I’ve Been Here Before: Cathie Jamieson and Jill Price

Jill Price and Cathie Jamieson, untitled, 2026

I’ve Been Here Before: Cathie Jamieson and Jill Price

Art Gallery of Mississauga
May 2 – July 19, 2026
Curated by Shannon Anderson, AGM Senior Curator

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6 – 8pm
No registration required. Refreshments will be provided.

When art evolves through a sensitivity to materials and care for the environment, it can illuminate the implications of our day-to-day behaviours as consumers and urban dwellers. In I’ve Been Here Before, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation artist Cathie Jamieson and Barrie-based artist Jill Price share their land-based practices, which are both grounded in mindfulness and a commitment to opening up conversations around our collective responsibility to protect the earth.

Jamieson’s work is informed by ancestral Indigenous knowledge of harvesting materials in accordance with natural laws. Through a series of installations using supplies carefully gathered on her Manitoulin Island forest property, such as tree bark and branches, plants, and florals, she brings elements and gestures connected to her teaching practice and healing workshops into the gallery. By centring the medicinal properties and symbolic meanings of these materials, she offers a space for learning and reconnection.

Price’s work considers methods of unmaking systems of harm rooted in colonialism and global industrial capitalism. Her sculptural installations derive from discarded materials she has collected along Ontario shorelines, which are then cleaned, reused, recycled, and repurposed. Informed by a childhood spent along the shores of Lake Ontario and by a sense of ecological urgency, her work reflects the understanding that, in the artist’s words, “environmental harm is not abstract but deeply intimate and shaped by daily consumption and discard.”

Jamieson and Price share important areas of connection in their distinct practices, both of which invite viewers to reflect on ways of generating acts of care and repair toward the land. Ultimately, I’ve Been Here Before evolves from an understanding that the living systems that sustain and surround us are not passive resources, but active relations whose well-being is deeply entwined with our own.

The artists would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council. Cathie Jamieson gives thanks to the traditional knowledge and stories of the land that have been shared over the years by Randy Trudeau and the Trudeau Family of Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island.

Opening Reception

The Art Gallery of Mississauga welcomes you to the opening reception on May 7 from 6:00 to 8:00pm. Refreshments will be provided, and the artists will be in attendance.

Programming

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About the Artists

Dr. Jill Price is an interdisciplinary artist who contributes to a growing discourse on art’s potential to enact ecological and ethical transformation. Grateful to be living on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe peoples in Barrie, Ontario, Price holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design from OCAD University and a research-creation PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions across the province, including at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie; Union Gallery, Kingston; OMAH, Orillia; Ontario Craft Council, Toronto; and YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, among others. Her scholarly publications include essays and chapters in journals and edited volumes, addressing topics such as textile activism, museum practices, and the role of art in environmental justice. Price’s work as an artist and scholarly research has been supported by grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), City of Barrie, Ontario Arts Council, Michael Smith Foreign Study Bursary, and Queen’s University, among others. In her curatorial practice, Price has worked within the private and public sector and currently serves as the Associate Curator and Collections Manager at Royal Victoria Health Centre in Barrie, Ontario.

Cathie Jamieson is an Anishinaabe artist from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation with Haudenosaunee family ties to Six Nation. She maintains a studio practice of painting, drawing, sculptures, photography, design, and print media, along with cultural awareness in craft making in sewing, beading, and leather works. Her practice is based on storytelling from her Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee identity. Themes in her work include history, the Dream Realm, traditional dancing, Clan Systems, natural elements, landscapes, figures, sounds and abstract forms. A graduate of the Art and Art History program at University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan, Jamieson has participated in exhibitions at the Woodland Cultural Centre and Museum in Brantford, and her work is regularly featured in solo exhibitions at the Mississaugas of the Credit Annual Powwow. She currently lives on Manitoulin Island in Wikwemikong Unceded Territory where her practice is informed by her land-based living practice and activities at the Eureka Miwe’e (Mi-Way-Eh) Camp in Northern Ontario, where she works with her husband to share traditional knowledge of the land and waters, seasonal medicine harvesting, hunting, trapping, fishing and cooking.

Funding for the Art Gallery of Mississauga is provided by the City of Mississauga, Canada Council for the Arts, TD Bank Group, Rama Gaming House, and Charitable Gaming Community Good.

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