artLAB 2024-2025

Fall 2024


artLAB Gallery:over and over and over and
Cohen Commons: Test Site
EVENT:Meet and Greet
artLAB Gallery:Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Cohen Commons: RiverFest2024



over and over and over and
Curated by Katie Lawson
Tia Bates , Masha Kouznetsova, Danielle Petti
Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4-6PM
artLAB Gallery

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To work with residue, refuse, salvage, and waste necessitates moving through the world with openness and curiosity, slowly gathering materials over time and through various means. This is not mere 'resourcefulness' but a major principle in terms of how Tia Bates, Danielle Petti, and Masha Kouznetsova work and understand value in sourcing the material and immaterial aspects of their artwork. In the exhibition over and over and over and each artist has cultivated their own approach to the transformation of found materials, a further translation of their embodied experiences. The distortion or alteration of materials occurs through pulping, setting, melting, illuminating, recording, and transmitting with paper, water, cement, beeswax, light, soundwaves, acetate and metals. A concept, a rock, an image or a sound is revisited time and time again, revealing itself bit by bit. Matter is never fixed, but ever changing through multiple iterations of a singular installation, and time is embraced as medium. Over and over and over and over and over and…

over and over and over and | artLAB Gallery

Documentation by Dickson Bou, Gallery Prepartor.

Test Site
Organized by the Centre for Sustainable Curating.
Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4-6PM
CSC GIVEAWAY: October 21 at 11am until October 22 at 5pm
Cohen Commons

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London, Ontario has long been known as a test site, a place where new products are introduced to measure their success across various socioeconomic demographics and markets. This exhibition reimagines that consumption-based label, focusing instead on the Centre for Sustainable Curating's efforts in 'testing' (defined as a critical examination, observation, or evaluation) new possibilities and futures. Bringing together past and ongoing experiments by the CSC—such as those involving light and shadow, visible mending, compostable signage, collaborative ownership, solar archiving, and collecting as redistribution—Test Site asks: What traces and marks are left behind by an exhibition?

Test Site | Cohen Commons Gallery
Documentation by Dickson Bou, Gallery Prepartor.

Department of Visual Arts:
MEET AND GREET!

Thursday, October 10 from 3-4PM
Organized by Cheyne Ferguson, artLAB Gallery Intern
artLAB Gallery

Have you ever wanted to opportunity to get to know faculty and staff better? Then join us for this special event--there will be coffee to sip, nametags to wear, and great conversations to be had between students, faculty and staff. All are welcome, light refreshments will be served.

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Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Hannah West, MFA Candidate
Exhibtion: September 5 – September 26, 2024 
Reception: Thursday, September 5 / 5-7pm 
artLAB Gallery

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Image credit: Hannah West, "Sequins," coloured pencil on wood panel, 8 x 8 inches, 2023

This exhibition is the culmination of a project that has been in development since my time as a student at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) consists of select drawings created during my two years as an MFA candidate.

The drawings explore the beauty of everyday life, seeking to bring attention to moments, objects and spaces that are often overlooked, using coloured pencil, an overlooked fine arts medium. I am inspired by scenes I have discovered in passing, choosing to capture what stands out to me in the moment I encounter it. I emphasize these moments by highlighting elements of lighting, colour and reflection. My work is a way for me to find comfort in isolation and to cope with the inevitable passage of time, as I view the world with a sense of childlike wonder. 

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) - MFA Thesis Exhibition | artLAB Gallery



River Through Your Eye: Campus Community Photography
RiverFest2024
Exhibtion: September 5 – October 1, 2024 
Cohen Commons 

Western Sustainability
Office of Indigenous Initiatives
Indigenous Students’ Association

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River Through Your Eye: Campus Community Photography is an exhibit curated by the campus community through the annual celebration of Riverfest. This collection on photo submissions from 2022 and 2023, showcases the beauty of the Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River/Thames River) captured through different perspectives.

River Through Your Eye returns for another year, with submissions being accepted from September 7 – 27. Those who submit photos will be entered into a Sustainability prize pack draw that includes Riverfest-branded swag. Participants are encouraged to submit their photos via Instagram to @WesternuSustain or email sustainability@uwo.ca.Be sure to use the hashtag #RiverThroughYourEye2024.

Learn more about Riverfest and how you can get involved by visiting the Western Sustainability website here.

River Through Your Eye: Campus Community Photography, RiverFest2024 | Cohen Commons Gallery