Exhibitions

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Current Exhibitions

Gallery I

“Orchid Archive”

Nic Wilson & Lindsey French

Nov. 21st, 2025 – Jan. 23rd, 2026

Orchid Archive is an exploration of communication. It questions the assumed durability of boundaries between species, senses, and beliefs. In some ways, this project is an attempt to speak in a language that is not our own; to blend understandings and to explore the radically divergent meanings that can be attached to things like words, images, and smells. The work tends to the atmospheric commons through dreams and translations of eroding archives, interspecies relationships, and airborne futures.
The project is centered around a piece of writing and a scent that treat communication as a discursive activity that unites beings from across a wide range of lifeforms. The writing recounts a dream about an archive that has been embedded into the DNA or orchids. They are tended by a nameless dreamer whose life’s work is maintaining this unreadable archive. They are a steward. They are alone in a cave with the orchids. They live off of the stems and petals of the flowers. They keep a counter-archive filled with their speculation about the content of the flowers.

The scent evokes the orchid cave with green notes of plant- signaling compounds blended with buttery and animalic notes of cave cheese and the funk of human sweat. The work is presented as an installation with video work, a soundtrack, drawings, and light. In this constellation of work, a signal can be picked up momentarily, and then it passes or wafts away. Encrypted Archive is not concerned with precision but with emanation. Sometimes we lose the signal. Each element has been chosen to highlight the way life is deeply entangled with other life in ways that defy any sharp boundary we, as humans, might find comforting.

Gallery II

I AM…

Fibre Art Network

Nov. 21st, 2025 – Jan. 23rd, 2026

The Fibre Art Network (FAN) is a co-operative of Western Canadian artists committed to promoting fibre as an art form and each other as artists. FAN membership includes emerging fibre artists, teachers, authors and judges. Many members have been recognized both nationally and internationally for their work. FAN was inaugurated in 1998. Since then, FAN has created 34 exhibitions – exhibited at over 100 Canadian venues and 9 International venues

With each of the participating artists creating their expression of what I am means to them, FAN will create a diverse, extraordinary exhibit that is a snapshot in time. All of our lives are rich with different experiences. The time we live in has affected each of us in a unique way. Our different geographical locations influence the way we live and work. Yet, we are a cohesive group of artists who support each other and create art with fibre. As an exhibit, ‘I AM …’ will tell a visual story, reflective of who we are at this point in our lives and time in history.

Past Exhibitions

Submissions

Submission Procedures

The EAGM welcomes proposals from artists and curators in all media for exhibitions or special projects for 2020 and onward. The gallery presents a diverse program of exhibitions, lectures and meetings with artists, and is involved in the production of curated exhibitions connected to themes developed by the EAGM. Together, the programs propose a critical reflection on contemporary art and culture. The gallery offers three exhibition spaces for artist proposals, and welcomes submissions from curators and artists on an ongoing basis.

The gallery has two exhibition spaces (Gallery I and Gallery II). The EAGM provides professional technical services for selected projects. The EAGM pays fees to artists and curators in accordance with CARFAC standards. Submitted projects are assessed and recommended for program inclusion by the curator. Please note that unless requested, we do not notify artists when a proposal has been received, and it can take some time for a decision to be made. Artists are always notified as to whether their submission has been selected for exhibition. Please note that our schedule is currently full for the near future, although we are happy to receive proposals to keep on file for future consideration.

Submission Requirements

Updated CV
Statement of Intent or a Specific Project Description
Artist Statement
10 to 20 digital images or video files* or Photographs
(on video tape, CDR, DVD, or memory stick – if applicable)
Image Identification Page (Title, Medium, Size, Year, etc.)

*For digital images submit only .jpg files in RGB format at a resolution of 72 dpi, with a maximum size of 1.5 MB and a maximum of 1024 x 768 pixels.

Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you are submitting via mail and would like to have your submission returned to you.