Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
SUMMER 2025
Brought to our knees to feel as a Rock
Danielle Petti, MFA Candidate
Exhibition: July 24 – August 7, 2025
Reception: Thursday, July 24 from 5-7pm
artLAB Gallery
As my thesis exhibition, Brought to our knees to feel as a Rock is the culmination of my research-creation practice over two years. It encompasses the (re)connecting with Land through found colour from rock, the mark-making by transformation, the repurposing of found materials to echo geological formations, and the re-enactment of deep time using paper pulp. Creating modular, repeated, yet distinct, components that build into a larger whole, the work expresses the universe’s sculptural tendencies.
To feel as a rock is to have awareness without self. To feel as a rock is to embrace and contribute to geological and other nonhuman processes. To feel as a rock is to escape human notions of time.
kawistana·wʌ́s | it melts
Cassie Packham and Sebastian Evans
Exhibition: July 24 – August 7, 2025
Reception: Thursday, July 24 from 5-7pm
Cohen Commons
What is submerged reemerges in smoke and mist. Where the tangible fades and the uncertain begins, we surface. This body of work dwells in the liminal – the space where the visible fractures and the invisible breathes. Through metaphor, material and gesture, we traverse the deep currents of empathy, perception and becoming.
The iceberg holds what is hidden; fire reveals what burns beneath. In this convergence, we trace the silent forces that shape us: trauma and tenderness, rupture and renewal. We seek reciprocity, not only in understanding one another, but in honouring the shared pulse that connects us across layers of experience. Presented is a threshold where stories intertwine and transformation emerges through vulnerability, dialogue and resonance.
Cassie Packham is an Onyota'a:ka (Oneida) artist born and raised in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia). Her work considers rearrangement, oscillation, transmission and reciprocity in manifestations of writing, video, sculpture, sound, installation, printed matter, drawing and performance. Enduring interests include the use of personal narrative to interrupt dominant modes of understanding, representations of media and its effects/affects, natural movement, and the body as resistance. In 2011 Cassie graduated from NSCAD with a BFA in Intermedia. In 2022, they were awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant and a Nova Scotia Arts Grant for Individuals for their on-going art explorations of the metaverse. Cassie is presently based in London, Ontario and is pursuing their Master of Fine Arts at Western University.
Sebastian Evans is a multidisciplinary artist working between conceptual and visual means with themes of social protest, language, politics, cultural turmoil, “might vs. right” and many more. Driven by a strong need to respond to a rapidly changing world he works on a large scale with an interest in installation, text as image, and the increasingly blurred line between signal and noise. He embraces overtures of grunge, punk, mental illness and apophenia, the globalized world and the connective/collective hivemind that is the internet - paired with an urge to call out growing polarization; always asking do we like where we are going?
Sebastian has a BA Honours English Language and Literature from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Western University. He is an emerging artist in London, Ontario.
