05/17/2026
🐚🦭 FRIDAY 22 MAY, 6-9PM 🦭🐚
Celebrate the launch of our Spring/Summer Exhibitions ⬇️
ᐃᔨ – Eyes – Shirley Moorhouse
May 23 - August 23, 2026
“My artwork speaks from my lived experience as it connects outwards to my family, community, all living creatures, the Earth, and the Universe.”
– Shirley Moorhouse
When she was born, Shirley Moorhouse’s maternal Grandmother, Anana, named her ᐃᔨ (E-Ye-I) in Inuktitut, meaning Eyes. As a young child, she watched her extended family create many items of form, function, and beauty. She has been creating her own artwork for over 30 years, driven by curiosity and a desire to share her stories.
This exhibition showcases Moorhouse’s innovative art practice, from her earliest pieces to new and recently restored artworks. Moorhouse is renowned for her distinctive wall hangings, which incorporate embroidery, beading, and smoke-tanned caribou hide, along with unconventional materials and found objects. Her vibrant imagery delves into complex themes, including environmental stewardship, resource extraction, geopolitics, spirituality, and cultural continuity. Through her work, Moorhouse also extends the invitation “to reflect, to dream, and to celebrate the beauty and mysteries of life.”
Circulated by The Rooms, St John, NL.
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Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo
Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything
23 May-23 August 2026
Zadie Xa creates vivid, immersive installations that incorporate a wide range of materials and media, including painting, textiles, sculpture, light,
and sound. Often these installations offer a space for shared reflection on larger spiritual practices and intergenerational storytelling. Informed by
her Korean heritage and her upbringing on the West Coast, Xa’s work weaves together narratives of interspecies communication, mythology,
shamanism, and folklore with diasporic identity and marine ecology.
Organized and developed by the Power Plant, Toronto and PHI, Montréal.
