A Nipissing Region/GTA Exchange Project in collaboration with the International Broken Forests Group
Exhibition: August 3 to 21, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 6, 2 to 5 pm
Presentations & Performance: Monday, August 15, 7 to 10 pm
featuring a performance by Neryth Yamile Manrique (Colombia) & Cecilia Stelini (Brazil)
& Conversations and presentations by the Broken Forests Group & Old Growth exhibiting artists
Old Growth Resurrection, Regeneration, Intervention Exhibition:
From August 3 – 21, 2022, the Old Growth Resurrection, Regeneration, Intervention exhibition will be held at Propeller Art Gallery. It focuses on reconnecting artists and arts audiences to Old Growth trees and their habitats across the province.
The Gallery component of the project includes the presentation of 39 artists, working in many different mediums, who have created new artworks that resurrect our personal connections to wild forests, regenerate interest in the well-being of the forests, honour the people who have devoted their lives to saving these old trees and intervene or record interventions that focus public attention upon issues of concern to environmentalists. The exhibition includes both Invited artists from the Broken Forests Group and artists chosen from an Open Call for Submissions to the project.
Presentations & Performance: Monday, August 15th, 7 – 10 pm
At the Broken Forests event on Monday, August 15th Neryth Yamile Manrique from Colombia and Cecilia Stelini from Brazil will make a performance act entitled “Union”. The artists, using threads of colour red and burgundy, will unite the members of the Broken Forests Group. This symbolic act will represent gathering, togetherness and relation to continue on the journey.
The project is designed to impact our forests and relatively unknown wilderness areas by focusing public attention on their present states, especially the Old Growth forests that are under threat from various human forces/activities. The hope is that this art project can direct our gaze upon forests in 2022 and encourage dialogues and actions around increasing biodiversity in these wild areas, protecting remaining stands of old growth, and retaining our spiritual connections to these special places and beings.
Dermot Wilson and Cesar Forero
Photos from the August 6th Opening Reception
Exhibiting Artists:
Alexander Boudreault, Michael Brown, Nancy R. Chalut, Michael Cywink, Liz Rae Dalton, Susan Farquhar, Linda Fitz & Steve Paul Simms, Peter Friedrichsen, Sharron Corrigan Forrest, Gerry Gooderham, Arlington Hoffman, Lee Horner, Domenica Howley, Valentina Hutcheon, Alexandra Iorgu, Lisa Johnson, Clement Kent & Leena Raudvee, Sophia Kim, Robin Kingsburgh, Karen Klee-Atlin, Adam Kolodziej, Michelle Letarte, Liz Menard, Jurgen Mohr, Lisa Murzin, Leah Oates, Frances Patella, Atia Pokorny, Dominique Prévost, Clare Ross, Susan Ruptash, Silvija Saplys, Tracy Thomson, Mateus Stelini, Pearl Van Geest, Nadine Wyczolkowski, and Noriko Yamamoto.
Old Growth Resurrection High Park:
Old Growth Resurrection High Park is a site-specific group exhibition situated in High Park in downtown Toronto from August 6 – September 9, 2022. The nine installations build awareness around Old Growth and create networks between artists, environmentalists, and arts audiences in the Toronto area.
These installations include new ephemeral and environmental works by: Ernest Daetwyler, Don Chretien, Quan Steele,
Joey Bruni, the O’Honey Collective (Leslie Putnam and David Bobier), the TH&B Collective (Tor Lukasik-Foss, Ivan Juracik, David Hind and Simon Frank), Ann Marie Hadcock, Norma Vieira (Campinas, Brazil installation artist) and the Raven Grove Collective (Michael Bohonis).
Alexander Boudreault
Wild Night and Day (Diptych)
(Diptych) Printed on durable indoor-outdoor material.
Artwork: 48 in. x 36 in.Price: $1000
Artist Statement-
Michael Brown
Can You Make A Difference?
Mixed media on panel
Artwork: 42 in. x 48 in.Price: $3000
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Nancy R. Chalut
In A Hurry To No Where
Oil on Canvas
Artwork: 18 in. x 30 in.Price: $1800
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Sharron Corrigan Forrest
Natures Ancient Garden
Sumi Ink & other ink/pens on Haruki & Heritage Washi Sekishu Banshi Tsuru sized with Konnyaku starch
Artwork: 36.5 in. x 20 in.Price: $875
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Michael Cywink
Old Growth Resurrection
Mixed Media
Artwork: 20 in. x 30 in.Price: $5000
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Susan Farquhar
ALTERED 3
Paper Contruct with photo transfer on textured canvas
Artwork: 18 in. x 18 in.Price: $850
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Peter Friedrichsen
Barney Lake No. 3
Archival inkjet pigment on cotton baryta paper (Edition 1 of 5)
Artwork: 12 in. x 16 in.Price: $475
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Gerry Gooderham
What lies beneath
Photograph
Artwork: 18 in. x 28 in.Price: $450
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Arlington Hoffman
Heart of the Seedling
Watercolour on paper
Artwork: 9 in. x 13 in.Price: $800
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Lee Horner
37
Mixed media on etched metal
Artwork: 30 in. x 30 in.Price: $1400
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Domenica Howley
Lungs on Fire
Lithography, ink on paper
Artwork: 11 in. x 15 in.Price: $300
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Valentina Hutcheon
Revival
Acrylic
Artwork: 36 in. x 36 in.Price: $5,900
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Alexandra Iorgu
Growing Together
Buckthorn roots, native willow cord and found stone
Artwork: 32 in in. x 16 in in.Price: $4800
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Lisa Johnson
Uprooted
Mixed media, oil paint, canvas, wool, branches
Artwork: 60 in. x 36 in.Price: NFS
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Sophia Kim
Regeneration – Unnoticed Existence
Acrylic on canvas
Artwork: 24 in. x 24 in.Price: $1500
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Robin Kingsburgh
Ash Borer Ash
Digital print
Artwork: 30 in. x 20 in.Price: $600
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Karen Klee-Atlin
Blazed Birch – Sage and Orange
Reductive Lino-cut
Artwork: 20 in. x 20 in.
Frame: 24 in. x 24 in.Price: $650
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Adam Kolodziej
Oak
charcoal
Artwork: 36 in. x 24 in.Price: NFS
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Clement Kent & Leena Raudvee
Regeneration
Video 01:52 min.
Artwork: 0 in. x 0 in.Price: NFS
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Michelle Letarte
Reconstructed Haliburton Forest
Mixed media, phototransfers and acrylic on canvas
Artwork: 36 in. x 24 in.Price: $900
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Liz Menard
What the Forest Knows
Double Accordion Artist Book Original Prose, etching, aquatint, silkscreen prose, encaustic
Artwork: 9 in. x 9 in.Price: $1000
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Jurgen Mohr
Red Pine at Duschenay Falls
Acrylic on Board
Artwork: 40 in. x 30 in.Price: $1450
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Lisa Murzin
Fermented Rock 1
gumoil
Artwork: 9 in. x 7 in.Price: $500
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Leah Oates
Transitory Space, Nova Scotia, Canada #56
Colour Photography from 35 mm film scan
Artwork: 11 in. x 14 in.Price: $500
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Atia Pokorny
River
Inkjet print on archival paper
Artwork: 13 in. x 20 in.
Frame: 20 in. x 25 in.Price: $800
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Frances Patella & Dominique Prévost
Infusion/Transfusion
Mixed media, live tree, branches, plastic tubing, pigment, washi paper
Artwork: 60 in. x 36 in.Price: NFS
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Liz Rae Dalton
Hydra
Encaustic, Reclaimed Wood
Artwork: 27 in. x 10 in.Price: $2800
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Clare Ross
Ruffled
Archival Pigment Print Photography
Artwork: 30 in. x 40 in.Price: $2800
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Susan Ruptash
Bark Portraits – Cedar
Kizuki Akamatsu washi with konnyaku
Artwork: 74 in. x 8 in.Price: NFS
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Silvija Saplys
Untitled
acrylic on canvas
Artwork: 20 in. x 16 in.Price: NFS
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Mateus Stelini
Devotion
Wood object
Artwork: 3 4/16 in. x 12 4/16 in.Price: $450
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Linda Fitz & Steve Paul Simms
The Shield and the Taiga
Video Poetry 02:16 min.
Artwork: 0 in. x 0 in.Price: NFS
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Tracy Thomson
The Mycorrhizal Network
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Paper on Wood Panel
Artwork: 72 in. x 36 in.Price: $3250
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Pearl Van Geest
Shorelines
Acrylic on canvas
Artwork: 26 in. x 13 in.Price: $3200
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Nadine Wyczolkowski
Triumph II
Aquatint and etching printed on handmade paper by the artist
Artwork: 18 in. x 25 in.Price: $950
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Noriko Yamamoto
Hope
driftwood, plastic wrap, washi (Kurotani #52), konnyaku powder, pigment, acrylic glue, wire
Artwork: 36 in. x 28 in.Price: $1200
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