Exhibition Opening Reception

Guest Curator: Deborah Thompson 

Artists: Susan Andrews Grace, Jim Holyoak, Hildur Jónasson, Genevieve Robertson, Maggie Shirley, Marnie Temple, and Carol Wallace

Deborah Thompson is an artist of settler ancestry living on unceded indigenous territory or the Kootenay region of British Columbia. Her practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and stop motion animation. Through her work she investigates the agency of matter, somatic memory, and the mysteries that lie outside the birth-death spectrum.
 She holds an associates degree from the Ontario College of Art and Design (University), a BA in Cultural Studies from Prescott College, and an MFA from the University of Montana. She has received awards for both her studio and curatorial work from the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, Osprey Foundation, and Canadian Museum Association.
 Thompson has had solo exhibitions at Oxygen Art Centre (Nelson), Kootenay Gallery of Art (Castlegar), Langham Cultural Centre (Kaslo), Grand Forks Art Gallery (Grand Forks), Gallery Gachet (Vancouver), University of Nevada Art Gallery (Reno), and Nelson Museum Archives & Gallery (Nelson). She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre (CAN), Sitka Centre for Art and Ecology (OR), BoxoPROJECTS (CA), DRAWinternational (FR), and others.  She is one of the founding faculty of the Oxygen Art Center (BC) and was the city of Nelson’s Cultural Ambassador for 2024.

FREE EVENT