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SURVIVE. RESIST: Walter van Broekhuizen
Walter van Broekhuizen's Green Room is a room for a tree – a round space that changes the natural context to create another way of experiencing and looking at a tree.
The artist states that he is interested in the creation of an authentic space. His art considers the mental and physical experience of space, observation and perception and how the power of the human condition can influence them.
Walter van Broekhuizen studied at the Akademie Sint Joost in Breda and attended the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam where he was a finalist of the Prix de Rome for Drawing in 1998. Walter has worked as an artist in South Africa, Norway, France,Indonesia and Canada, and has exhibited internationally. His commissioned work can be seen throughout the Netherlands.
He lives and works in Amsterdam.
SURVIVE. RESIST: Broken City Lab
Broken City Lab installed its intervention "REFLECT ON HERE" directly in front of the Kitchener City Hall. A sign built with 8-foot-tall letters coated in retro-reflective material, which refelcted the lights of each turning vehicle from dusk until dawn. REFLECT ON HERE called on people to think about the infrastructure of the city, the attempt to create place with architecture, and the materiality of the text itself.
Broken City Lab is an artist-led interdisciplinary creative research group that tactically disrupts and engages the city, its communities, and its infrastructures to re-imagine the potential for action in the collapsing post-industrial city of Windsor, Ontario.
SURVIVE. RESIST: Mary Catherine Newcomb
"Souvenir," at the Cambridge Sculpture Garden, was an earthwork by Mary Catherine Newcomb -- a giant hare of earth and grass. As the grass (fur) grew, it was trimmed to bring out a variety of fur-like shapes. According to the artist, the title of this piece refers to the recollection of a time when the natural world was considered animate.
Mary Catherine Newcomb is a sculptor who works in a variety of sculptural media. She has been producing organic, garden-based sculpture for several years. Her work is regularly shown at Loop Gallery in Toronto and she has completed several public commissions. Recent exhibitions include Product of Eden, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Faithful and Faithless Messengers, Loop Gallery, Toronto, and Chocolate, Loop Gallery, Toronto, (2010) and Product of Eden, Loop Gallery, Toronto, (2008). Mary Catherine Newcomb received her Honours BA in Fine Art from the University of Waterloo, and her MFA from York University in Toronto.
Souvenir is presented in partnership with the Cambridge Sculpture Garden.
