Dream Islands
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Nanaimo Art Gallery 150 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R 5G6
Lari Robson, "stoneware jug with tenmoku glaze," circa 1980's
from the Diane Carr Collection at Nanaimo Art Gallery
Dream Islands: Derya Akay, Vanessa Brown, Maggie Groat, Yuki Kimura, Anne Low, Sonnet L’Abbé, Lari Robson
Curated by Jesse Birch and Emma Metcalfe Hurst
Opening July 20, 2017
Dream Islands is a group exhibition that navigates islands of the imagination through intersections between art and craft practices. The exhibition takes the practice of Saltspring Island potter Lari Robson as a central inspiration for the production of new contemporary artworks by Derya Akay, Vanessa Brown, Maggie Groat, Yuki Kimura, and Anne Low, with writing by Sonnet L’Abbé.