Together Apart | Under One Roof: Aganetha Dyck, Reva Stone, Diana Thorneycroft

Woodstock Art Gallery Fall 2025 Exhibition

Installation view, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, 2025. Photo: Justin Jarvis

Together Apart | Under One Roof: Aganetha Dyck, Reva Stone, Diana Thorneycroft

November 1, 2025 – March 7, 2026
Fall Open House: November 1, 2025, 1 – 3pm
Woodstock Art Gallery

This exhibition celebrates the distinct practices and the enduring friendship of artists Aganetha Dyck (1937 – 2025), Reva Stone and Diana Thorneycroft, who were studio partners in Winnipeg for almost 30 years. From the mid-1980s onward, they worked under one roof. They did not collaborate or critique one another’s work, but this shared studio, later known as DST Studio, provided the foundation for longstanding conversations and mutual support that proved critical to their creative careers and eventual visibility as major Canada artists.

Although all three artists brought very different backgrounds, interests and ways of working into the studio, this exhibition reveals many overlapping threads in their practices. Central themes of the show include feminist art practice, the creative power of relationships, and the interplay between human and non-human.

Installation view, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, 2025. Photo: Justin Jarvis

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Fall Open House
November 1, 2025, 1 – 3pm

Join the Woodstock Art Gallery to celebrate this season’s exhibitions, including Together Apart | Under One Roof. The afternoon will feature a video presentation with Reva Stone and Diana Thorneycroft, as well as an informal meet and greet with the artists in the gallery space. This event is free and open to the public.

About the Artists:

Aganetha Dyck (1937 – 2025)

Throughout her career, Aganetha Dyck focused on environmental issues—specifically the power of the small. She was interested in interspecies communication and much of her work and research focused on the ramifications for all living beings should honeybees disappear from earth.

Dyck was the recipient of the Making a Mark Award from Winnipeg Arts Council in recognition of excellence in professional artistic practice, 2013; Art City Star Award, 2013; Spotlight on 40 years: Artworks from the Canada Council Art Bank, 2012; Canada Council’s Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, 2007; Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction, 2006.

Aganetha Dyck passed away on July 18, 2025. Her life was honoured in memorials in the Winnipeg Free Press and Border Crossings magazine. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Canada.

Reva Stone

Reva Stone’s work is informed by a broad theoretical context that includes an examination of the mediation between our bodies and the technologies that are altering how we interact with the world. In her most recent work, Stone examines how artificial intelligence algorithms are used in forms of surveillance that enter our homes—intimate spaces we currently consider private. She is interested in the consequences if what we are not yet able to render into digital form—our thoughts, dreams, hopes and memories—become digital.

Stone has received many awards, including the 2017 Distinguished Alumnae Award from the University of Manitoba, the 2015 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, and an honorable mention from Life 5.0, Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain. She has exhibited widely in Canada, the US and Europe; presented at symposia; and has been published in journals including Second Nature: The International Journal of Creative Media.

Diana Thorneycroft

Known for making art that frequently employs black humour and hovers on the edge of public acceptance, Diana Thorneycroft has pursued subject matter that often challenges her viewing audience.

As a child, Thorneycroft lived on a Canadian military base near Baden-Baden, Germany. The Black Forest was her playground and had a profound influence on her artistic practice. Stemming from the recently touring installation Black Forest (dark waters), Thorneycroft’s first stop-motion animation short film Black Forest Sanatorium had its world premiere at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival. It has since been shown in fifteen other venues, including galleries and festivals. Thorneycroft is currently working on her second stop-motion animation, Black Forest Fastnacht, that focuses on a novice priest attempting to get to church during the last hour of a raunchy Mardi Gras carnival.

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Curated by Denise Lawson and Angela Somerset. Originally presented at Comox Valley Art Gallery, Comox, BC. Circulated by DST Studio, Winnipeg, MB, with the assistance of Comox Valley Art Gallery and Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI and the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.