Fairmont Empress: New gallery
Mountain Gallery is new to the Empress, featuring original fine art by renowned Canadian artists, including Paul Nicklen, Hunt Slonem and Dylan Martinez. The expansion marks a major milestone in Mountain Galleries' mission to bring Canadian fine art to inspiring, world-class spaces across the country.
"We look forward to this new partnership and the inspiring space that will offer visitors and the local community a new perspective of our destination through visual storytelling," said general manager Dan McGowan.
Goldfinch Art Centre: Where the Ocean Meets the Rainforest | July 27 to Aug. 24 |170 Goldfinch Rd in Colwood.
Wildlife photographer, conservationist and co-founder of environmental organization Pacific Wild, Ian McAllister, has teamed up with award-winning artist Carole Finn for an exhibition diving into the heart of conservation. Both artists share a love and passion for B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest and advocate for wildlife. Through their different artistic perspectives, they hope to inspire the viewer to learn and take heart in the cause.
"Ultimately, the project offers a new way of looking at conservation: through art that evokes emotion and fosters a deeper connection to the environment," Carole Finn said. "I hope to inspire audiences not only to appreciate wildlife but to feel empowered to take action in preserving it."
Madrona Gallery: Summer select | July 5 to Aug. 9 | 606 View St.
The Madrona Gallery exhibits a focused group of historic, post-war and contemporary Canadian art. The opening reception runs on July 5.
Folk art will also be highlighted at the gallery from July 17-30.
Visit madronagallery.com for more.
The Avenue Gallery: Angela Morgan, Bayot Heer, Tanya Bone | 2184 Oak Bay Ave.
Angela Morgan's paintings are a vibrant ode to the human spirit, from the exuberance of celebration to the wistfulness of summer's end. "Dive into Angela Morgan's world where colour, pattern, and line dance together on canvas!" The Avenue Gallery says.
Bayot Heer’s elegant, timeless jewelry designs are imbued with a European sensibility. Bayot considers working with precious metals and gemstones a rare privilege that comes with the responsibility to honour these materials with lasting designs. In this context, he is often reminded of the Italian-inspired slow food movement – being mindful of the Earth’s resources we are entrusted with. Bayot strives to live up to this quote by Piet Hein: “True design asks one thing of us: to uncover what it covers.”
The Avenue Gallery is delighted to receive "stunning new paintings by Tanya Bone, an artist whose work is inspired by the quiet poetry of everyday life," the gallery said. Whether portraying the tender presence of farm animals, the fleeting grace of birds, or the timeless elegance of flowers, her traditional style brings each subject to life with remarkable clarity and warmth.
Visit theavenuegallery.com to learn more.
UVic's Legacy Art Gallery: George Clutesi | Until July 26 | 630 Yates St.
George Clutesi is a social artist whose legacy was to give voice to Indigenous culture and resilience.
This exhibit, curated in collaboration with Nuu-cha-nulth artists, combines Clutesi's original works with new pieces created in his honour. It's part history (archival photographs, news accounts and a documentary with survivors of the Alberni Residential School), part activism and part contemporary art.
Deluge Contemporary Art: v=d/t | Through July 19 | 636 Yates St. window
In Velocity Equals Distance Over Time, artists' moving image works engage with concepts of escape velocity: transition, arrival, and pre-empting the past. In a period of perpetual fright, these four films choose flight. Catch them from dusk to dawn in the gallery transom window and 24/7 at deluge.ca.
AGGV: Architectures of Protection | Through Oct. 26 | 1040 Moss St.
Audiences are invited to reflect on ways people find protection and refuge, in relation to the self, community, knowledge, culture, identity or land. Visit aggv.ca for more.
