Collection Friday!

How’s everyone doing with their “healthy eating” New Year’s Resolution? Here’s some inspiration from Ottawa photographer Justin Wonnacott to eat fresh fish! (And some recipes to get you going.)

Justin Wonnacott, There are more carp raised for food thanany other fish, and no two look alike, from the series I Remember and I Forget, 2010. Inkjet on paper.

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In memory of Kenojuak Ashevak’s passing today, here is her stonecut print ‘My Birds’ (1975) from our collection.

Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

We’ve also got Tony Fouhse’s moving photo-series Live Through This. Here isSteph withdrawing from heroin in my studio, Ottawa, April 2011.

Gearing up for our Winter ‘13 Exhibitions! We’ve got two incredible shows opening on the 14th.

From Jamelie Hassan’s retrospective, Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words, here is ي (Manuscript Page) (2005). For this work, Hassan rendered the last letter of the Arabic alphabet ي (pronounced “yaa”) in red neon light and mounted it on the page of the Persian/Arabic grammar manuscript illustrated with the Archangel Gabriel.

The red colour of the letter يrefers to the red ink used in Arabic to highlight the beginning of a new thought.

(With text from Dot Tuer’s At the Far Edge of Home essay in the Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words catalogue)

Collection Friday!

John Hartman, Snow Squall over Griquet, 1997.

Two colour drypoint on wove paper.

Collection Friday! (Holiday Edition)

Fran Jones,Christmas Card, 1955.

Linocut on paper.