“I often feel like what I am doing is science fiction,” says Turner “because these things haunt the present, and sci-fi is a great language for connecting with the ghosts.”

Canadian Art publishes 'Ottawa Art Walk'. At Central Art Garage (66 Lebreton St. N.), a reclaimed auto-mechanic shop in Chinatown, Danny Hussey and Bridget Thompson have created one of Ottawa's most exciting hubs for contemporary art.

Amalie Atkins' "Wundermarchen". CBC Radio 1 interview with Amalie Atkins about her solo exhibition Wundermarchen at Central Art Garage.

Saskatoon-based artist Amalie Atkins and curator Leah Taylor talk to Alan Neil about some of the surreal characters found in her "wonder tales." Central Art Garage News.

Michael Belmore, OCAD U's first Indigenous Visual Culture Nigig Visiting Artist talks about what is Indigenous art

Indigenous Visual Culture hosts artist Michael Belmore for its inaugural Nigig Visiting Artist Residency.

Jessica Bell’s solo exhibition “Fits and Starts” at Central Art Garage, a converted mechanic’s shop just off Lebreton Street North. The Vancouver-based Bell has been steadily unravelling the pretense that surrounds the art of painting. She’s worked on both sides of the canvas, has done away with stretchers and has laundered, folded, quilted, stitched, inflated—even made rugs from—her paintings.

Craig Leonard's Exhibition 'Shaken Antlers' at Central Art Garage, report by Peter Simpson for the Ottawa Citizen. Leonard’s piece is a low stage, covered with 24 cork mats, that stretches clear from one wall to the other. If you want to enter you cannot avoid the decision of whether to step on the art, and nobody is there to tell you right thing to do. Central Art Garage gallery news.

Highlights of the biennial included Frank Shebageget’s magisterial Curtain of Beavers (2009), which explores the relationship between Native communities and the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver float plane.

Artists Kristiina Lahde and Tammi Campbell are featured in the Apt613 review of the 'Hard To Look At' exhibition at Central Art Garage. Hard To Look At is in reference to the practice of using rulers, straight edges and measuring tapes to develop a defined edge for each small part of the greater piece. Interview with Danny Hussey by Jean McLernon. Central Art Garage, art gallery in Ottawa.

Michael Belmore exhibit Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor

The National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY, 2010-2011

Artists, and long-time high-school friends Michael Belmore and Frank Shebageget both from the Anishnaabe First Nation, have come together to unravel truths and their desire to honour their interrelated histories and encounters within a place integral to their nation, families and selves.

As humorous and pseudo-scientific as Göllner’s efforts are, they speak to a human desire to bring to life the human emotions and connections embedded in things from the past—a desire that is articulated, ironically, in exquisite objects that remain mute and enigmatic.

Some of the most thought-provoking exhibitions are the result of an exquisite balance of aesthetic and political concerns. Frank Shebageget’s solo exhibition “Light Industry” at Ottawa’s Carleton University Art Gallery was one of them.

The exhibition is a reflection of how we have dealt with the landscape of North America, our shorelines. How we impact our landscape.

Michael Belmore’s Solace made use of a smaller used ice-fishing shack sealed and wired to display gold-leaf inlayed river stones.

Micheal Belmore’s Smoulder consists of carved and fitted stones coming together to offer a feeling of warmth.

Turner’s fictional beauty-contest winner, Miss Canadiana, appears on plates and mugs commemorating her “homecoming” tour through Hamilton, Ontario.

Camille Turner, creator of The Resistance of Peggy Pompadour—a sonic walking tour tells the story of an enslaved woman from the town of York.

After learning about the Dish with One Spoon Treaty and wampum from artist Bonnie Devine and Elder Jan Longboat, the curators, Rachelle Dickenson and Lisa Myers invited artists who address land, trade, treaty and wampum in their work to consider this specific dish treaty.

Michael Belmore in Shapeshifters, a series of nine video profiles featuring Aboriginal artists in Ontario.