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The October exhibition at Toronto's Galerie Glendon Gallery at York Univesrity's Glendon Campus was a big success. It featured the performance video Penance and the large scale landscape painting series "Lament". The show receieved several reviews and mentions in local press including Radio Canada, Xtra, L'Express, Glendon's Newspapers, Things of Desire Online Magazine. Artist Statement, Read Review 1, Review 2
The 401 Richmond Career-Launcher Prize
A studio for a year given to one OCAD University graduate every year. Gareth had a solo exhibition titled "Lament" from May 24th to June 21st, 2008 in Gallery 260 at 401 Richmond St. W Toronto.
The Art Centre at Central Technical School.
Gareth was recently the guest of honour and speaker at the Annual Exhibition. The honour was for founding the Central Tech Art Alumni Network and for accomplishments since graduating from the adult art program. This fall Gareth will be teaching his first painting class as Central Tech's night school.
"Hard Twist" 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition of Textile Art
The performance video Penance and grass installation presented in the context of contemporary textile art.
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West. Toronto (at Gladstone)
Runs: November 8, 2008 to January 4, 2009
Bigger, Bigger and More Desperate Group Exhibition
Gareth Bate created a large wall work in honey of the Colliseum in Rome called "Colony Collapse" and a window work also in honey address the interconectedness of nature and civilization.
Presented by Ecotecture
Curated by Colin Kent & Joanna Sheridan
Also featuring Marcia Huyer & Karen Kraven
Runs: November 7 - December 7, 2008
DeLeon White Gallery, 1139 College St, Toronto.
Canadian Heritage Office, Toronto.
Curated by Kendra Sartorelli
Runs Until the end of January.
Canadian Heritage Office
150 John Street, Suite 400 (At Richmond St.)
Toronto, Ontario
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The performance video Penance has become a hit on YouTube with over 3000 views. In Nov. it was the 12th most discussed video in its category in Canda. It has spread to blogs world wide. Penance is intended to represent a bizarre act of self-punishment and humiliation for the guilt of environmental destruction. It also captures a sense of helplessness in the face of the overwhelming accumulation of problems facing the world.
In perilous times, this installation represents a sense of fragility and interconnectedness. We seem to operate under the strange idea that culture is separate from nature, as opposed to being a manifestation.
The Western honey bee is increasingly under threat from Colony Collapse Disorder where entire bee colonies vanish. When honey drips it naturally forms arches that resemble those of roman architecture. For me this installation is a metaphor for the rise and fall of a civilization.
"Corps Intérieur" (Inner Body)" David Pressault Danse in Montreal
Gareth Bate makes his Montreal and set design debut with an immersive multi-level environment where the audience descends into a chimerical world reminiscent of the pulsing inner body or ancient cave. These inorganic forms were created by trapping fluid acrylic paint between textured layers of plastic wrap. Lighting Design by Lucie Bazzo. View More
Toronto Star, Read Article
Bruce DeMara
Profile: "Gareth Bate: Caught Between a Job and a Cold Place: "Stages: Artists in Real Life: The Up and Comers"
Jan. 2009