3 Significant Events / My first public exhibition at the St. Thomas Elgin Public Art Centre, 2023, A podcast interview called “Andres Garzon in Conversation with Kim Wilkie, 2023, and the closing of the Garage Gallery Benmiller, 2022.
The St. Thomas Elgin Public Art Centre Exhibition.
The exhibition ran from January 14 to February 18th, 2023 and it was called “Found.”
Here is a video of the “Found” exhibition. It is made from found materials from thrift stores, my home property, my studio and found imagined objects or images in my mixed media paintings. The artworks are a kind of invocation through the materials used, and so by using stuffed animals in the sculptures they become child like but can also be signs or symbols of a spiritual nature. Even the found images in the mixed media paintings seem like memories or dreams, or possibly things to come. I hope all the artworks were enjoyed by everyone young at heart.
Below is a Gallery of stills of exhibit if you don’t have time to watch the 17 minute video.
The Podcast Interview is a post from November 2023. It is also on Spotify, and on Centred.ca an on line magazine through Centred.ca called “Andres Garzon in Conversation with Kim Wilkie”
Here, also, is a Review of the 2019 season exhibition “Unsettling Nature” at Garage Gallery Benmiller by Madeline Lennon through centred.ca
As of 2022 we have closed the Garage Gallery Benmiller Seasonal Gallery
I am writing here to let everyone know that my husband John and I have decided to close the Garage Gallery Benmiller this year, 2022. We found that we were just a bit out of the way for people to come to see the exhibits here in Benmiller, Ontario. I will continue to work on my art and to exhibit my art in different galleries from here forward. Thank you, to all the artists who exhibited with me here in Benmiller and to those who chose to come to our small gallery to see new contemporary art that we chose to share.
Below are some short videos of each gallery exhibit we had.
I apologize that I did not take a video for the short exhibit in 2017 where Mona Istrati-mulhern, Ruth Maclean, and Linda Wiebe exhibited their work with me in 2017.
2018 Season A 2018 Season B 2019 Season A 2019 Season B 2019 Season C