Art In Bloom Floral Exhibition

Literally art in bloom, this fantastical exhibition is one of the many events involved with Art In Bloom; the Gallery’s 7th biennial fundraiser taking place from March 21 to 25.

Witness 25 works from the Gallery’s permanent art collection brought to life by a diverse group of floral stylists, designers, architects and even chefs. These talented…

LAB 5.5: Improvisation Space, Alisdair MacRae

Drawing on his background in improvisational jazz and dance, New York based artist Alisdair MacRae will create an interactive improvisation space in The LAB. The project uses viewer-activated sculpture to explore the improvisational qualities of seemingly rigid technologies. MacRae is influenced by the sculptures of Mowry Baden and Roland Brener which often include elements of…

Full Space

Modern Art from the Firestone Collection

The Firestone Collection of Canadian Art is a significant art collection that spans the modern period (1900 – 1980). Collectors O.J. and Isobel Firestone originally established the collection in the early 1950s, when they began acquiring sketches and drawings done by A.Y. Jackson and other members of the Group of Seven. Over time, the Firestones…

Body & Soul

Chinese Figure Painting of the 20th Century

Brian S. McElney, an important Gallery supporter from Bath, England, has donated over 350, twentieth century Chinese paintings to the Gallery over the past decade. Previously this collection has been featured in exhibitions at the Gallery entitled Romantic Landscapes and Birds, Beasts, Blossoms and Bugs. This exhibition features a sizeable number of paintings dealing with…

Mowry Baden & Roland Brener: Part 2

Mowry Baden & Roland Brener: Thirty Years in Victoria explores the sculptural influence of two internationally prominent, Victoria-based artists through a major two part exhibition. Part one, presented in Spring 2005, showcased significant public art projects: Radioville, a commission for Context Development International in Toronto by Roland Brener and From Wild Celery to the Fulcrum…

LAB 5.4: Wish You Were Here (At Odds with Emily) d. bradley muir

d. bradley muir revisits the Vancouver Island sites of Emily Carr’s paintings, in particular Odds and Ends (1939) and Above the Gravel Pit (1937), to create a series of large-format colour photographs…

Looking at Patronage: Recent Donations of Asian Art

Over the past five years the Gallery has received an abundance of Asian art donations worth well over one million dollars! These, combined with earlier donations, have made our Asian art collection the second most comprehensive Asian collection in Canada, second only to the Royal Ontario Museum….

Looking At Patronage

New Emily Carr Donations

Patronage. It seems like a word from the past. A patron, defined in the dictionary is ‘one who countenances, protects or gives influential support to something, especially the arts’. Interestingly, its other meanings also include ‘a regular customer’, with other references to patron saints, ‘the special guardians of somebody or something.’

The Art Gallery of Greater…

Images from the Tomb

Chinese Burial Figurines

Throughout China there was a belief that at death man simply changes the scene of his existence and that his needs and desires in the afterlife are, in fact, the same as during his lifetime. Therefore, many funerary figurines were placed in the deceased?s tomb. It was believed these figurines were surrogates for real people…