Daniel Sharp, Red Grid 1
Art for Impact: Auction for The Ottawa Hospital’s New Campus Development
Presented by Kathryn Tremblay, in Memory of Toni Guimaraes
Meet the Artists
Christine Fitzgerald
Claudia Gutierrez
Daniel Sharp
David Gillanders
Dominique Normand
Drew Klassen
Étienne Gélinas
Florence Yee
Guillermo Trejo
Laurena Finéus
Marwa Talal
Michael Schreier
Michael Harrington
Natalie Bruvels
Nicole Krstin
Norman Takeuchi
Sarah Hatton
Susan Roston
Troy Moth
Whitney Lewis-Smith
Christine Fitzgerald
Christine Fitzgerald is a photo-based artist from Ottawa. Christine has always been captivated by nature. Her fascination began in her childhood, while growing up in the Eastern Townships of Québec, and has never abated. Her work is inspired by hidden histories and often deals with the relationship between humans and the natural environment, and the tension that this relationship inevitably creates.
A graduate of the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa, and Acadia and Dalhousie Universities, Christine completed an artist residency at the Ottawa School of Art, was an invited artist in residence in print media at York University, and was one of 15 visual artists selected for the historic Canada C3 Expedition on Canada’s 150th anniversary. The work inspired by her expedition experience was part of the Open Channels national exhibition recently held at the Canada Council for the Arts in Ottawa and is featured as part of the inaugural exhibition of the Portrait Gallery of Canada website.
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
Claudia Gutierrez
Claudia Gutierrez is a Latin-Canadian artist, culture worker and arts advocate whose practice has been deeply informed by residencies in Canada and Mexico. She has been exhibiting her work in Ontario and Quebec since 2010 and has completed numerous public art and cultural outreach projects in Ottawa. She was awarded the SAW Prize for New Works in 2020, is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and was recently awarded a public art project with Canadian Heritage.
Independent artist
Daniel Sharp
Daniel Sharp was born in Lacombe, Alberta and has lived in Ottawa since 1982. Sharp worked at Artspace Gallery in Peterborough Ontario (1980-82) and was Artistic Director at the Ottawa artist-run centre Gallery 101 (1989-91). From 1991 to 2017, he worked as a program officer, then manager and curator with the Canadian government’s art collection for embassies and diplomatic missions abroad. Sharp studied painting and design at York University in Toronto, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1979. He later undertook graduate studies in art and cultural theory at Carleton University in Ottawa (1985-89).
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
David Gillanders
David Gillanders was born in Toronto in 1968 and studied at the University of Western Ontario, London, and McGill University, Montreal. He is currently living and working in Ottawa, Canada. The recipient of grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Ontario Arts Council, David Gillanders has exhibited his work widely in Canada and the United States. His work is held in a number of notable collections, among them the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the MNBAQ Art Bank, the City of Ottawa Fine Art Collection, the Art Gallery of Northumberland, National Bank, Loto-Québec, and BMO Financial Group.
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
Dominique Normand
New academic painter Dominique Normand celebrates native culture and the nomadic Nordic spirit. Her paintings speak a vibrant language, revealing simple observations of precious moments in time and the sacred gifts of life. Instinctively, Normand lets a deep ‘knowing of the soul’ lead her way in her artistic practice. Embracing abstraction and figuration alike, she shares with her audience the omnipresent powers that imprint and shape the world of human experience. Underlying Normand’s practice is a strong, visceral bond with her Indigenous culture which has led her to research her paternal roots. In 2012, she discovered she is Métis of Maliseet descent.
Normand’s work has been showcased in many solo and group exhibitions within Canada and internationally, such as 11 Nations Cultural Centre, Murwillumbah Art Trail, Australia, Galerie Richelieu in Montréal, Saint Adolphe’s Manifest’Art in the Laurentians, Montmagny’s Rendez-Vous Ononthio, Broadway Gallery in New York, Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, Soutana Galerie and Jardin d’Hiver in Mont Tremblant, art galleries in Montebello, St-Jovite, Saint Sauveur, Piedmont, and many more. Normand has participated in residencies internationally and nationally. In July of 2017, Normand was selected to attend Leg 5 of the Canada C3 Expedition aboard the icebreaker Polar Prince. Her works have been featured in multiple publications, including Maclean’s Magazine, NYArts Magazine, and Echo du Nord Magazine. Normand currently lives in Baie St. Paul, Québec.
Artist represented by Wall Space Gallery
Drew Klassen
Drew Klassen was born in Toronto, spent his youth in Winnipeg, and in 1986 moved to Halifax, where he attended the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, and the Technical University of Nova Scotia, where he received a Master’s degree in Architecture. His landscapes are defined by an attempt to capture not the details but to use distance, in time and place, to try to remember how they felt, without being bound by precision—a kind of collection of moments, at speed. In the spirit of Monet’s haystacks, but from the window of a speeding vehicle, or a familiar perch.
