KITCHEN at Sivarulrasa Gallery An Exhibition in Partnership with the Carleton Place & Beckwith Heritage Museum - theHumm June 2020
KITCHEN at Sivarulrasa Gallery An Exhibition in Partnership with the Carleton Place & Beckwith Heritage Museum - theHumm June 2020
Until July 10, Almonte’s Sivarulrasa Gallery is pleased to partner with the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum to present KITCHEN, an exhibition that elegantly combines works by four contemporary Canadian painters with artifacts of kitchens past from the Museum’s collection. This exhibition has been more than a year in the making, and the organizers are grateful to the artists for completing their paintings despite many challenges posed by the current pandemic. The exhibition can be viewed virtually or at the gallery (with physical distancing) — hours of operation are Wednesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm.
The kitchen is often called “the heart of the home”. The act of cooking, and of sharing a meal, has always been a powerful symbol of our culture, our history, and our identity. What we do in the kitchen connects us to our past, to our bloodlines. Covid-19 and stay-at-home orders have forced upon us a togetherness in our homes. The pandemic has led us back to the kitchen, the traditional gathering spot. The constant of the kitchen, and the joys and comforts we experience there, are helping us adapt to isolation. These joys and comforts will be there still when the pandemic recedes and we open our homes once again to welcome friends and family.
Artist Karen Haines sees the kitchen as a place of safety, where families gather, share stories and make memories for a lifetime. Her still life paintings pulsate with the energy of the everyday. Caroline Ji explores the intermingling of the kitchen and the artist studio, a space that combines brushes, cups, studio props and sinks. Cathy Ross aims to convey the uniqueness and special character of everyday objects in her watercolour works, exploring the intimacy and subtle joy of the ordinary. Gillian Willans’ depictions of interiors, including kitchens and everyday spaces, is both nostalgic and critical, steeped in questions of gender and social structures. Devoid of figures, her paintings invite the viewer to imagine each private space as a stage on which a range of social interactions play out.
The artifacts from the collection of the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum invite viewers to imagine and recollect the joys and tribulations of kitchens past. For example, a cast iron frying pan #3 produced at Findlay’s Limited in Carleton Place recalls the company’s range of frypans, numbered from 1 to 10. In operation for over 100 years, this family-owned foundry produced iron cookware, furnaces and woodstoves, including the best-selling Findlay Oval Cookstove.
Please visit sivarulrasa.com/exhibitions/kitchen for more photos, and virtualgallery.sivarulrasa.com for video clips. Sivarulrasa Gallery is located at 34 Mill Street in Almonte.
Where to Find the June Humm - theHumm June 2020
We’re heading out to deliver the June issue of theHumm! Because things have changed a wee bit since the last time we did our distribution, here’s a list of the places we will be trying to deliver to. Hours and more information can be found at the links. Happy Humm hunting!
Almonte:
Dandelion Foods dandelionfoods.ca
Don’s Meat Market donsmeatmarke......
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theHumm: You had me from the title, because hope seems to be one of the most precious “commodities” — albeit one that isn’t for sale ......
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theHumm: Your photos are stunning — can you tell us a bit about your training and background?
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Mar 17 St. Paddy's Day with The Celtic Kitchen Party
Mar 21 JW Jones Band
Mar 22 Art in the Manor
Mar 23 Kingston Choral Society Chamber Choir
Mar 29 Jason Kent
Mar 30 Andrew Hyatt
Apr 5 Maria Doyle Kennedy
Apr 5 - 6 Maple Weekend
Apr 5 - 6 Pakenham Maple Run Tour
- Peter Wood — Painting Is His Anchor
- Blue Skies — and Suzie Vinnick — in the Community
- Kingston Choral Society Chamber Choir to Perform at St. Paul’s, Perth
- Is it Time to Embrace a “Buy Canadian” Approach to Books?
- Hints of Spring Art Show
- Waterwalker Film Festival in Almonte
- Friends of the Tay Watershed AGM
- Hub Vintage Sale
- The Birds are Back in Town! MMLT’s Birdhouse Auction Returns
- A Forest, a Family, and a Tree
