Summer exhibition in full bloom at the Leyton Gallery

July 2024

What lies at the Water’s Edge? According to this group exhibition, all manner of gorgeous, evocative things, including, above, Tia Connolly‘s I’ll Go There Tonight in My Dreams (watercolour on mylar), below, John MacCallum‘s Muskrat Dreams (acrylic on canvas).

In Tilting I (acrylic on panel), we see a new medium from Malin Enstrôm.

This is just a sampling, take a moment to have a look: Water’s Edge continues throughout the summer. And don’t forget to check out our other downtown galleries, which all have great shows up and on the calendar: Red Ochre, Christina Parker, and Emma Butler.

BooksEssay

POWER/GRID: Graphic Depictions of War

BY Andrew Loman

“I chose a grid-system rather than free-form because it was a history. To me there’s something very stable about the nine-panel grid and I wanted that feeling for it.” So said the St John’s cartoonist Wallace Ryan, explaining the page design he has chosen for The Narrow Way, a graphic memoir about his grandfather’s experiences as a soldier in World War 1.

Q & A

The CBC and the SoE

During the January 17 blizzard and throughout the subsequent State of Emergency, radio was a lifeline: updating, connecting, advising, informing, and just darn reassuring. The hosts and crew at CBC…