McIntosh Gallery would like to announce a change in staffing. Kay Nadalin, who has been with the McIntosh Gallery for the past year, will be moving on from her position as Communications & Outreach Coordinator. Kay has been a pleasure to work with and has done wonderful things for the gallery.
Taking over as Communications & Outreach Coordinator is Lucas Cabral. Lucas is in his third year of studies working toward a BFA Honours Specialization in Studio Art and a BA in English at Western University. Having first volunteered with McIntosh Gallery as a Gallery Attendant and later working as our Curatorial Assistant, Lucas has been with McIntosh Gallery for some time. We are excited to have him on board and are confident that he will embrace the job with the enthusiasm that we know him to have.
We would like to thank Kay for all of her hard work while at McIntosh Gallery. Her positivity and dedication will truly be missed. We wish Kay all the best with her future endeavours and are certain that she will bring success wherever she goes.
For all future concerns related to communications and outreach at McIntosh Gallery, please contact Lucas Cabral, Communications & Outreach Coordinator, at lcabral3@uwo.ca or 519-661-3181.
McIntosh Gallery is pleased to announce a call for applications for a new student engagement program at the gallery this year called the McIntosh Gallery Student Projects Committee. In essence, a group of enthusiastic students with an interest in the gallery come together on a regular basis to work on student-led projects and activities related to or in support of McIntosh Gallery — think fundraisers, social media campaigns, exhibition interpretation activities, student-led tours, videos, meet-and-greets, and more! The Student Projects Committee is entirely student-led and is your chance to make your mark at McIntosh Gallery.
To apply to be part of the McIntosh Gallery Student Projects Committee, please answer a few short questions found on the application form: Student Projects Committee application form.
Completed application responses will be accepted via email to mcintoshgallery@gmail.com up until 9 A.M. on Tuesday October 14, 2014. Depending on the number of applicants, interviews may be required.
For more information about the Student Projects Committee or the application process, please contact Harry or Ella at mcintoshgallery@gmail.com.
There is lots to enjoy this weekend as our city welcomes Doors Open London and London Culture Days. On Saturday September 27 and Sunday September 28, Londoners and visitors are invited to experience, explore, and have fun with over 100 arts and heritage events throughout the city. Here's wishing a great event to the organizers, London Arts Council & London Heritage Council, as well as all of our friends who are participating. It is going to be a great celebration of culture!
As usual, McIntosh Gallery is open from 12 P.M. to 4 P.M. on Saturday, so feel free to pop in if you pass by Western campus during your travels throughout the city. A free guided tour of our exhibitions, Rob Nelson: Photographs 1977 to 2014 and Janet Werner: Another perfect day, led by our Director/Chief Curator James Patten starts at 1 P.M. on Saturday.
For more information about Doors Open London and London Culture Days, please visit www.londonculture.ca.
For more information about our guided exhibition tour on Saturday September 27, please contact Kay Nadalin, Communications & Outreach Coordinator, at knadali@uwo.ca or 519-661-3181.
McIntosh Gallery’s doors have served two functions over the years: to welcome visitors into the gallery to learn about visual culture and to act as the backdrop for countless photographs. Despite their iconic appearance, the McIntosh Gallery red doors have not always been part of the gallery’s facade. Here is the story of how they came to be.
For decades, exterior doors across Western’s campus were all finished in the same shade of brown. Shortly after his arrival in 1969, new curator Maurice Stubbs wanted to differentiate the gallery’s appearance from the rest of the buildings on campus by changing the doors to a distinctive colour. After many attempts via traditional approval channels, Stubbs decided to take matters into his own hands. One weekend, he painted the doors with what has now become known as McIntosh Red, as they have remained to this day.
Help us pay homage to the red doors by joining the McIntosh Gallery #RedDoors Photobooth on Friday, September 5. Student photographers will be on hand all day to help you preserve a memory in front of our red doors by snapping a pic on your phone and our camera.
For more information, please contact Kay Nadalin, Communications & Outreach Coordinator, at knadali@uwo.ca or 519-661-3181.
Beginning Monday, June 30, McIntosh Gallery will be closed for the Canada Day holiday through until 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, July 2. Please note that McIntosh Gallery is not open on Sundays.
For more information, please contact Kay Nadalin, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, at knadali@uwo.ca.
Thursday, June 26 marks the 72nd anniversary of McIntosh Gallery.
