The Comox Valley Art Gallery hosts one or more visual artists at the McLoughlin Gardens during the months of May and June. These residencies are by invitation. To find out more about the Curated Residency Program, visit Comox Valley Art Gallery.

2023 Artists-in-Residence

Trisha Wasney and Richard Dyck
Reva Stone and Diana Thorneycroft
Lori Weidenhammer

Summer ‘23 Events

June 15 is the date for the opening of the exhibit “Together Apart / Under One Roof,” taking place at the Comox Valley Art Gallery at 580 Duncan Avenue in Courtenay. If you can’t attend in person, you can sign up to attend the opening on Zoom.

Details:
Aganetha Dyck | Diana Thorneycroft | Reva Stone

THURSDAY, June 15 @ 6PM | doors open + refreshments @ 5PM

Artists Diana Thorneycroft + Reva Stone will be present to give an artist talk. Aganetha Dyck will join us virtually to talk about her work, creative process, and relationship with Reva and Diana as studio mates over a period of twenty-eight years.

HYBRID Event — Attend in-person at CVAG or watch the live-stream
CLICK HERE to watch on Zoom — Webinar ID: 875 5770 7598

Public / All Ages / Free — DONATIONS are welcome

PUBLIC HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS — we ask that visitors choose not to visit if they are experiencing symptoms of colds and flus. Hand sanitation dispensers are available at CVAG. Wearing a mask is at the discretion of the visitor.

PLEASE NOTE — the artwork exhibited in GATHER:PLACE and the George Sawchuk Media Gallery contain sensitive visual and thematic content related to warfare, nudity and pandemic.

2022 Artist-in-Residence
Marlene Creates

Works from Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland 2002–2021
Œuvres réalisées au chemin Blast Hole Pond, Terre-Neuve 2002–2021

An installation / community engagement / site specific research residency while staying at the McLoughlin Gardens.

The Comox Valley Art Gallery continues it’s place-based programming with land/lens/text-based artist Marlene Creates (pronounced “Kreets”) whose practice has been an exploration of the relationship between human experience, memory, language and the land, and the impact they have on each other. Creates is an environmental artist and poet, whose art practice includes photography, video, scientific and vernacular knowledge, walking and collaborative site-specific performance with the more-than-human world that surrounds her. Creates lives and works in the six-acre patch of old-growth boreal forest where she lives at the edge of the 920-acre Blast Hole Pond Conservation Area in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

2019 Artist-in-Residence
Rachel Grenon

Ceramicist Rachel Grenon was in residence at the McLoughlin Gardens from mid-May to late June, 2019. She was part of the group exhibition, “Hold. Being Held.” at the Comox Valley Art Gallery, which closed September 7, 2019. In the second and third photos below, Rachel is shooting photos of her ceramic boats for the “Water Effect” part of her installation at the gallery.

2018 Artists-in-Residence

Visiting artists, Valerie Salez and Lindsay Delaronde, and curator, Toby Lawrence completed their residency at the McLoughlin Gardens. Their exhibit Touching Earth Bodies at the Comox Valley Art Gallery closed June 29, 2018.

Previous visiting artists

Saskatchewan artists Joanne Bristol and Barbara Meneley spent the month of July, 2016 at the McLoughlin Gardens as our first artists-in-residence. Workshops, collaborations, field trips and an exhibition were all part of the Comox Valley Art Gallery's programming under the umbrella theme of Make/Art/Place. For a description and images, please see this review by Galleries West.

In 2017 the Comox Valley Art Gallery invited multi-disciplinary artist Rita McKeough to be in residence from June 1 - July 19. Her remarkable multi-media exhibit Veins/Listen/Cul de Sac closed on September 30th, 2017.