Klassen’s work is held in numerous private, corporate and institutional collections in Canada and abroad, including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Archives of Ontario, and the Toronto Dominion Bank. In 2010 he received one of five Established Artist Recognition Awards presented annually by the government of Nova Scotia. He currently lives and works in Ottawa.
Artist represented by Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Étienne Gélinas
Originally from Maniwaki (Quebec), Étienne Gélinas completed a bachelor’s degree in arts and design from the Université du Québec en Outaouais in 2006. His work generates an interaction between artistic forms and representations of scientific languages.
His work has appeared at several individual exhibitions in painting and sculpture, notably at the Galerie d’art Époque, at the artist-run centre AXENÉ07, at the Casino du Lac-Leamy, at the Centre d’exposition Art-Image and at the Espace Odyssée of the Maison de la Culture de Gatineau, at the Galerie d’Avignon in Montreal, at the Galerie St-Laurent + Hill in Ottawa, at the Montcalm Gallery in Gatineau, at the Thompson Landry Gallery in Toronto, at the Lalande and Doyle Gallery at the Centre des Arts Shenkman in Ottawa as well as at the Chelsea Arts, Culture and Heritage Centre.
Artist represented by Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Florence Yee
Florence Yee is a 2.5-generation Cantonese visual artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Their interest in Cantonese-Canadian history has fueled an art practice examining the daily life of their diaspora through the lens of gender, racialization, and language.
Notable solo and duo exhibitions include Sino(n)-Québécoise (2018) at Never Apart, Le Salon (2018) at Articule and Lend Me Your Ears (2017) at Centre Regart. They have completed residencies at the Ottawa School of Art, the Concordia Fine Arts Reading Room, la Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, as well as the John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery. Having graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University, they are now pursuing an MFA at OCAD U in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design as a Delaney Scholar.
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
Guillermo Trejo
Guillermo Trejo is a Mexican/Canadian artist based in Ottawa. He completed his BFA at the National School of Painting Sculpture and Engraving in Mexico City, with a specialization in printmaking, and moved to Canada in 2007. The experience of immigration and distance has shaped Trejo’s work. Since moving to Ottawa, where he is currently based, he has earned an MFA from the University of Ottawa and has been an active member of the artistic community. He has exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Galerie Saw Gallery, and other artist-run centres across the country as well as in Europe and Mexico. Trejo has worked as a research consultant for the National Gallery of Canada and also teaches at the Ottawa School of Art (OSA).
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
Laurena Finéus
Born and raised in Gatineau, Québec, Laurena Finéus is a Haitian-Canadian visual artist, educator and art administrator specializing in painting. Currently based between Ottawa and Toronto, Finéus focuses on representations of Haiti and relationality within its diaspora through an array of figurative and painterly imagined landscapes. These elements are juxtaposed with personal memories of her life in Canada. The teachings of Haitian scholar Michel Rolph-Trouillot in ‘Silencing the past’ inform her understanding of visual narration in her practice.
Finéus’ work is held in a range of private collections internationally and has been exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery (2021), Karsh-Masson Gallery (2021), the Ottawa School of Art (2021), Art Mûr (2019) and Galerie 115 (2019-2020), among others. Finéus graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (2021), the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Art Scholarship (2020) and the Ineke Harmina Standish Memorial Scholarship (2019) and exhibited as a finalist for the Salt Spring National Art Prize (2021). Passionate about Black Canadian history and empowering her community through art, Finéus has previously facilitated a range of bilingual workshops for the Ottawa Art Gallery, Arts Network Ottawa, la Majeur Haute Spécialisation en Arts and l’Association Canadienne-francaise de l’Ontario.
Artist represented by Wall Space Gallery
Marwa Talal
Marwa Talal is a Sudanese-Canadian artist and interior designer based in Ottawa. Her artwork centres on topics of feminism, empowerment of minorities, and storytelling. With varied stories to tell, she employs a variety of mediums, including water colour painting, digital illustration, and ceramics.
Independent artist
Michael Schreier
Michael Schreier is a professional artist and photographer who has dedicated his considerable professional career to the celebration of both the public and private hero. Recent work includes Storyteller, Waiting for Words at the Ottawa Art Gallery, curator Emily Falvey, 2009, and the curating of the exhibition Dave Heath, A Heritage of Meaning, 2013 at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Selected works are represented in both public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the National Archives Photography Collection, the Agnes-Etherington Art Centre, the Canadian Portrait Gallery, Visual Studies Workshop, (Rochester, New York), Light Works Workshop, Syracuse New York, Carleton University Art Gallery, and the University of Ottawa Library Special Collections. Michael Schreier was the 2016 Karsh Award Recipient.
