The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie will be hosting a Pop-Up Beading Group!
Participants will work on a community-beading project, while learning more about the history of beading, and about the Walking With Our Sisters Art Installation coming to Grande Prairie.
Materials will be supplied and all are welcome to this Free event.
Dates & Time
November 16th 6:00-8:00pm
December 7th 6:00-8:00pm
The community was invited to a special drop-in, art-making event. Grounded Reach: Printmaking Party on Saturday, September 30th encouraged participants to create a sculptural print. Printmaker Mary Parslow, whose exhibition The Printed Song, is now on view at the Gallery, led this fun exploration of multiple printing techniques.
Originally from England, Mary began to focus on her love for art-making after retiring from teaching in 2008. Currently living in Dawson Creek, BC, she continues to exhibit her work and teach workshops throughout the Peace Region.
Some of the community left their beautiful prints for us to display in an installation piece Grounded Reach / Rooted Up, which is on our glass bridge located between Gallery 6 and Gallery 7.
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Osborne’s sculptures and installations have developed an individual approach that utilizes found and recycled material that she alters through the application of color, manipulating their original shape, and/or by placing the objects in new contexts so they develop new metaphorical meaning. Her installation work speaks of the forces of transformation within nature, as well as commenting upon pressing issues relating to the environment. In her work Osborne has focused on an examination of the issues of genetically modified organisms and more recently on the crisis in the global oceans.
This exhibition is a mini retrospective with some of the work produced as early as 1997 (Spinners) to the most recent work (Curtain of Life, 2016 and some small sculptures that will be created in 2017 especially for this show). Earlier work demonstrates the searching for ideas that are individual and authentic and relate to the environment around our home in southwest Edmonton. In retrospect the themes of many of these works, such as Shoalwan: River of Fire, River of Ice, 2003 have become prescient issues for the global community. Organisms, 2012 and Curtain of Life, 2016, both included in this show continue to examine concerns about genetically modified organisms and the shrinking biodiversity of seeds.
To view Lyndal Osborne’s website click here
The Peace River Regional District of Northeastern BC can be considered industrially active. This has lead to a redefining of the landscape at an accelerated pace based on the demands of industry and community. The original hills, prairies, and rivers have been modified over time by settlement, agriculture, forestry, and energy development.
We acknowledge that we are located on Treaty 8 territory—the ancestral Land of the sovereign Dane-zaa, Nehiyawak, Dene, and Otipemisiwak Nations. We acknowledge the many Indigenous Peoples who have lived and cared for these lands for generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude.
The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie also recognizes that Land Acknowledgments are not enough. Through our actions we commit to truth, reconciliation, decolonization, and allyship in support of Indigenous lifeways and wellbeing.
