Gallery Gachet

Gallery Gachet Gallery Gachet is a unique artist-run centre located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Join artists Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa and Phillip McCrum in conversation with moderator Gareth James on June 19.Working...
06/12/2026

Join artists Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa and Phillip McCrum in conversation with moderator Gareth James on June 19.

Working across installation, sound, and image, both artists explore absence, displacement, memory, and the fragmentation of lived experience. Through processes of gathering, reuse, and material transformation, their practices consider how meaning emerges from what is collected, discarded, and reassembled.

Together, they will discuss their contributions to Settle Down, Not There and reflect on the intersections of narrative, material, and memory within the exhibition.

Image: Not Much of a Brawler, 2023, by Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa, 46.5” × 16.5” × 4”.

“Uncertainty, if we can bear its weight, can elicit the disquiet we need for necessary change.” — Suparna ChoudhuryWrite...
06/06/2026

“Uncertainty, if we can bear its weight, can elicit the disquiet we need for necessary change.” — Suparna Choudhury

Write Like a Deer emerged from a writing experiment centered on uncertainty, perception, and the possibilities that arise when language resists certainty and conclusion.

Limited copies of Write Like a Deer are still available at Gallery Gachet for $15. To order a copy, please email [email protected].

Image: Rory Mills, Perception > Meaning.

“Executor’s Folly is a Victorian style dollhouse she grew up with, left behind in her mother’s garage and only picked up...
06/05/2026

“Executor’s Folly is a Victorian style dollhouse she grew up with, left behind in her mother’s garage and only picked up again for this exhibition. The dream home becomes so impossible to inhabit here, that there is no threat of being held captive by a trick mirror of patrimonial frills. With these inheritances unpacked and laid bare, now the real homemaking can begin.”

— from To What End? by curator Maya Rodrigo-Abdi

Settle Down, Not There continues at Gallery Gachet through June 20.

Image credits: Exhibition documentation by Dennis Ha.

Join writer and illustrator Sierra Louie for a found poetry workshop presented alongside Settle Down, Not There.Working ...
06/03/2026

Join writer and illustrator Sierra Louie for a found poetry workshop presented alongside Settle Down, Not There.

Working with magazines and existing texts, participants will explore processes of selection, erasure, and rearrangement to create new poetic forms. Attending to language as material, the workshop invites a close engagement with what is revealed, obscured, and reimagined through acts of reading and rewriting.

All materials will be provided. No prior experience required.

This workshop is offered as public programming in conjunction with Settle Down, Not There, curated by Maya Rodrigo-Abdi and currently on view at Gallery Gachet.

This Friday, Ian Wallace and Gibson Switzer will participate in an artist talk presented in conjunction with Settle Down...
05/06/2026

This Friday, Ian Wallace and Gibson Switzer will participate in an artist talk presented in conjunction with Settle Down, Not There, moderated by Helga Pakasaar. The conversation will consider image-making, site, conceptual practice, and the evolving relationship between photography, installation, and space across generations of Vancouver art histories.

Please swipe to read speaker biographies and additional event information.

Image credit: Magazine Piece Schema, 1970, ink on vellum, 24 × 40 in. (62 × 102 cm), Ian Wallace. Courtesy of Catriona Jeffries Gallery.

Gallery Gachet is pleased to participate as a Community Partner in the 25th edition of DOXA Documentary Film Festival, t...
04/21/2026

Gallery Gachet is pleased to participate as a Community Partner in the 25th edition of DOXA Documentary Film Festival, taking place April 30–May 10, 2026.

As part of this year’s programme, we are highlighting The Sandbox, directed by Kenya Jade Pinto, presented within DOXA’s Justice Forum. The film examines the technological infrastructures shaping global border enforcement, tracing how surveillance systems increasingly structure the conditions of movement, visibility, and control.

We are also pleased to share that we have two (2) ticket codes available for this screening. Please stay tuned for details on how to access.

For more information and to explore the full festival programme, visit .

Image credit: Still from The Sandbox (Kenya Jade Pinto).

May–June Programming at Gallery GachetJoin us for a series of conversations and workshops unfolding alongside Settle Dow...
04/20/2026

May–June Programming at Gallery Gachet
Join us for a series of conversations and workshops unfolding alongside Settle Down, Not There:

— May 8, 6–7PM
Artist Talk with Gibson Switzer and Ian Wallace
Moderated by Helga Pakasaar

— May 29, 6–7PM
Curator Talk with Ophelia Zhao in conversation with Maya Rodrigo-Abdi

— June 10, 6–8PM
Found Poetry Workshop with Sierra Louie

— June 19, 6–7PM
Artist Talk with Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa and Philip McCrum
Moderated by Gareth James

Image credits:
Cover: Gibson Switzer, Basement Workshop (2022)
Slide 1: Gibson Switzer, The Artist’s Hand (2025)
Slide 2: Ian Wallace, detail from magazine piece (1970/2026), courtesy of Catriona Jeffries Gallery
Slide 3: Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa, Executor’s Folly (2026)
Slide 4: Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa, Not Much of a Brawler (2023)

CALL FOR WORKSHOP FACILITATORGallery Gachet Gallery Gachet is seeking one artist to curate, develop, and facilitate a se...
04/10/2026

CALL FOR WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
Gallery Gachet

Gallery Gachet is seeking one artist to curate, develop, and facilitate a series of four workshops taking place on Tuesdays between August 11 – September 15.

Workshops may be conceived as a continuous series building week to week, or as four distinct sessions. Each workshop should be designed so that participants are able to create something within a two-hour timeframe.

We are looking for an artist with experience working in the Downtown Eastside, and who brings a strong sense of care, compassion, and understanding to community-based practice.

This is a paid opportunity.

To apply:
Please submit a single PDF to [email protected]
that includes:

A brief description of your workshop idea(s)
Relevant experience

You may also include:

Portfolio (optional)
CV (optional)

Deadline: Friday, April 24 at 12:00 PM (PDT)

This is the final week to view Act 3: As Visible as Blood, on view at Gallery Gachet through Saturday, March 28.The exhi...
03/23/2026

This is the final week to view Act 3: As Visible as Blood, on view at Gallery Gachet through Saturday, March 28.

The exhibition marks the culmination of a year-long curatorial arc that began with the public art intervention Prelude… Venus Lives!, continued through the symposium CODA: As Told by the Living, and finds its fullest articulation in Act 3. Across these moments, the project traces Black femme sexuality and subjectivity through the figure of Venus , following her many iterations, refusals, and returns, while engaging the afterlives of the image through questions of visibility, embodiment, and power.

Gallery Gachet extends deep gratitude to the exhibiting artists, speakers, community partners, and funders who have held this work with care and rigor.

As this chapter closes, we carry its questions forward. We look ahead to Toronto, where we will gather at Gallery TPW for CODA: To Embrace the Break.

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Tuesday 12pm - 6pm
Wednesday 12pm - 6pm
Thursday 12pm - 6pm
Friday 12pm - 6pm
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