It has been an exciting week at the Elora Centre for the Arts.
With the help of a wonterful crew of volunteers, gallery curator Julie Rene De Cotret painted the previously black walls of the Minarovich Gallery back to white in time for the August 4, 2011 opening of our newest exhibition, Peter Sibbald’s ‘Elegy for a Stolen Land’. Peter’s show will be on display until September 11, 2011 and is more than worth stopping by to see.
From the artist’s statement:
The riveting photographs of Peter Sibbald reveal the contested meanings and opportunities of the soil we live on. Upon returning to an area of Ontario where seven generations of his family has lived (even lending their name to Sibbald Point), he was surprised at the rate of development and urbanization. As he began to question the nature of our relationship with the land, including the concept of “land use”, a series of events increased his project’s scope: the Ipperwash Inquiry, the disputation of lands in Caledonia, the pronouncement of the Golden Horseshoe’s “Green Belt,” and the steady attrition of farmland.”
The Minarovich Gallery is open Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm, Saturday and Sunday, 1:00pm – 3:30pm.
