SOME RECENT & CURRENT EXHIBITIONS FEATURING SDA BC MEMBERS

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SDA BC members have been featured in a number of exhibitions around the province lately. Some info and pics follow...

MICHELLE SIROIS-SILVER AT THE CULTCH IN EAST VANCOUVER

Hanging the exhibition in the Lobby Gallery

The East Vancouver Cultural Centre presented Michelle's work, Love, Decay, Repair, from May 13 to May 31, 2014. Lobby Gallery, CULTCH, Vancouver, BC

Imagined Dialogue I

Imagined Dialogue II detail

Decay

JENNIFER LOVE AND KATHLEEN AINSCOUGH AT THE GALLERY AT ARTISAN SQUARE ON BOWEN ISLAND

Informed by Nature continues until June 22nd, 2014 at The Gallery at Artisan Square on Bowen Island. Just a fifteen minute ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay, one can walk or take the shuttle up the hill to the square. Gallery website. More images of Kathy's work to come soon.

Nocturne. K Ainscough

can spring be far behind? J Love

Stone Garden. J Love

Seeded Ground. J Love

Kathy with her headdress in SDA BC's 2013 Talking Heads exhibition.
This piece is also in the Bowen Island show. 

CATHERINE NICHOLLS WITH THR3FOLD AT FIBREWORKS GALLERY IN PENDER HARBOUR

Laura & Linda Kemshall from the UK and BC SDA member Catherine Nicholls are showing new work in an exhibition titled thr3fold unfinished business, at FibreWorks Gallery in Pender Harbour. The exhibition continues until July 13, 2014. FibreWorks website. More photos can be seen on Catherine's website here.

Catherine Nicholls

Laura Kemshall

Linda Kemshall (detail)

BARBARA HELLER AT THE MAPLE RIDGE GALLERY

Falling from Grace: The Tapestries of Barbara Heller continues at the Maple Ridge Art Gallery until July 26, 2014. Gallery website. Barbara's website.

Related Events: 

Weaving Demonstrations: Barbara Heller will demonstrate the techniques used to create her tapestries.

Saturday, June 14, 11:00AM – 4:00PM (free); Saturday, July 12, 11:00AM – 4:00PM (free)

Lecture: Tapestries, Decorative Art and the Culture of Consumption

Saturday, June 28, 1:30PM – 2:30PM

Presented by Angela Clark, Curator of Il Museo, Italian Cultural Centre

Still Life with Bird

MATERIALIZE - SDA Sunshine Coast exhibition at FibreWorks Gallery; Calls for Entry

Child by Penny Connell

 SDA BC website - click here

Materialize at FibreWorks Gallery

Saturday, April 5th marked the opening of the 2014 season at FibreWorks Studio and Gallery in Pender Harbour on BC's Sunshine Coast.

The first FibreWorks exhibition of the year, Materialize, showcases the art of the Sunshine Coast branch of the Surface Design Association. Artists include artists Marie Barry, Ursula Bentz, Leslie Campbell, Constance Chapman, Penny Connell, Dorothy Cross, Pat Crucil, Jean Biccum Curry, Gail Hunt, Trisha Joel, Jennifer Love, Lois McArthur, Sharon Roye, Jill Sullivan and Patt Wilson.

The opening reception was very well attended and there was great enthusiasm about the diverse and inspiring range of artworks. Below you'll find images of one piece by each of the participating artists, as well as a couple taken at the reception.

Patt Wilson & Connie Chapman at opening reception.
Works by Connie (left) and Jennifer Love in the background.

Laughter in the Garden, side view by Jennifer Love

Who are They? by Jill Sullivan

Marie Barry in front of her work, at opening reception

Letting Go by Dorothy Cross

Robert Service Cabin, Yukon by Gail Hunt 

Ohm mane padme (detail) by Trisha Joel

Winter's Palette  by Connie Chapman

Vessel & Night Skies by Pat Crucil

Encaustic triptych by Sharon Roye

Reds (detail) by Leslie Campbell

Hillside Houses by Lois McArthur

PH Community Choir Banner (detail) by Jean Biccum Curry

Blue by Ursula Bentz

For more info contact Yvonne Stowell at Fibreworks Studio & Gallery, 12887 Sunshine Coast Highway, Madeira Park, BC V0N 2H0

Website; Email; 604-883-2380

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CALL FOR ENTRY

British Columbia SDA Members

Call for Entry for exhibition : mended

Relationships, a broken heart and socks can all require mending at some point. Have you improved something by mending? Made it more useful or functional? Or even mended your ways? We invite you to share your story and submit work that reflects the theme, whatever it means to you.

Click HERE for the call for mended.

Deadline for Entry: September 1, 2014
For more information contact: Anni Hunt

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ANOTHER CALL FOR ENTRY

Canadian SDA members

Call for Entry for exhibition: EDGE OF THE FOREST

Click HERE for the call for EDGE OF THE FOREST, a traveling exhibit scheduled for 2015 and 2016. All Canadian SDA members are invited to submit images of their work for jurying. This is an opportunity to participate in an art event that expresses the unique Canadian perspective.

Deadline for Entry: October 1, 2014
For further information contact: The Edge of the Forest Team