by artists ranging from Rembrandt, Andy Warhol, Piet Mondrian, Tom Thomson, E.J. Hughes, Betty Goodwin, to Ed Burtynsky illustrate the immense diversity in collecting styles and approaches that…

Throw Down

Sonny Assu, Gregory Ball, Megan Dickie, Tyler Hodgins, Alison MacTaggart

Curated by Nicole Stanbridge
The LAB & Centennial Galleries

To throw down can mean many things: to celebrate in a big way, to fight for something meaningful, or to contribute resources to make something happen. The overall spirit of throwing down is captured by the five B.C. artists selected for this exhibition.

They use sculpture, video, photography, drawing…

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…