The oldest of all university art galleries in Ontario, McIntosh Gallery was established as a result of three bequests to Western University from the estate of Wilhelmina Morris McIntosh in memory of her husband, J. Gordon McIntosh. The bequests included: her collection of 67 artworks; sufficient funds to build an art gallery on the campus; and a small endowment for building maintenance and the purchase of “pictures”. Western University had previously received several gifts of art, but this single act by Mrs. McIntosh catalyzed the university into a new and ongoing commitment to the visual arts on campus. That the gallery building was to only be the fifth structure on the university grounds solidified this significant attention.
On June 26 of 1942, McIntosh Gallery officially opened its doors with a display of paintings by Canadian war artists from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. To this day, McIntosh Gallery remains dedicated to the presentation and dissemination of advanced practices and research in the fields of art history and contemporary visual art, serving the students, faculty and staff of Western University, and the broader community of London.
To read the full history of McIntosh Gallery, click here.
Acclaimed Canadian sculptor and former McIntosh Gallery artist in residence, Walter Redinger, died on Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Long associated with the London, Ontario arts community, Redinger spent most of his life in West Lorne, a small town sixty kilometers to the south west. Redinger was born in Wallacetown, Ontario in 1940. Like many local artists, he studied at Beal Technical School in London and, later, the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and the Meinsinger School of Art in Detroit.
Best known for large-scale, organically-shaped abstract fibreglass sculptures, Redinger’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the 1960s. Along with Greg Curnoe, Jack Chambers, and fellow West Lorne sculptor Ed Zelenak, Redinger was included in the landmark, nationally-touring exhibition The Heart of London, curated by Pierre Théberge for the National Gallery of Canada in 1968. In 1972 he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale. Exhibits in Toronto (where he was represented by Isaacs Gallery), New York, and Montreal followed. International acclaim led to several outdoor sculpture commissions during the 1970s in cities such as Ottawa, Montreal, and Winnipeg.
Back in London, Redinger was selected in 1974 to do a major outdoor piece for the newly build Provincial Courthouse where it remains today. He was appointed artist in residence at McIntosh Gallery from 1976 to 1977, where seven of his works are part of the permanent collection including Adhesion Wall, 1968. This massive, chocolate-brown wall-dependent work, 24 feet in length, is installed in Weldon Library. His work is also included in the collections of The National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Museum London.
In 1994, Museum London organized Beyond Survival, a solo exhibition curated by James Patten of Redinger’s recent work, which incorporated animal skulls in skeletal fibreglass constructions. In the catalogue, author Carol Farber included a quote from the artist that was inscribed on his studio wall: “I have to turn off my doubts and fears and... gamble that there is something out there and something to say, that the work stands and is something not opaque, but rather as if transparent, that is what I think is beyond survival."
A celebration of life will occur on Saturday, July 19 at the Denning Funeral Home in West Lorne. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations may be made to The Bobier Villa in Dutton, or The Parkinsons or Alzheimer's Societies.
James Kirkpatrick discusses his exhibition Secret Base the Lake on display at McIntosh Gallery until June 7. Video edited by Eric Simard of EGS Productions.
London has lost a great friend and champion of the visual arts with the passing of Dr. Ross Woodman on Thursday, March 20, 2014.
Ross was born in Port William, Kings County, Nova Scotia, in 1922. After serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, he received his MA from United College (now University of Winnipeg) and PhD from the University of Toronto. For nearly forty years Ross was a professor of English at Western University, where he taught Romantic literature until his retirement in 1989. In 1993 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America.
An avid collector of contemporary Canadian and international art, Ross also enthusiastically encouraged numerous artists through his engaging articles and catalogue essays. He was one of the founders of the legendary 20/20 Gallery in London, Ontario. At Western, he contributed to the creation of the Alumni Art Collection in the late 1960s including Colonne Sans Fin by Jean McEwen (pictured). This collection of outstanding Canadian and international art will be the subject of a major exhibition at McIntosh Gallery in September 2015.
The McIntosh Gallery Curatorial Studies Centre will soon publish Re-imagining Regionalism, a collection of essays dedicated to Ross’s remarkable influence on the cultural development of London since the 1960s. It includes an extensive interview with Ross conducted by Department of Visual Arts’ professor, Sky Glabush, and the director of Western’s School of Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities, Dr. Joel Faflak.
We extend our sympathy to Ross’ wife, Marion Woodman, the internationally acclaimed Jungian analyst and Western alumna, and the Woodman family, and the many friends and colleagues whose lives he touched so profoundly with his keen intellect, humanism and passion for life.
A video conversation between Scott Conarroe and Kay Nadalin, McIntosh Gallery's Communications and Outreach Coordinator. Edited by Eric Simard of EGS Productions.
