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Artisan Gallery Shop
Leave a CommentOur gallery market shop features unique local, handmade and eco-friendly items for home and gifting. The shop is always transforming and adding new products! Right now, the shop features artisan designed crafted home decor, hand made home & beauty products & jewelery and sustainable / eco-friendly items and gifts. To compliment our current exhibition, we also have a selection of well-priced original prints and handmade cards. The gallery artisan shop is open 6 days a week all summer long!
Come see what is fresh, new and creative!
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Elora En Plein Air Show & Sale
Leave a CommentThe Elora en Plein Air festival is coming soon! Artists and visitors are welcome to participate or observe this wonderful weekend event (May 16 – 19). The weekend wraps up with a Show & Sale at the Elora Centre for the Arts on Sunday May 19 from 1-5PM. For more information visit http://www.elorapleinair.ca
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See the Forest Through the Trees: a Planet Youth exhibition in support of mental health
Leave a CommentThis is a student art gallery show at the Elora Centre for the Arts, featuring juried work that draws upon trees as creative inspiration. We will celebrate the strength, healing and resiliency found in trees and highlight how we can learn, grow and face challenges like they do, despite the storms that come. High school students and elementary students are invited to submit work. Selected juried submissions will be featured in the exhibition. Prizes will be awarded for top entries.Students interested in submitting work or finding out more about the criteria, please click here.Teachers can view and download program guidelines here.A free opening reception will be held in the Minarovich gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts on Saturday June 1st from 2-4PM. Everyone is welcome to attend!This is a collaborative project with Neighbourwoods Tree Mapping Project, with assistance and support of YouthTalk , Upper Grand District School Board and the Centre Wellington Community Foundation. -
Bubblegum Landscapes by Frances Hahn
Leave a Comment“All my dreams fall and form a bridge of memory where I can get back”. Frances Hahn doesn’t attempt to paint a clear representation of the landscape, but takes from both reality and her best wondering about the place. She assembles these much like a puzzle into a simplified interpretation of beauty. While her visual work is either figurative or abstract landscape, the common subject is imagined memory. Future, past and fantasy have equal weight.Special thank you to the BLACK DRESS EVENT for helping to present this exhibition!Frances Hahn‘s studio practice is based in Guelph. She has been painting since 2012. While figurative art has been a mainstay, Frances is currently exploring landscapes and abstraction in both paint and collage. Her work is collected widely across Canada, the US and UK and is part of the public collection of the Canadian Mental Health Association. -
Fabric of Memory Exhibition: Pam Lobb & Tammy Ratcliff
Leave a CommentFabric of Memory: Perforations and Passages in printmaking and fibre arts. Featuring the work of Toronto artist Pam Lobb and Guelph artist Tammy Ratcliff.In Fabric of Memory both artists are using print and textiles to explore narratives of nostalgia and memory that develop through the deconstructing, editing and reconstructing of materials.Pam is working from a regional perspective, collecting handmade textiles from Huron and Perth counties. She uses both handmade papers and a process of pouring paper pulp to encapsulate the textiles. An effect that references porcelain is created by layering a series of monoprints on the surface. The imagery is drawn from Victorian ceramic patterns and in combination with the patterns of the lace, a non-representational portrait of her home town emerges.Tammy is inspired by the botanical world and its many examples of imperfection and impermanence. From this viewpoint she uses traditional textile techniques to manipulate her etchings and monoprints on handmade paper, creating renditions of functional textile pieces. Items whose utilitarian value might be lessened as they become threadbare and fragile through use are thus transformed into artifacts of shared memories and the passage of time.This exhibition marks the second show that Lobb and Ratcliff have collaborated on. The two began working together in Tammy’s studio as artist and assistant. Pam was studying printmaking and sculpture when they first met and shortly after, Tammy became her mentor in 2007. After Pam graduated, her position developed beyond the mentorship into that of professional studio assistant for the next five years. Pam’s practice was influenced by Tammy’s love of print and handmade papers and her interest in pushing the limits of this material. During this period of working in the studio, Pam’s sculptures were an influence on Tammy’s work and since then she has been exploring sculpture more in her practice. Their first show together, Paper and Lace at Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art in 2012, marked the first time they worked together as peers and the end of their mentorship relationship.To read more about the artists, please click on the links for Pam Lobb or Tammy Ratcliff. -
Submission Criteria for Exhibitions
Leave a CommentThe Elora Centre for the Arts considers submissions from artists and curators for solo and group exhibitions. We accept proposals from emerging and established artists working in all styles and mediums and across disciplines.
To submit your work for consideration, please include the following information:
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Elora Fergus Studio Tour 2019 – Minarovich gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts
Leave a CommentThe Elora Centre for the Arts is honoured to feature a sample of work from all participating Studio Tour artists in the Minarovich gallery during the studio tour. Start your tour at the Centre and plan your route from there, using the self-guided map provided. This is a great opportunity to go behind the scenes and visit the studios of working artists in our community. The 2019 Studio Tour exhibition in the Minarovich gallery will kick off with an Opening Reception on Friday September 19 from 7 – 9 PM and then be open 6 days a week until October 6th. Please check our home page for gallery hours. Please note that the Elora Fergus Studio tour runs on two weekends ONLY: September 28-29 and October 5-6, 2019.
For artist and studio tour information please click here.
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Tim Murton Satellite Studio Show – Harris Gallery
Leave a CommentYou are invited to this satellite studio show featuring local artist Tim Murton in the Harris gallery. The exhibition will feature some of Tim’s fresh and bright oil paintings from his new collection. Tim Murton’s painting style ranges from impressionism to photo-realism, but his work is always inspired by the qualities of light.
About the Artist
Tim spent over 18 years in the Toronto film industry, accumulating scenic art credits on more than 40 feature films in Canada, US, England and New Zealand. He is now living his life’s ambition as an independent fine artist. Tim’s paintings have been exhibited at Toronto’s Harbour front Gallery, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, The Harbinger Gallery, MacDonald Stewart Guelph, Art Gallery of Windsor, Karger Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts and Chimaera Gallery, UK among others. His work is in many private collections throughout Canada, England, Europe and the U.S
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The Air Conditioned Nightmare: An exhibition by Tim Murton
Leave a CommentOctober 10 – November 17, 2019
Could it be that we’ve been conditioned to live unnatural lives?….Like boiled eggs?
Social commentary. Satire. Dark humour. Disconnection. Isolation. Abuse. Depression. Greed. Anxiety. Dystopia. Enslavement. Conflict.The Minarovich gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts is open 6 days a week. Admission is free. This exhibition is part of the Monster Month celebrations in Elora and Fergus during the month of October.
Opening reception is Thursday October 10th from 7-9PM
Tim Murton’s paintings have been exhibited at Toronto’s Harbour Front Gallery, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, The Harbinger Gallery, MacDonald Stewart Gallery in Guelph, Art Gallery of Windsor, Karger Gallery, Elora Centre for the Arts and Chimaera Gallery in the UK, among others. His word is in many private collections throughout Canada, England, Europe and the USA.
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THIS WAY OUT: Contemporary Landscapes by James Ridyard
Leave a CommentTHIS WAY OUT: Contemporary Landscapes by James Ridyard
Toronto-based artist James Ridyard uses images of Elora and its iconic surrounds as aides-mémoire to produce richly layered, atmospheric landscapes at once familiar and foreign. Curator Micaela Campbell