Art Exhibits
Ranger Station Art Gallery
98 Rockwell Drive
Admission by donation
This exhibit will be on display from July 6th- 30th. During the Festival, the hours are 9:00am to 5:00pm daily. For the remainder of the month, the exhibit is open from 10:00am to 4:00pm, Monday to Friday, and 1:00pm to 4:00pm on weekends. Closed from July 21 and 24th.
Brought to you by: The Harrison Festival Society, The Kent Harrison Arts Council
This year’s exhibit will actually feature two shows but two artists, Sylvie Roussel-Janssens and Alyssa Schwann.
Inside the Gallery
Mend by Sylvie Roussel-Janssens
“If we can make small gesture of repair, perhaps we can have the courage to fix our broken world.”
Mend is the title for the exhibition project at the Ranger Station Art Gallery. The sustainable art practice in sculpture melds embroidery and environmental concerns. In my recent work, I transferred my experience in textile work to plastic waste material. The plastic debris was gathered in the Fraser Valley during the pandemic. Stitching is healing. If we can make small gesture of repair, perhaps we can have the courage to fix our broken world. Mend is a series of 28 embroidered recycled plastic. This number is a way for women to measure time. It symbolizes the phases of the moon and also refers to the effect of plastic on the hormonal system. We are surrounded by plastic and it affects our body and our mind. Eco-anxiety is real and I find stitching to be is healing and meditative. It is a good way to process emotions and thoughts as I am facing difficult decisions regarding adapting to climate change. All the pieces were made with discarded plastic objects, drilled and threaded with masonry twine.
Outside the Gallery
Alyssa Schwann
The works exhibited are temporary interventions, “drawing” with string, and continue Alyssa Schwann’s ongoing studies in the intersection of “art + ecology”, examining the temporal and formal relationships between land and place. The work is intended as a meditation on an understanding of the need to nurture a deep relationship to place, using the Coastal Western Hemlock forest—and string—as the subjects.
Join us on Thursday, July 6th at 7pm for our opening reception at the Ranger Station Art Gallery. Refreshments and goodies will be served.
Spirit Trail
Ernie Eaves
The Spirit Trail is a short walk (1km) through a wonderful piece of west coast cedar rainforest.
Located on the east side of Harrison Hot Springs, the trail gets its spiritual feel from ceramic masks and faces that artist Ernie Eaves has placed among the trees.
Ernie became involved in ceramic arts soon after his retirement as a high school teacher. He has a small studio in his garage that he shares with his artist wife, Irene.