Woodstock Art Gallery Sends Delegation to United Kingdom

Tuesday, 17 January 2023 12:10

By Robert Van Ryswyck

Canada House, home of the High Commission of Canada, in Trafalgar Square, London, England.

Director Curator Mary Reid will be alongside Mayor Jerry Acchione for the opening of the Many Lives Mark This Place Exhibition at the High Commission of Canada.

UNITED KINGDOM - The Woodstock Art Gallery is honoured to be sending a delegation to the Canada House in London England.

Director Curator Mary Reid will be alongside Mayor Jerry Acchione for the opening of the Many Lives Mark This Place Exhibition at the High Commission of Canada.

The exhibition features the work of prominent Canadian artist John Hartman. His work depicts award-winning Canadian authors in front of the landscapes that inspire them.

Communications Coordinator for the Woodstock Art Gallery Robin De Angelis says the exhibition first toured around Canada with the help of Reid.

"This has been something that Mary has been involved in from its inception, organizing and circulating the exhibition to the various galleries around Canada. The exhibition in England, she's been kind of there on the ground getting everything prepared for that (too)."

The Woodstock Art Gallery hosted the exhibition during the spring of last year where they also were selling a book that compiles comments from the authors on their portraits. The book is still available at the office.

De Angelis says the Art Gallery is very excited for the exhibition opening on January 19th and for the role that they have played in bringing Hartman's work to an international audience.

"This is a really great honour to be part of this exhibition. We are a very small gallery but we're also very mighty."

(Many Lives Mark This Place exhibition at the Canada Gallery in Canada House. Submitted photo)

(John Hartman, Canadian (b. 1950), Esi Edugyan, Victoria, 2018, oil on linen, 48 x 54 inches, Private Collection, Photo Credit: Joseph Hartman.)

(John Hartman, Canadian (b. 1950), MG Vassanji above Woburn Avenue, 2019, oil on linen, 60 x 66 inches, Courtesy of Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto)