04/14/2026
🏁 This week is your last chance to catch Cal Lane: Industrial Intimacies at the Queen's Square Gallery!
⚡️Popping by on closing weekend? Join us on Saturday, April 18 for Women in Trades panel and hear from Cal Lane herself, alongside panelists Nushrat Ahmed, CEO and Co-Founder, Sisterhood of Trades; Brooke Laing, Chief of Strategy at Sisterhood of Trades and UA Local 46 Apprentice; and Roisin Fagan, Licensed 309a Electrician, BFA.
From 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, attendees are invited to visit one of the community partners in the Queen's Square lobby for more information about apprenticeships, funding, and organizations supporting the trades. Beginning at 11:00 am, Tara Bursey, Executive Director of Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, will moderate a panel discussion on women in the trades.
The panel will explore foundational and practical pathways into the trades, sector-wide issues, career development, how the arts and creativity coincide with trade skills, and larger ideas about how labour is defined and who can do it in society.
Register online: https://events.cambridgepl.ca/event/15875054
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Master degree in Fine Arts in sculpture from State University of New York. To date, her pieces stand alone in capturing a delicacy and intricacy quite apart from her closest contemporaries. Lane’s tapestries, cut into harsh and often preternaturally large steel and iron structures, are sensual, alluring and deeply effeminate. Having spent much of her early life as a hairdresser in her mother’s salon in Vancouver Island, Lane soon became interested in exploring gender roles and conceptual art. Lane’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France and the USA.
Images: Cal Lane, Untitled (Wheel Barrow), steel and wood, 2007.
Cal Lane, Shovels, steel and wood, plasma-cut shovels, 2016.
Photos: Joseph Hartman.
Portrait of Cal Lane, courtesy of the artist.
