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Racquel Rowe’s exhibition The Centre of the World Was the Beach is a contemplative video installation about the connections between diaspora, family, memory, and the embodiment of nostalgia.  Rowe has synthesized a time out of space in the gallery. Upon entry, one is faced with a room of all-enveloping darkness, lit only by the glow…

Tom Wilson’s TAP exhibition tells the story of Mohawk resilience, cultural resurgence, and the lasting effects of residential school on families. Wilson discovered his Mohawk heritage and began to reconnect to his people at the age of 53.  Pointillistic dots are crowded in with spidery, frequently indiscernible script, referring to the colonial linguistics of the…

Indigenous resilience takes many forms. The shifting shape of endurance in the face of devastation manifests in digital video form at Museum London. Basket weaving is a part of the Anishinaabe way of knowing and being. Indigenous ways of being are not compartmentalized. Basket weaving is interconnected with community, family, craftsmanship, oral teachings, and with…

Within the framework of settler-colonialism, immigrants are placed under immense pressure to integrate and assimilate. How does one navigate this expectation while keeping oneself intact? Jongwook Park’s Breathing Words describes the patterns of linguistic and cultural migration for a Korean-Canadian settler. Biomorphic shapes and forms intermingle with Korean storytelling and myth. Transliterations of English and French words…

TOMPE (The Ontario Miniature Print Exhibition) has returned to London, Ontario. On display at the ever-valuable TAP Centre, Print London brings local printmakers and their skill to the forefront. What results is a diversity of ability and technique, of color and method, line and shape.  Printmaking as a medium offers tactile unpredictability; no artist can fully predict the…

The queer body is a hot button issue right now. In the heart of the backlash, the validity of queer bodies is hotly debated for their divergence from the norm. Yet the elemental foundation of queer bodies is human flesh— flawed, aging, porous human flesh. Brittany/Andrew Forrest explores the unfamiliar familiarities of queer bodies. Brittany/Andrew uses two…

Museum London’s new exhibition Under Metallic Skies features the work of Christina Battle, connecting her many projects. Battle is an Edmonton, Alberta based artist who earned her Ph.D at Western University. Battle’s environmental art focuses on climate change, land dynamics, and destruction.  “Notes to self” is a video piece featuring a burning piece of paper which reads “The…

Brazilian born Ian Indiano has something important to show you at TAP. SOOT, features a small serious of Indiano’s charcoal drawings. The dark, expressive pieces pull depth from the corners of darkness. The exhibition delves into the elemental nature of carbon as the building block of all life and existence, and where all things return…

The Forest City’s Pride season is here again and with it comes the London Pride Art Show. Hosted at TAP, this show offers a platform to local 2SLGBTQIA artists from amateurs to professionals. In a time when queer people and their rights to exist are under constant attack, sharing narratives of 2SLGBTQIA joy is very…