Untitled Portals, Variations: Artist Talk & Collage Night (+snacks!)

Join us on October 9 at ROONEY'S in Hamilton, for an evening with Laura Kay Keeling, where she will share a bit about her artistic practice, the Untitled Portals, Variations project and will take you through all of the different elements that went into creating one of the collage pieces that are up at ROONEY'S.

There will be an opportunity to create your own collage, plus, there will be snacks!

Please get in touch via email (aGVsbG8gfCBsYXVyYWtheWtlZWxpbmcgISBjb20=) by October 2 with accessibility requests and any food sensitivities/requests. Thank you!

More details on the exhibition:

How can we maintain and evolve connections to the natural world in an increasingly isolating and technology-dependent society?

Untitled Portals Variations presents a series of collages an installation piece and a virtual space by Laura Kay Keeling initially as part of CAFKA.25 Field Guide to the Understory. Through a process-centered approach the artist experimented with and merged analog and digital processes to expand on an earlier series Untitled Portals.

These pieces incorporate natural elements that have been photographed both digitally and on 35mm film scanned using a flatbed scanner and a 3D scanner digitally manipulated and then brought into physical form. Continuing a dialogue between the natural and digital world the work explores connections to where we find ourselves the incredible and important ecosystems that surround us and the joys that can come from everyday moments of being in and engaging with our surroundings through reciprocal care and respect. 

Thank you to the City of Hamilton's City Enrichment Fund for supporting this project and its Hamilton launch.

I would like to acknowledge and thank the Ontario Arts Council and Government of Ontario for supporting this project through the Deaf and Disability Materials for Visual Artists and Projects Grants. This exhibition was made possible through the Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant.