Stitching Nature: Amanda McCavour’s Double Shadow
byIt is fascinating how a seed in nature has the potential to become an extraordinary plant. In much the same way, a seed of…
Art Review
Amanda McCavour Decides
byWhile helping install Amanda McCavour’s “Double Shadow” at Museum London, Phil Bram reflects on the embroidery artist’s massive wall installation, the strange precision of artistic instinct, and the decisions that make hundreds of stitched elements come alive.
Double Shadow
by(after Double Shadow, Amanda McCavour, Museum London, 2026) This museum wallis humming: covered in threadedsquiggles and polka dots, grids, rain drops,plaid, pattern upon pattern…
very public, very private, very soft edges
byIn very very very, Montreal-based artist Ioana Dragomir offers a glance at Virginia, Vita, and Vanessa through piecing together fragments of intimate correspondence. Playing…
Penn Kemp: Re-Keying: a very very very poem
byAn invitation to enter: take off your shoes and dawdle a while in the careful choices of Ioana Dragomir’s mind on meeting Virginia Woolf….
Studied Things — a very very very poem
byIoana Dragomir Art Now! Speakers’ Series, Western U. March 19, 2026 Ioana reading Virginia Woolf is takenby the glorious transformation of Orlandoas her lover,…
Atmospheric Shifts
byAfter…
Reading the Sky: The Intersection of Art and Engineering, and Stormchasing in the Study of Severe Weather
byStanding on the shoulder of the highway, the rain-free base rotating maybe five kilometres out, and the wall cloud is dropping: slow, deliberate, indifferent,…
Learning Behind the Scenes
byEarlier this year, I had the opportunity to work with McIntosh Gallery curator, Dr. Helen Gregory, as she developed her exhibition, Atmospheric Shifts, featuring…
River of Dreams: Impressionism on the St. Lawrence
byThis past summer, I had the opportunity to visit the extensive exhibition of Quebec Impressionists at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick….