The second exhibition of the season brings together seven artists whose work asks what materials can hold. These artists work with surfaces that already carry history: clay gathered from the prairie landscape, wood marked by years of growth, metal shaped by previous use, and images transformed through hands-on processes.

Haylee Janai, Annette Henderson, and Lee Beaton each approach ceramics as a site of experimentation. Janai’s expressive forms consider identity and sensory experience in a digitized world, while Henderson’s wild clay practice begins with the land itself, using prairie clay and traditional hand-building processes to explore the colours and characteristics of local material. Beaton reimagines familiar ceramic forms through sculptural detail and narrative, turning the everyday teapot into something playful and unexpected.

Bronwyn Lutz-Greenhow and Madelyn Gowler work with photography, film, cyanotype, textiles, and installation to explore the physical life of images. Lutz-Greenhow’s atmospheric works invite slow looking, using analog processes and found materials to consider memory and place. Gowler’s experimental practice similarly focuses on process and transformation, asking how images and objects change through use, placement, handling, and time.

Pamela Gerbrandt’s tree-ring prints reveal salvaged wood as a living record, preserving the lines, textures, and histories carried within each tree. Pierrette Sherwood transforms reclaimed metal, agricultural implements, and found objects into sculptural works that give new life to materials shaped by labour, age, and use.

Together, the exhibition invites visitors to look closely at the stories embedded in the materials around us — and at the new forms those materials can take in the hands of artists.

Free to attend. All are welcome to the Opening Reception on Saturday, June 20 at 7pm to hear the artists speak about their work and creative practice.