Trade Secrets Workshop: Grant Writing with Daniel Rumbolt

Trade Secrets Workshop: Grant Writing with Daniel Rumbolt

THE GATHERED GALLERY

Kayleigh Heydon

Emily & Natalie

Feb 26, 2020
1 min

Kayleigh Heydon

The work of Australian artist Kayleigh Heydon creates explorative abstract paintings of the human form. In her series, "The Pleasure is All Mine," Heydon has placed her work within a palette of flesh tones that interact on the surface of each painting. Their shapes are soft and rounded, pushing against each other tightly within their frames and creating a sense of pressure and energy. She repeats motifs throughout the series, offering us a glimpse of a hand or profile of a fa

Markus Davies

Emily & Natalie

Feb 19, 2020
1 min

Markus Davies

Dublin based artist Markus Davies creates paintings that explore geometric linework and bold colour fields in response to urban environments. Davies' palette plays with value and saturation to create extreme contrasts within each work. He paints a deep black alongside a striking lime green or poppy red, or he places two vibrant colours together so they appear to shimmer where their edges meet. These paintings push the limits of composition possibilities by reproducing simila

Emma White

Emily & Natalie

Feb 12, 2020
1 min

Emma White

Toronto based painter Emma White explores the intervention of humans on the natural world, and attempts to correct the imbalance we inflict. White's paintings are rich with pigment, their oily surfaces built up wet on wet into thick textures and creamy brushstrokes. She plays with pattern and rhythm, allowing repetitive marks to punctuate the surface of each image. The close-up crops of her subjects reveal her photographic source material, with moments captured from her concr

INTERVIEW: Sebastian Villabona

Emily & Natalie

Feb 5, 2020
2 min

INTERVIEW: Sebastian Villabona

Colombian artist Sebastian Villabona creates work inspired by photographs of his daily surroundings. Through the visual manipulation of these images, he is able to achieve contrasting shapes and strong symbolism in his paintings. Here he shares more behind his practice with us. How do you draw inspiration from your surroundings in your practice? I’m constantly paying attention to my surroundings and the aesthetics of the city, searching for things that visually draw my attent

Seana Reilly

Emily & Natalie

Jan 29, 2020
1 min

Seana Reilly

American artist Seana Reilly creates intricate and detail-filled drawings drenched with tension and mystery. The subject matter of these drawings is elusive, and shape shifting with each glance. At first, they appear as a microscopic slide of bacteria or the cross section of plant or animal fibers. Then, they suddenly shift, transforming into a photograph of the surface of a planet, perhaps the texture of the side of the moon. Each piece brings us into its artificial world, i

INTERVIEW: David Willis

Emily & Natalie

Jan 22, 2020
3 min

INTERVIEW: David Willis

David Willis is a Canadian painter, who's work is full of movement and vibrant colours. He shares with us his thoughts behind his work and process. Can you describe your studio routine? Starting off is always the hardest part, so often I start with mundane things like tidying the space and looking again more closely at recently made work. After that the hardest part is throwing myself into start painting something new, so I break down the white surface as quickly as possible.

Ibrahim Abusitta

Emily & Natalie

Jan 15, 2020
1 min

Ibrahim Abusitta

Toronto based artist Ibrahim Abusitta paints inviting yet eerie group portraits of fun gatherings and social spaces in his series "A Past Life that Exists for Nostalgia" Each painting is filled with an ominous wash of colour, a rust orange, neon fuchsia, and muted burgundy, tinting the scenes with an emotional backdrop. They capture a cinematic moment, a movie still that has been eroded with time with details that have faded away. The texture of the wood-grain surface comes t

Albert Chamillard

Emily & Natalie

Jan 8, 2020
1 min

Albert Chamillard

American artist Albert Chamillard creates ballpoint pen drawings that are intricately layered and pleasantly nostalgic. Using paper from vintage ledger books as a surface, Chamillard allows faded page lines to become part of his compositin, directing their outcome. Each geometric form rises with the textured layers of cross-hatched marks, the repetitive motion of his hand embossing the smooth, yellowed paper until it is glossy. By building up these small lines, he is able to

Joey Slaughter

Emily & Natalie

Jan 1, 2020
1 min

Joey Slaughter

American artist Joey Slaughter creates captivatingly colourful paintings. Each piece oozes with energy from an anthropomorphic personality, creating a cast of characters through Slaughter's body of work. Slaughter's paintings are full of crisp line work and graphic channels, creating intricate colour fields in saturated hues, which mirror and wrap the surfaces of his uniquely shaped panels. While their abstract shapes are strange and unfamiliar, their bulbous nature hints at

LOOK & LISTEN: The Creative Brain

Emily & Natalie

Dec 25, 2019
2 min

LOOK & LISTEN: The Creative Brain

The Creative Brain looks critically at the cause and function of creativity in the human mind. Led by Neuroscientist David Eagleman, it dives into the root of the creative process and asks: how can we harness this in our daily lives? This documentary is studded with big names and successful stories, and proves how essential creativity is for our progress and happiness as humans. The film explores compelling examples of creativity in action, by tapping into some of the most cr

