Tag: Local Arts

You’ve got to wonder if Lachlan McKinlay shouldn’t just be buying lottery tickets. Less than two years after graduating from Queen’s University with a degree in film and media, the 25-year-old London native is working in Montreal as a video editor for Framestore, an internationally acclaimed visual effects company based in London, England, with offices […]

A London company has launched a global art contest that carries two $100,000 cash prizes.

ArtWithPanache gallery is hosting a new group exhibition, Dog Dayz, featuring portraits of dogs, until Feb. 27.

It’s a slice of life and a slice of history that Tafadzwa Maposa captured in her winning art work. But it’s my guess it’s the smile that The Mothers on Their Way to the Chapel paints on your face that made it the winning submission for the London Black History Co-ordinating Committee’s commission to celebrate […]

Julie Bevan saw the job advertisement in a newspaper, clipped it out and her life plan was set. She was 16, still in high school and dreaming about her future like all the other students. But that ad, for a curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, was the catalyst that led Bevan to Carleton University […]

Two abstract artists are featured in a new exhibition at Westland Gallery. Synchronicity, featuring works by Lisa Stead of London and Stephanie Fehrenbach of Kitchener runs until Feb. 19. “(Synchronicity) certainly applies to the work of (these) artists,” said the gallery’s Kaitlyn Sun-Hwang. “Unified by a shared process of spontaneous mark-making, Stead and Fehrenbach create […]

In addition to his many other achievements, Tony Urquhart, the Canadian artist who died Wednesday at age 87, played a key role in the Forest City’s arts scene at a critical time.

After talking to Brenda Fuhrman, I can’t help but recall the words of Mahatma Gandhi, who once mused “be the change that you wish to see in the world.