November 30, 2024 to January 26, 2025
Conceptualizing Local
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a group exhibition curated by Clayton Windatt
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ARTIST:
Herman Pi'ikea Clark
Reid Dennison
Paul Drysdale
Kelsey Rühl
Julia White
After engaging with the 'Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film' for several years, curator Clayton Windatt now explores relationships in Durham through place and proximity.
‘Conceptualizing Local’ is an exploration of the relationships between individual artists and the various ways that we as audience members relate to artistic ideas. By juxtaposing concepts and aesthetics, this exhibition takes viewers on a journey through five distinct artistic practices, intertwined within a single immersive environment.
Opening Reception
Saturday December 7th, 2 pm
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Cheyanne Sundance helping out at the opening reception for Conceptualizing Local exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery on December 7, 2024
Opening reception for group Exhibition, Conceptualizing Local on December 7, 2024
Artist Reid Dennison installing light sculpture 'The Magic of Silt' for the exhibition
Cheyanne Sundance helping out at the opening reception for Conceptualizing Local exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery on December 7, 2024
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.