Presenting recent sculptures by Anishinaabe/French artist Caroline Monnet, Pizandawatc explores language reclamation, ancestral memory, and intergenerational transmission. The title, meaning “the one who listens,” honours Monnet’s great‑grandmother and reflects a receptive way of being central to her practice.
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Jackson’s Wars: A.Y. Jackson before the Group of Seven explores rarely seen works from his travels in Europe and rural Canada, including powerful First World War battlefield paintings, offering a fresh perspective on the legacy of one of Canada’s most significant artists.
Highlighting a recent gift from Salah Bachir and Jacob Yerex, this exhibition pairs Betty Goodwin with David Altmejd. Both artists explore memory, loss, and life’s ephemerality through inventive materials and imagery, with works spanning Goodwin’s career and Altmejd’s major 2007 sculpture.
People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie includes more than 100 photographs taken by John Macfie (1925–2018), a settler trapline manager who worked in Northern Ontario in the 1950s and 1960s.
Wolves: The Art of Dempsey Bob offers a personal encounter with the work of the leading carver of British Columbia’s Northwest Coast, and an immersive experience of the Tahltan and Tlingit mainland cultures. This first-ever retrospective surveys Dempsey Bob’s development from his early days as a student of legendary female carver Freda Diesing through to his late career masterworks, which advance the traditions of carving in the 21st century.
For her exhibition at the McMichael, leading contemporary Canadian artist Sandra Meigs takes inspiration from the wilds of Ontario. Over the course of the various pandemic lockdowns, Meigs retreated from her home in Dundas, Ontario to the woods of Algonquin Park and Lake Calabogie. Compelled by this time in nature, Meigs created a series of vibrant and penetrating gouache studies, works that recall the legacies of such notable women modernists as Emily Carr and Georgia O'Keeffe.
In a time when our human relationship to the natural world is rapidly changing, this exhibition pulls together artists who are registering their experience in ways that intrigue, caution and entrance.
