Current Exhibitions

Archive Retrospective

Curated by Kohen Shauf

Sept 6th – Nov 8th, 2024

Twenty pieces of art created by a total of fifteen talented artists were carefully hand picked from the Estevan Art Gallery & Museum’s archive room by summer student Kohen Shauf. This curated selection includes works from eight artists featured in the Archives catalog, however, it also features pieces from four additional artists whose work is located in the archive room, but not included in the catalog. 

Furthermore, the Archives catalog was written, compiled and designed by Kohen Shauf. In fact, this exhibition was created from the Archive 2024 Summer Project, during which Kohen found a handful of local artists in our archives, and researched the artists and their artworks. Not only was the Archive Project established in order to pay homage to the very talented local artists that we have in our collection, it also aims to spotlight some of their work. Kohen selected some of his favourites to display for people to see.

Artists featured in the catalog and exhibition include: Michael Lonechild, Ernest Lindner, Gregory Hardy, Robert Hurley, Lindsay Arnold, Corrine-Trebick Gibson, Cheryl Andrist and Alana Moore. Along with these artists, Ken Dalgarno, Victor Cicansky and Bette Lemke are also featured in the catalog. The Archive catalog shares information about the artists themselves and their lives and achievements, some of their archived works, as well as their inspirations and themes throughout their artwork. In addition to the artists inside of the catalog, Susan Unger, Betty Sherman, Pia Terhart, and Eileen Egerton Lampard are the other artists selected specifically for this exhibition. 

The pieces in this exhibition explore a variety of themes, mediums and sizes. The assortment of paintings and drawings range from 68 to 14 years old, and since being stored, many have yet to be viewed by the public again. Themes from some of the artworks include that of Indigenous cultures, landscapes, farmland, femininity, animals, and more.

Bullshit

Jamie Reynolds

Sept 6th – Nov 8th, 2024

Have you ever visited any of Saskatchewan’s provincial or National parks? Pristine packets of perfectly preserved, picture perfect parkland. The first time I visited the West Block of Grasslands National Park, we had driven to the top of a road that overlooked the area for a full panoramic view. The sun was shining through the clouds, creating visible, heavenly beams of light that highlighted the valley in a suitably dramatic way. The raw quartz crystals that litter the ground, sparkling like nature’s discoballs. The rolling hills and rainbowstriped bluffs, carvedinto the earth millenia ago by giant glaciers; slowly sculpting their legacy as they crept over the sleeping land. Picture the morning dew! Rising, as an almost magical mist, leaving the world fresh and damp and cool. Maybe there was even a majestic eagle flying overhead, screeching it’s regal approval. KAWW!

This is (more or less) the view that greeted me at the top of this road. My spirit full of awe! Myheart full of wonder! My eyes full of tears, overcome by sheer natural beauty! My foot full of… the cow shit I just steppedin.

Yeah, the moment is over.

Since this visit to the park, I have been on a years long journey to discover, “What’sup with the poop in the parks?”

The more I went in to the rabbit hole (poop chute?) of research about ecology, biology, preservation vs conservation, the history of the parksand crown land,the history of the land itself, and the plants and animals that live (and don’t live) on it, the more I started to think to myself, “Wellthis is bullshit.” And then, “I wonder if other peopleknow about this?”

Inspired by my incredibly creative children, (who thought it would be funny to take multiple photos of cow poop in the grass when I asked them to, “take pictures of anything interesting they saw” – they were right, it was funny), this show was developed as my contribution to the conversation about reconciliation and the environment. Its about finding beauty in disgust, and how what we think of as naturalis more artificial than we might expect.But mostly, it’s because filling the sterile, white walled gallery space (the penultimate expression of western Colonialist Art ideals) with literal shit is the kind of irony that I find personally hilarious.

Cheers, and welcometo the shitshow. 💩😃

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