Margins & Peripheries
The Durham Art Gallery's
2025 Juried Exhibition & Fundraiser
Opening Reception on Saturday, February 8, 2025, 2pm-4pm
above: Opening reception, February 8, 2025
Ann-Ida Beck
Ken Bryson
Monique Cambpell
Christine Campbell
Ann Chaban
Deri Chilton Russel
Jennifer Clark
Manuela De Medeiros
Paul Drysdale
Sylvia Elliott
Christine Fry
Cindy Habart
Peter Harris
Gregor Herman
Janice Hindley
Jenny Iserman
Breanne Jeethan
Dianne Joyce
Judith Pace K
2025 Participating Artists
Lydia Knox
Rachel Kochistry
Cindy Matthews
Kristina Maus
Jansje Muis-Holmes
Philip V. Murphy
Frank Myers
Jennifer Osborn
Laurel Pederson
Katherine Percival
Robert Pointer
Susan Rankin
Debbie Schenk
Carol Sebert
Michael Springate
Lorina Stephens
Donna C. Stewart
Ofra Svorai
Natalie Vanderzand
Award Winners
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PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
*to be announced at the end of the show
Margins & Peripheries
Edges or borders.
The fringe, limit or boundary.
The outer limits, the outskirts or the perimeter.
Inspired by the boundless possibilities that shimmer in the margins of daily life, this exhibition invites artists to explore the peripheries of conventionality, and the marginalia of the mundane. We encourage artists to walk in another person’s shoes, to consider how our experiences might be altered by unfamiliar perspectives. What happens when your unique point of view or attitude shifts? How does an experience change when seen from unexpected perspectives? How can an altered vantage point reframe a narrative?
This call for creative submissions is a challenge to artists to make work that conveys the unexpected complexities that lurk beyond the boundaries of words, labels or names. We invite you to dive into the marginalia and share your creative interpretation.
Jury:
Shannon Bingeman
Corrina Ghaznavi
Clayton Windatt
Shannon Bingeman is a curator based in southern Ontario. She received her Honours BA from the University of Waterloo (2011) and her MA in art history from Carleton University (2013). She has worked as an arts professional throughout Ontario and Alberta for over 15 years at organizations such as the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Waterloo), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleinberg), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) and the Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre (Medicine Hat). In 2015, she was awarded an Emerging Curator Fellowship from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and worked as a curator and program manager for their Travelling Exhibition Program. Bingeman is currently the Curator of Exhibitions & Collections at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, ON.
Corinna Ghaznavi is an independent curator and freelance writer. Since 1997 she has curated exhibitions across Canada. Her writing has been published in Canadian and European art magazines as well as in numerous exhibition catalogues. In 2011 she completed her PhD, which focused on the question of the animal in contemporary art. Ghaznavi was the Artistic Director of the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film between 2012 and 2015 in Durham Ontario, and Public Art Coordinator for the City of Markham, Ontario between 2013 and 2017. She has taught art history, theory, and curatorial practices at Georgian College, University of Western Ontario, Sheridan College and the Ontario College of Art and Design University. Ghaznavi lives and works in Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
Clayton Windatt is a curator, multi-arts performer and filmmaker living and working in Ontario. As the former Executive Director of the White Water Gallery, Indigenous Curatorial Collective and current Executive Director of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference, Clayton has an extensive history working in Artist-Run Culture and Community Arts. Clayton maintains contracts with various governments, colleges and non-government organizations as a writer, consultant and knowledge broker negotiating between peoples, places and communities. Clayton works in/with community, design, communications, curation, performance, theatre, technology, and consulting, and is a very active artist.