La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario

Ashley Guenette, If a tree falls / Si un arbre tombe, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 48″ x 60″

Ashley Guenette
If a tree falls / Si un arbre tombe

September 11 – October 25, 2025
La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury
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Through an intuitive weaving of painting, drawing, and soft sculpture, Guenette explores the forest as refuge—a place where feelings, memories, and truths unfold in solitude. Rooted in her journey through the soulful, magnetic landscape of Northern Ontario, each piece grows slowly, layered and organic, echoing the textures and colors of the North.

La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, If a tree falls / Si un arbre tombe, 2025

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it; does it make a sound?” In the hush beyond witness, does the expression still echo? In this stillness, she invites you to witness what remains unspoken, yet deeply felt.

Guenette is a Franco-Ontarian multidisciplinary artist from the serene landscapes of Northern Ontario currently working towards her PhD at Nipissing University. Her work combines academic rigor with a deep connection to nature.

This exhibition is in partnership with Good Atlas Gallery.

About the Artist

Ashley Guenette (elle/she) is a multidisciplinary Franco-Ontarian artist from the serene landscapes of Northern Ontario. Holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo, Guenette combines academic rigor with a deep connection to nature in her work. Her art explores the interaction between color, form, and emotion, continually pushing the boundaries of her creativity and inviting viewers into a world where nature and expression intertwine.

Guenette has exhibited her work across Northern, Southern, and Eastern Ontario, captivating audiences with a style that resonates on both a personal and universal level. In addition to her artistic practice, she shares her passion for art as an educator in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Waterloo and is currently pursuing a PhD in Education at Nipissing University.

For more information about the artist:
Instagram @ashleyguenart

Ashley Guenette, Solitude, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 10′ x 14′

Also on View

Ashley Guenette: It Echoes / Ça résonne
September 19 – November 1, 2025
Good Atlas Gallery, North Bay

The GNO is thrilled to announce a new collaboration with Good Atlas Gallery from North Bay. Forging a Northern Ontario connection, the GNO and Good Atlas present duelling exhibitions; a project showcasing Guenette’s works between the two gallery spaces, in Sudbury, If a Tree Falls, in North Bay, It Echoes. This collection includes sketches, oil pastels, and select paintings from private collections—raw, immediate pieces rarely seen by the public.

Good Atlas Gallery
348 Fraser Street
North Bay, ON P1B 3W7
www.goodatlas.ca
goodatlasca@gmail.com
+1 (416) 561-6576

Instagram @goodatlasgallery

Upcoming Programming

Nouveau Louvre 2025
November 15, 2025
La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury

For its 30th edition, the GNO is back with its long-awaited annual event: le Nouveau Louvre, a holiday art sale! For the occasion, the gallery walls will be plastered with works by your favorite local and regional artists. Stay tuned with La GNO to submit your artwork!

About La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario

The Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (GNO) embodies a vision that’s open to all practices in contemporary art, with a particular interest in site-specific creation, installation art, and performance. The GNO encourages and supports artists engaged in a creative process that welcomes risk. Through its innovative and collaborative projects, the GNO encourages interaction and dialogue between artists and with the public. Aware of its geographic location, the GNO favours projects where different ideas, languages, and cultures can come together.

The Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (GNO) is grateful for the space where it resides, on the ancestral lands and traditional territory of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek. The City of Greater Sudbury, located on this Anishinaabek territory known as N’Swakamok, “where the three roadways/waterways meet”. This region also includes the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek of Wahnapitae First Nation. As an arts organization founded by a community whose ancestors were descendants of settlers/colonizers, it is important for us to stress that the activities of the GNO primarily take place on these traditional lands included in the Robinson-Huron Treaty.

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The Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario would like to recognize the generous support of: