Happenings
At The Gallery House in Bayfield you will fall in love with our passion for the arts and The Art of Living. Please visit our gallery at 16 The Square at the top of Clan Gregor Square beside the Albion Hotel and we will welcome you with enthusiasm and knowledge of Art.
Please ask about art talks that are held in the gallery and join in on the fun. We pride ourselves in consulting on art and working with designers. We are specialized in sourcing furniture by known designers that are iconic for their furniture art.
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We want your Art buying experience to be as pleasurable as possible so we are here for you to scheduling private viewings at the gallery.
If you'd like to book a private viewing of the gallery please pick a time below. Viewings slots are 1 Hour each and we will be more than happy to talk about your art needs and show you some of our artist’s work. We will have on hand the artist’s background information and hopefully, help you find the perfect piece for your home.
You can also book a group viewing (school, art class) as we are here to answer any questions you may have about a work of art or an artist on an educational level.
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New Artist joining Skwirl Gallery/The Gallery house Bayfield 2023
Join us in welcoming Aidan Urquhart to the Gallery.
Please visit the Gallery to view the many facets of Aidan’s work and relationship with our Canadian life.
Join us in welcoming Sue A. Miller to the Gallery.
Please visit the Gallery to view the many seasons of Sue’s work and relationship with our Canadian landscape.
Event of the season July 9th, 2022
Please join us in celebrating this body of work.
Last Light is a haunting new series resulting from artist Christine Fitzgerald’s visual inquiry along the St. Lawrence River, as she engages with 19th discourses of natural history specimen collecting and in-progress environmental stewardship to protect vulnerable coastal places and species. Her work is centered on the exploration of our relationship with the natural world with underlying themes of time, precarity, and loss, and the role that photography plays in shaping human experience with these universal aspects of life. Fitzgerald’s images are formed from her meticulous resuscitation and mastery of obsolete photographic techniques, creating new hybrid modes of seeing by entwining wet plate collodion camerawork and specialized printing techniques such as pigmented impressions on platinotypes. The images of Last Light are cloaked in blue, referencing the diminishing capacity for completely dark night sky in the face of human industry and climate change. Fitzgerald’s blue twilight is an elegy to our present moment – caught between the “deep” time of life on Earth, and the advancing effects of the Anthropocene age.
Artist Statement
In creating the works in Last Light, I am bringing back to life historical methods from photography’s past and manipulating images working with modern digital technologies to push the boundaries of the medium. The images in this series present vulnerable places and species at risk along the majestic St. Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic coast. I have used a blue as a tool to express how we are ultimately all connected with the health of the planet. Last Light connects the revival of obsolete technologies of seeing with the urgent imperative to witness the precarity of the natural world in our present time.
The project was supported with grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
Book Signing Events 2021
James Kirkpatrick catalogue TO THE UNSEEN FUTURE
Are now available in the gallery, please come in to purchase your signed copy.
Allen Smutylo Latest Book
Signed copies in the gallery for purchase.
The Mongolian Chronicles – A Story of Eagles, Demons and Empires
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New Artists joining Skwirl Gallery/The Gallery house Bayfield
2021
Miville new to gallery Oct 2021
Zara Gardner New to the Gallery August 2021
Leslie Putnam New to Gallery May 2021
Jeff Willmore New to the gallery November 2021