Reflections from the Watersheds of Time in 2121 – An Open ONLINE Juried Art Exhibition
Kawartha Art Gallery’s first ever online and themed juried exhibit invited artists to tell a new story, to imagine what balanced, sustainable, equitable, and abundant communities will look like 100 years from now.
Technological and social advances build upon ideas, and the best ideas come from envisioning the future and we hoped to inspire works that drew on the artists most utopian visions or dystopian warnings.
An opportunity to address the role the Kawartha Lakes has in defining our role as environmental stewards through the educational and civic programs that are available in our community, the School of Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences, Frost Campus Fleming College, the City of Kawartha Lakes and Kawartha Art Gallery, co-presented this speculative design initiative on Climate Futures.
The WINNERS
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The JURORS
The FINALISTS
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I have been painting and sketching since childhood and the sense of time is one of my favorite objects to paint. It seems strange. How is it possible to draw time?"After the Storm" is one of the sketches of time.
Humans depend on plants for survival, but why are humans drawn to gaining deeper knowledge of plants and their capabilities?
Only hope remained inside Pandora’s box...hope that might somehow help mankind cope with the evil unleashed upon the earth.
I’ve spent a lot of my life in the Kawartha’s, on the west shore of Clear Lake — summers as a child, weekends as an adult with jobs in Toronto — but I never lived here through all the seasons until the last fifteen years.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the old growth forests in Ontario were harvested to supply wood for everything from ship masts to pulp for newspapers.
Painted in the shade from the south, looking north onto the lily pond, the boat launch and the beautifully designed wharf.
The Dodo bird was allowed to die out. It lived only on the island of Mauritius. When people settled there, endangered them, and introduced pigs, monkeys and cats, who ate their eggs.
Hunting Season on Secret Lake was shot last November. I found myself hiking while fluorescent hunters stalked the woods.
I’ve had the enormous pleasure of visiting the Canadian High Arctic with the Royal Canadian Coast Guard and aboard the Akademik Ioffe a scientific vessel.
Quietly, swiftly, the canoe glides through water transporting us to our destination. From early time we have used the finds in nature to cobble together items of use.
Tributary depicts a close-up view of a creek that is part of the Lake Simcoe watershed. It winds through a rural property, in the eastern region of the City of Kawartha Lakes.
This work was created from found paper on an old piece of plywood. As an artist I choose to use simple materials that I find around me.
What a delight to be greeted by this magnificent Green Sea Turtle, a true ancient mariner, on a coral reef off the Maui coast.
Living Waters is the result of a mixed paint pour on a china plate in a manner much like engobe. It invokes an image of wild, rushing, clear and clean, fresh waters of the Canadian watersheds.
Kawartha Art Gallery extends our sincere appreciation to all the Artists that submitted work, to our esteemed Jurors, to the School of Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences - Frost Campus Fleming College and the City of Kawartha Lakes, and to Barton Creative and all of the Staff of the Gallery for all their support.
This exhibition could not have happened without their dedication, skill and patience.
Thank you!
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