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Canadian Heritage Office, Toronto.

The Winter "Lament" paintings, Canadian Heritage Office Gallery, Toronto.

Painting in the Board Room of Canadian Heritage Office, Toronto.

China Town Walking, in the Board Room of Canadian Heritage Office, Toronto.
 

"Lament"

Gareth Bate's The "Lament" Winter Paintings at the Canadian Heritage Office Gallery, Toronto.

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The Winter "Lament" Paintings
Solo Exhibition
Gareth Bate

Canadian Heritage Office Gallery, Toronto
Ontario Regional Office
150 John St, Ste. 400
Toronto, ON M5V 3T6

Dates: Dec. 08 - Jan. 2009

Curator: Kendra Sartorelli
Facilitator: Chantale Pherand, Art in the Workplace Program.

 

"Lament"
Sometimes the saddest songs are the most inspiring. Rather than sink into guilt and despair at the state of the world, I try to find beauty in the tragic. As an artist I choose to believe that making art will somehow have an impact. It will make people feel, think and consider. It will motivate and affirm a sense of hope.

The “Lament” painting series is a song of sorrow and loss, an existential contemplation on our place within nature and our effect on the world. It evolved out of a desire to paint the places that are special to me like Grenadier Pond in Toronto’s High Park, and Kings County in Prince Edward Island. However, the paintings became something different. The result was often haunted and lonely. For me, a strange melancholy permeated each painting, a human presence felt but never seen. Despite the darkness, winding pathways continually emerged in a completely unconscious way.

If we value our environment so intensely will we make difficult choices of self-control? Or will we instead cut the tops off mountains while “waiting for the miracle”? I value this world because I believe this is all there will ever be.

 

"Lamentation"

Parfois, les chansons les plus tristes sont celles qui nous inspirent le plus. J’essaie de trouver la beauté dans ce qui est tragique, au lieu de me morfondre dans la culpabilité et de sombrer dans le désespoir. En tant qu’artiste, je choisis de croire que faire de l’art aura une espèce d’incidence, que cela fera ressentir des émotions, penser et réfléchir, que cela mettra les choses en mouvement et exprimera un sentiment d’espoir.

Lamentation est une chanson qui a en son cœur la peine et le deuil, une contemplation existentielle de notre place au sein de la nature et de l’effet que nous avons sur le monde. Cette œuvre est née du désir de peindre les endroits qui me sont chers comme l’étang Grenadier, à High Park à Toronto et le Kings County, à l’Île du Prince-Édouard. Les tableaux sont devenus tout à fait différents; la plupart donnant l’impression d’être hantés et isolés. Selon moi, chacun de ces tableaux est empreint d’une mélancolie singulière, d’une présence humaine que l’on devine, mais que l’on ne voit jamais. Malgré cette obscurité, des chemins sinueux ont tenu à émerger d’une façon résolument inconsciente.

Si nous accordons autant de valeur à notre environnement, ferons-nous les choix difficiles nécessitant un contrôle de soi? Ou bien décimerons-nous plutôt les sommets enneigés les uns après les autres, attendant passivement qu’un « miracle » se produise? J’accorde beaucoup d’importance à ce monde, car je suis de l’avis qu’il est le seul qui n’existera jamais.

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Cape Flora
Solo Show

Loop Gallery, Toronto

 

Cosmos and Anarchy: Part 2
Solo Show

Loop Gallery, Toronto

  The Red and the Black:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at The Gallery at The Gallery at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville.
  Solo Shows & Installations:
World of Threads Festival

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Past

           
             
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Cosmos and Anarchy
Solo Show

Loop Gallery, Toronto

 

Indicator
Toronto Nuit Blanche

Gareth Bate Art Projects
401 Richmond St. West.

 

Something Still
Group Show

Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto.

 

Responsive Space II
Group Show

Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto.

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Gareth Bate's 2012 Review: Yearly Update

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

  Memento Mori:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, Oakville.
  De rerum natura:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville.
  Myth Making:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville.
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Variegated Threads:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville.

 

Outside Environmental Installations:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville.

 

Protrusion:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto.

 

Fibre Collage:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville.

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"Where the Wild Things Aren't":
Group Show

Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa

  Come Up To My Room: "Jewel Net of Indra" Installation

Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
  "Floating World"
Solo Exhibition

Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library, Montreal.
  "10 Up and Coming Canadian Fibre
Artists to Watch"

Article Published in
Fibre Focus Magazine
             
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Gareth Bate's 2011 Review: Yearly Update

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

 

FROLIC: 401 Richmond Artists Open Studio

Gareth Bate Art Projects, 401 Richmond, St. W., Toronto

  "Weather"
Juried Exhibition

Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1, Toronto
 

"Floating World"
Solo Exhibition

Loop Gallery, Toronto

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Gareth Bate's 2010 Review: Yearly Update

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

  "Scapes" Landscape
Group Exhibition

Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto
  "Deep Field"
Solo Exhibition

Gareth Bate Art Projects
Studio S-17, 401 Richmond St. W. Toronto
 

Gareth Bate Art Projects Official Launch

Gareth Bate Art Projects
Studio S-17, 401 Richmond St. W. Toronto

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401 Richmond Artists Open Studio

401 Richmond St. West, Toronto. Organized by Gareth Bate.
 

"Where They Are Now: OCADU Alumni Exhibition"

Art Square Gallery, Toronto

 

"Moments" Solo Painting Exhibition

Gareth Bate Art Projects, Toronto

  "Arts For Social & Environmental Justice Symposium"

Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto.
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For The Infinite, Book Cover.

Ryerson Poetry Chapbook, Toronto

 

Gareth Bate's 2009 Review: Yearly Update

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

  Remounted: "Corps Intérieur" Set Design Installation

David Pressault Danse at the Monument National Theatre, Montreal.
  "Threads That Bind" in World of Threads Festival

The Gallery at Sheridan Instistute, Oakville.
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"Common Thread International Exhibition" at World of Threads Festival

B42 Gallery, Oakville.

 

"The Winter LamentPaintings," Solo Exhibition

Canadian Heritage Office Gallery, Toronto

 

"BeeCause," Fundraising Auction for the Canadian Bee Research Fund

The Arts Project London,London.

 

"Between Reality & Fantasy"

Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto

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"Corps Intérieur"
Set Design Installation

David Pressault Danse at the Monument National Theatre, Montreal.

 

Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant

For Corps Intérieur Set Design Installation

 

"Hard Twist: 3rd Annual Juried Textile Art Exhibition"

The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.

 

"Bigger, Bigger and More Desperate"

Deleon White Gallery, Toronto

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"Art 401: A group exhibition of 401 Richmond Artists"

The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.

  "Penance & Devotion"
Solo Exhibition

Gallerie Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto.
 

"Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition": Lament Paintings

Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto

 

"Lament": 401 Richmond Career Launcher Prize Solo Exhibition

Studio 260, 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto

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"Penance Performance"

Queen Street West, Toronto

 

"Plastic Paintings" Solo Exhibition.

Public Health Canada Office, Toronto

 

"Residual Landscapes" Photography Exhibition

Arcadia Gallery, Toronto

 

"Nuit Blanche: Ann Hamilton's Listening Choir," Performance

Varius Locations, Toronto

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"Central Tech Alumni Show"

The Library Gallery, Central Technical School, Toronto

 

"Nuit Blanche: In Memory of Brian Kipping"

Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto

 

Gareth Bate wins 2007
401 Richmond Career-Launcher Prize

Ontario College of Art & Design & Margaret Zeidler.

   
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