About the exhibition
This collaborative project brings together Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation artist Cathie Jamieson and Barrie-based artist Jill Price. The land-based practices that inform Jamieson’s work inspire a series of installations using natural materials such as tree bark and branches, plants and florals. Carefully harvested by Jamieson in alignment with natural laws, these materials bring elements and gestures connected to the artist’s healing workshops into the gallery space. Price’s work considers methods of unmaking systems of harm rooted in Euro-colonial aesthetics and global industrial capitalism by drawing from the characteristics and benefits of trees, to consider how we can be of service to the land and act from a place of reciprocity. Together, the two artists will also develop collaborative installations that model and inspire care and repair toward trees and the land, building visitors’ connections to natural laws. The exhibition as a whole considers how artists can create with more ecological sensitivity, and soften the hard edges of the “white cube” gallery to generate receptive spaces for Indigenous and environmental practices.
The Art Gallery of Mississauga wishes to thank the following funders for their generous support:
