Destination Moon

September 28 to November 17, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford

Guest curated by Bill Clarke

Winnie Truong, Yule, 2022, coloured pencil on hand-cut paper collage. Courtesy of Roz and Andy Heintzman.

For centuries, humans have looked skyward and pondered the moon. Cultures around the world considered it the embodiment of a powerful deity that held sway over the creation of life and bountiful harvests. It has been a source of fantasy; we’ve written adventure stories and made sci-fi movies about visiting it, and eventually earthlings did set foot on the lunar surface. We’ve long believed that the moon is an arbiter of our emotions and behaviours. And now, we’re trying to determine how our closest celestial neighbour might play a part in our post-Earth future. The moon may wax and wane, but it seems our fascination with it hasn’t.

The moon has also long been represented in visual art. Artists as varied as Vincent Van Gogh, J. M. W. Turner, René Magritte, and Paula Rego have used the image of the moon to create atmospheres and evoke psychological states. This exhibition, Destination Moon, brings together works in a range of media by six Ontario-based artists who use lunar imagery to examine cultural, historical, material, spiritual, and conceptual interests. From Shelley Niro’s photographs that frame the moon’s phases through an Indigenous lens to Adam David Brown’s sculpture that brings moonlight into the gallery space to Winnie Truong’s video and collage works that link feminism with the realms of the natural and supernatural, this exhibition flies visitors to the moon, their imaginations transported, without their feet leaving the ground.

The artists featured are Adam David Brown, Steve Driscoll, Jason McLean, Shelley Niro, Winnie Truong, Jim Verburg

Acknowledgements
Glenhyrst Art Gallery acknowledges that we are on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe, and Haudenosaunee Peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolises the agreement to share, protect our resources, and not to engage in conflict. The City of Brantford is situated on the Haldimand Tract, land promised to Six Nations, which includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.

Accessibility
Glenhyrst Art Gallery is fully accessible and includes an elevator and accessible washroom. The main entrance is accessed by a concrete pathway and may be opened with an automatic door opener. For assistance or questions about the gallery, please contact the gallery.

Admission is free, donations are accepted, and everyone is welcome.

Glenhyrst Art Gallery
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