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
Micheal Harrington
Based in Ottawa. Michael Harrington’s abiding preoccupation is the depiction of the human form occupying suggestive and intimate narratives in scenes that are both familiar and enigmatic and are intended to invite reflection and empathy. Harrington applies his representational craft to a broad range of subject matter, including cinema, theatre, literature, music, family folklore, and personal memory.
Michael Harrington is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. He has exhibited extensively in venues across North America including the Glenbow Museum, the Ottawa Art Gallery, Galerie Saw Gallery and the Carleton University Art Gallery. His work has been presented in Border Crossings Magazine, Canadian Art, Harper’s Magazine and Contemporary Visual Art Magazine. He is represented in numerous public, corporate and private collections, including the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and the Agnes Etherington Centre in Kingston, as well as the personal collections of filmmakers Atom Egoyan and Jeremy Podeswa.
Artist represented by Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Natalie Bruvels
Natalie Bruvels is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in paint. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Ottawa and is currently pursuing an MFA at the same institution. Her artistic research explores relational identity including representations of maternal figures and single motherhood in art through a matricentric, feminist lens. Her work can be found in the City of Ottawa art collection as well as many private collections. Natalie lives in Ottawa with her son.
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
Nicole Krstin
Nicole Krstin is a self-taught Filipino-Canadian visual artist whose current body of work imagines the kinetic and complex process of cellular mutations as they metamorphose to create new fragments and figures. With a focus on the internal mechanisms of transformation in the body, Krstin explores and brings forward the inherent and ubiquitous nature of change and evolution.
Nicole Krstin has been featured in numerous exhibitions and art fairs within Canada and abroad, including The Artist Project (2020, 2019, 2018), Timeraiser at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (2018), and Daegu Art Fair in South Korea (2019). Her work can be found in private collections in Canada and the United States. Krstin currently lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband and children.
Artist represented by Wall Space Gallery
Norman Takeuchi
Norman Takeuchi was born in Vancouver, and some of his earliest memories are of the interior of BC where his parents were forced to relocate during World War II. Upon graduating from the Vancouver School of Art in 1962, he went to London, England, to focus on painting, and returned there in 1967 with a Canada Council grant. In 1996, he left a design career to once again focus on art and has since participated in many solo and group exhibitions. His work is represented in permanent collections at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada Council Art Bank, City of Ottawa, Carleton University Art Gallery, and in private collections in Canada and abroad.
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
Sarah Hatton
Sarah Hatton was born in the UK and raised in Barbados and Canada. She received her BFA from Queen’s University and her MFA from the University of Calgary, and is the recipient of numerous awards for art and academics. Her deep interest in human nature, mortality, patterns, and her insatiable curiosity about the natural world are found throughout her paintings and installation work. Her “Bee Works,” made from thousands of dead honeybees, received international acclaim, balancing artistry with advocacy, and winning the RBC Emerging Artist Award in 2014. Hatton lives and works in Chelsea, Quebec, one of Canada’s most creative and environmentally friendly communities.
Artist represented by Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Susan Roston
A mostly self-taught ceramic artist, Susan Roston lives in Ottawa, where she has her studio practice. A two-week solo residency with the late noted sculptor Jim Thomson solidified her commitment to art as a whole and allows her practice to not remain rooted in just one medium. Roston regularly teaches sculpture and pottery courses and workshops from her Enriched Bread Artists Studio.
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
Troy Moth
Canadian artist, photographer and film director Troy Moth’s award-winning photography has been exhibited worldwide and is showcased as part of the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of Victoria. He has worked for a variety of publications, including Rolling Stone and Vogue. His recent work as a filmmaker has been showcased at festivals around the globe. Troy has received many awards, including Magenta Flash Forward, Applied Arts and Toronto alternative film festival – best director.
From his start as an up-and-coming fashion photographer to his work as a visual artist in a remote town on Vancouver Island, Troy Moth traded in material success in pursuit of his higher purpose, fine arts, and has never looked back.
Artist represented by Studio Sixty Six Gallery
Whitney Lewis-Smith
Whitney Lewis-Smith is a Canadian photo-based artist. She attended the Studio Arts program at Concordia University, focusing on painting and drawing. She completed her photographic education at the School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa. In 2014, Lewis-Smith was awarded and attended a one-month production residency at the Arquetopia Foundation for the Arts in Mexico. Since graduating, her work has been acquired by prominent private collections in Canada and abroad, including that of the Canadian Prime Minister, the right honourable Justin Trudeau, as well as in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery of New Brunswick and the public art collection of the city of Ottawa.
Artist represented by Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