Katherine Duclos

Emily & Natalie

Dec 18, 2019
1 min

Katherine Duclos

Vancouver based artist Katherine Duclos creates compositions and collages that offer escape to another world. Duclos invokes familiar colours, textures, and forms to create scenes that are captivatingly strange. She toes the line between representation and abstraction, allowing us to understand a visual cue and then subverting its context. Working playfully with scale to create works ranging from miniature to massive, she offers unique experiences with each body of work. Thei

Issac Watamaniuk

Dec 4, 2019
1 min

Issac Watamaniuk

Kitchener ON based artist Issac Watamaniuk creates abstract paintings that explore the dynamic compositions found within urban landscapes. Using hard edge shapes, Watamaniuk paints optical illusions that are juxtaposed with the flatness of the solid colour fields to create depth in an unexpected way. In exhibition, the paintings also employ unexpected installation practices, uniquely interacting with props and wall elements to invite the viewer to examine the interactions bet

Light Switches and Text

Jean-Luc Lindsay

Nov 30, 2019
3 min

Light Switches and Text

Throughout the house, there are seventeen switch plates, all but two bear a single switch, these outliers feature three switches of relative similarity, and two identical ones respectively. The switches throughout the house might be categorized within one of two types, as distinguished by the size of the opening of their faceplates: either a large or small centralized vertical rectangle. The majority of the faceplates featuring larger rectangular openings hold rocker style sw

More Doors, and Tape

Jean-Luc Lindsay

Nov 29, 2019
6 min

More Doors, and Tape

My assumption about this project was that it would lead to a sort of abstract portrait of the house that I currently occupy and from which I have drawn much of my recent imagery. What I think has occurred, at least so far, shares more with my paintings than I had anticipated. I think what I’ve produced amounts to kind of a very invested sketch, and a jumping off point that charted a logic through upcoming iterations in the same vein. What I didn’t anticipate (at least in part

The Hallway

Jean-Luc Lindsay

Nov 27, 2019
3 min

The Hallway

It’s funny to me that, before I had started my way across the bathroom, it seemed to me that there really wasn’t all that much on its walls. Here, standing in its doorway to a hallway on the second storey of our home, I find myself thinking the same thing about my immediate surroundings. There just doesn’t seem to be that much on the walls. We’ll see. *** To the immediate left of the bathroom door when facing the hall there are two light switches. The closer operates the bath

COLLECTORS ITEM: Sculpture by Robert Smithson

Nov 27, 2019
1 min

COLLECTORS ITEM: Sculpture by Robert Smithson

Currently on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario is Sculpture by Robert Smithson, a Gravel Mirror Corner Piece made by the artist in 1968. Robert Smithson was part of the Earthworks and Land art movements that followed minimalism and brought sculptures out of the gallery into the outside environment and vice versa. Known for his giant, ephemeral earth works such as Spiral Jetty (1970), Smithson also produced a series of works inside the gallery he called non-sites. Smithso

Intermission (Doorway)

Jean-Luc Lindsay

Nov 24, 2019
2 min

Intermission (Doorway)

Having just written some fifteen hundred words and only just now approaching the exit of the first room of this expedition, I feel as though some changes to the structure of the project are in order, on the one hand to maintain a particular potential for interest, and on the other to make possible the conclusion of the project before the month’s end. From this point forward, I’m going to allow myself to edit; after all, making notes is often more about the salient tidbits tha

The Bathroom

Jean-Luc Lindsay

Nov 18, 2019
7 min

The Bathroom

It has just occurred to me that, as I’ve decided to begin this odd little tour through my home in the bathroom, I haven’t clearly charted a path that will lead me logically, horizontally across the verticality of the house that I hope to describe. I’ve decided the point of departure somewhat arbitrarily - or at least serendipitously - and I imagine that as I find myself at its doorway something of interest will likely guide me down the halls and into the next room. This seems

Gisela Navarro

Emily & Natalie

Nov 13, 2019
1 min

Gisela Navarro

Gisela Navarro is a London based illustrator and graphic designer that creates beautiful designs celebrating the expression and identity of women. Using a pleasant combination of pastel colours and organic shapes, Navarro creates aesthetically pleasing works that are simple but extremely effective. She depicts women with broad shoulders and strong legs, figures that take up space in her utopic land. With their free flowing bodies, these women become one with their captivating

Preamble

Jean-Luc Lindsay

Nov 12, 2019
2 min

Preamble

The first issue that I encounter with this project (the only one so far, but I imagine that there will be more) is that of its origin. If the coming series of posts is to in one way provide a sort of tour of the environment from which I draw much of the imagery that is represented in my paintings, the first question is where to begin, and there are several places to consider: The front door. As this exercise is confined to the boundaries of my home, one logical point of depar