Spring 2025 Exhibitions at Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives

A Daily Drive outdoor banners at PAMA

New exhibitions at PAMA address urgent climate change challenges

PAMA Spring Reception: Friday, May 23, 2025, 7 – 9pm
Exhibitions on now until September 7, 2025

Join us for a special evening celebration of PAMA’s new art gallery exhibitions Dark Ice: Leslie Reid and Robert Kautuk, Jude Griebel: Illuminated Collapse and our new outdoor banner feature titled A Daily Drive. These three new exhibitions focus on the challenges of climate change. Join artists Leslie Reid, Jude Griebel and Ottawa Art Gallery Curator Rebecca Basciano for a walk through of the exhibitions and enjoy some light refreshments.

Free admission event. Registration is required by emailing: PAMAEventRSVP@peelregion.ca

A Daily Drive

Inuk photographer Robert Kautuk captures the vast beauty of the Artic landscape in a low-angle photograph, featured on PAMA’s outdoor banners. Photography is an important part of Kautuk’s everyday life, as he captures key moments, activities, and scenes from his world. During this trip, Kautuk and his team are driving to check the Akuliaqattak and Nattiqsujuq weather stations. These stations track the changing climate in the North. The weather stations are part of the Silalirijiit Project, which combines Inuit knowledge with science to help solve the urgent problems caused by climate change.

This project is in partnership with CONTACT Photography and the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG).

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Jude Griebel inside the Illuminated Collapse exhibition on now at PAMA

Jude Griebel: Illuminated Collapse

Illuminated Collapse is a collection of small sculptures that explore stories of the world’s end. Each scene built on a round base, depicts strange and unsettling events. These miniature worlds reflect our modern life, highlighting issues like consumerism, industry, and pollution, and their damaging impact on the environment. The exhibition invites us to consider how our everyday actions are connected to larger global challenges and the future of the Earth.

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Dark Ice: Leslie Reid and Robert Kautuk

Rebecca Basciano, Curator, Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) Climate change is significantly impacting ecosystems worldwide, especially in northern landscapes and communities. In these areas, Inuit knowledge and ways of building community are at risk. To address these challenges, it’s important to use different approaches, combining the knowledge of both Inuit and settler communities.

Dark Ice shows how the artistic, studio, and land-based practices of Leslie Reid from Ottawa, Ontario, and Robert Kautuk from Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River), Nunaut, come together. The exhibition includes important curatorial work and features photographs, paintings, and videos of Arctic land, ice, and communities, showing their experiences with climate change.

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PAMA is a place to explore and learn about Peel region’s culture and heritage, as well as use conversation, questions, and stories to help make new and fascinating connections to the surrounding community. Throughout the year, PAMA offers a variety of workshops and programs for all ages, families, and adults. With so many different programs to choose from, PAMA has something for everyone. Operated by Peel Region, PAMA is located at 9 Wellington Street East in Brampton. Visit pama.peelregion.ca or call 905-791-4055 to learn more.