Gareth Bate

For Immediate Release

"Lament" installation featuring Marsh Triptych. 401 Career Launcher Prize.

"Lament" North Lake, acrylic on wood.

Penance Performance.

"Lament" solo exhibition. Gareth Bate is the winner of the 2007 401 Richmond Career-Launcher Prize a 500 square foot studio given to one Ontario College of Art & Design graduate for one year.

Canadian landscape painting confronts 21st century climate change in exhibition by award winning OCAD graduate.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 24, 2008, 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Location: Studio 260 (Second Floor) at 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto
Dates: May 24 - June 21st.
Days: Wed- Sat,
Times: 12:00pm - 6:00pm

Gareth celebrates his year at Toronto's 401 Richmond St. West with the exhibition "Lament" at Gallery 260 (second floor). Opening May 24th, 2pm – 6pm, and running from May 24- June 21, Wed-Sat. 12pm- 6pm.

"Lament"

The painting series "Lament" is a reinvigoration of Canadian landscape painting in the face of 21st century climate change and environmental destruction. It is a song of sorrow and loss, an existential contemplation on our place within nature and our effect on the world.

Landscape painting is fundamental to Canadian identity. Out of Gareth's desire to paint the beauty he sees in nature came something quite dark, haunted and lonely. A strange melancholy permeates each painting, of human presence felt but never seen. If we value our environment so intensely, are we willing to make the sacrifices necessary to preserve the biosphere? Or will we instead cut the tops off mountains while "waiting for the miracle"? Sometimes the saddest songs are the most inspiring. Gareth's hope is not to sink into guilt and despair at the state of the world, but rather to find beauty in the tragic. As an artist he chooses to believe that making art will have an impact. It will make people feel, think and consider while affirming a sense of hope.

Penance Performance Film

The act of penance is self-inflicted humiliation in the face of intense guilt. In Nov. 2007 Gareth Bate crawled along Toronto's Queen Street West for about 4 blocks on his stomach with a field of grasses on his back. The piece is intended to represent a bizarre act of self-punishment in penance for environmental destruction, like Atlas carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. The public response seemed mixed between considerable curiosity, confusion, indifference and hysterical laughter.

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Upcoming

Apr. 21 - May 6, 2012

July 1 - 31, 2012

Oakville: Nov. 2-18

Toronto: Nov. 9-25

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

Wall Space Gallery,: Ottawa

Artist in Residence and Instructor in Antalya, Turkey

Festival Curator:
World of Threads Festival

Gareth is curating the festival as a whole and 3 exhibitions.

Festival Curator:
World of Threads Festival

Gareth is curating the festival as a whole and 3 exhibitions.

Recent

Past

FROLIC: 401 Richmond Artists Open Studio

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

"Weather"
Juried Exhibition

Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1, Toronto

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Gareth's Yearly Newsletter Update 2010

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

Gareth Bate Art Projects Official Launch

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

"Where They Are Now: OCADU Alumni Exhibition"

Art Square Gallery, Toronto

"Moments" Solo Painting Exhibition

Gareth Bate Art Projects, Toronto

For The Infinite, Book Cover.

Ryerson Poetry Chapbook, Toronto

Gareth's Yearly Newsletter Update 2009

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

"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

"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

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

The Gladstone Hotel, 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

"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.