Exhibitions

Open: Tuesday, February 1 – Saturday, March 19, 2022
Reception: Friday, March 18 | 7 – 9 PM

Vicky Talwar is an interdisciplinary Whitchurch-Stouffville artist who draws upon her personal experience as a Hindu-Canadian to produce painting, mixed media and installation artwork. In her artistic practice, she addresses themes of cultural hybridity, displacement, movement and memory. Latcham Art Centre is pleased to host Vicky Talwar’s recent work which also serves as her Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media & Design thesis exhibition with the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U).

In her paintings, she expresses the contrasts of her identity by embracing both vibrant colour and textured materiality. Talwar uses reoccurring spiritual motifs including intertwining flower garlands, mala beads, sacred threads and salt to create a sense of presence and intention while playful brushstrokes and an atmospheric background produces a feeling of liminality and transcendency. Her salt-based installations explore similar themes. Inspired by ritualistic qualities of the mandala, she uses salt as a purifying and healing material to accentuate her spirituality and highlight the space between what is tangible and what is a distant memory. Acting as a self-portrait of her enlightening individuality, Inward Identities showcases Vicky Talwar’s relationship with art throughout her life and encourages our community to engage with their own cultural experiences through the visual arts.

Free Mandala Colouring Pages

_{Clip from Vicky Talwar’s Video Performance of A Moment To Myself | Featuring Buddhist Monk, Lama Jam | Video Production by Moe Marino}

Enter the Virtual Exhibition

Latcham Art Centre is thrilled to be partnering once again with the graduating class of Stouffville District Secondary School (SDSS) in the exhibition A Shattered Symphony. For over two decades, the grade twelve art students from SDSS have worked with the Art Centre’s curator to mount a professional exhibition that presents the artworks they have created over the course of their first semester. This year, due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, this annual exhibition will be launched exclusively online through the Latcham Art Centre website on December 14, 2021.

It is important to recognize that these students represent the next generation of artists from the Whitchurch-Stouffville community and this creative online platform provides them an accessible space for the community to view their talents. In addition to creating works that respond to their senior education curriculum, students are also responsible for conceiving a curatorial theme, project title and class statement describing the exhibition.

This year, the class was inspired by modern artists, environmental art as well as their own experience and resilience as young artists during the pandemic. On behalf of the class, artist Vanessa Simoes states, “In these times, many of us have decided or have been forced to work with what we are given. In this capacity, we have become used to not having canvas, paint brushes, or paint, and because of this, we have inaugurated our own concepts of modern art. Much like modern artists, our own stylistic choices are evident when viewing this exhibition.”

_{Artwork by SSDS students Vanessa Simoes and Vivian Nguyen, 2021.}

Open: Friday March 25 – Saturday, April 23, 2022
Reception: Friday, March 25 | 7 – 9 PM

This exhibition offers artists working in all media the opportunity to have their work evaluated by three visual art professionals serving as jurors. The public can discover a variety of work exploring ideas and themes by contemporary artists from all over Ontario while the Curator has the chance to engage with hundreds of Ontario-based artists.

Submission Form

Latcham Art Centre | Annual Juried Exhibition 2019