PUBLIC ART

We Are Forest, 2023
reclaimed wood desk, wood chair, wood bookshelf, books about trees, wood pencils, and seed paper postcards

Part of a larger exhibition of nine installations at No. 9 Gardens entitled With the Land, We Are Forest was in interdisciplinary and interactive temporary public art installation that invited visitors to take some quiet time to sit down and write a letter to or on behalf of trees on handmade seed-paper while sitting below a majestic Oak tree. Inscribed with a poem on the top, the wood installation worked to make material connections between human and more-than-human worlds.

This exhibition was co-presented by Agnes Etherington Art Centre and No.9 and curated by Sunny Kerr, Curator of Contemporary Art at Agnes.

To read more about the larger exhibit, visit https://www.no9.ca/eco-art-exhibition

Generously funded by the City of Barrie and project donors Sheila Delaney and Joan Lehman, the Becoming Rock one-minute sculpture project was an interactive waterfront installation inspired by the playful one-minute sculptures of Austrian artist Erwin Wurm and instructional art of the 1960s.

Created by the PRICE & THOMAS ART COLAB, bringing together the concepts of Frances Thomas and Jill Price, this entertaining field exercise for all ages encouraged both movement and stillness along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay.

To read more, visit the 2022 Culture Days or Akimbo event listings.

Frances Thomas and Jill Price

Becoming Rock Signage

Strike a Pose interaction #5

Frances Thomas and Jill Price

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“Initiated by the Town of Markham Public Realm Committee and the Varley Art Gallery, the Pomona Mural Project was a public art project that worked to employ and support emerging artists as they work to further their careers. Led by the Varley Art Gallery's Education Coordinator Brett Dunlop and Jill Price, a professional artist with public art mural experience, five artists from the York region worked together to create a visual installation on the outside walls of the Thornhill tennis court to celebrate the history of the area while exploring the theme of movement. Participating artists included Isabelle Tremblay, Sylvia Shade Chan, Barbara Wilson, Frankie Ip, and Lynda Warne.