Gladstone House Art Celebration: It Starts with a Photograph and New Resident Artists

Nika Belianina

Gladstone House Exhibition Opening and Resident Artist Showcase

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Welcome remarks at 6:30pm
Exhibition runs May 1 – September 2, 2025
Gladstone House, Toronto

Gladstone House unveils It Starts with a Photograph, part of the CONTACT Photography Festival. Four exhibitions and installations by six artists use photographs as the starting point for experimentation and reinterpretation. Laura Butler pixelates a family photograph and recreates it in crochet. Nika Belianina and Laura Kay Keeling explore our relationship to nature in collaged and manipulated analogue and digital photographs. Heather Haynes layers paint, thread and rug hooking to create a textured and complex portrait incorporating Virginia Macdonald’s photograph. Jessica Thalmann creates architectural abstractions by folding, tearing and colouring photographs. By translating photographs into different media and altering them by hand and digitally, these artists show the expressive possibilities of the medium.

Visit the Art Studio to see work in progress by Resident Artists Ailin Dong, Mohammadali Khosravi and Theodore Walker Robinson.

Cash bar available.
Free admission, please register to attend.

Gladstone House is accessible, with a ramp entrance and elevator. The hotel does not have designated accessible parking.

Gladstone House
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1J6
416-531-8047
www.gladstonehouse.ca