Category: The Curator’s View
Friday, July 20, 2018
Painters Eleven and Oshawa
By Joan Murray, Director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (1974-1999) When people fund art galleries, they seek to unite artworks they value under a single roof. Ewart McLaughlin, who provided the funds for the building of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, played a similar role. He…
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Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Linda Jansma: Curator Extraordinaire
by Joan Murray A curator`s task differs from person to person. For some, it means gathering a collection. For others, interpreting what is already there. For all, it means study of a chosen field, say trains if you are the curator of a railway museum. Then you dedicate yourself to preserving the physical legacy, history…
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Leila Timmins joins the RMG as Curator and Manager, Exhibitions and Collections
The Robert McLaughlin is excited to announce that Leila Timmins will be joining the Gallery as Manager and Curator, Exhibitions and Collections. In this new role, she will be replacing Linda Jansma who is retiring after 28 years at the gallery. Previously Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programming at Gallery 44 in Toronto, Leila is…
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Monday, May 14, 2018
Q&A with Sonya Jones, Curator of Collections
Sonya Jones, previously Associate Curator, is now taking on a new role at the Gallery as Curator of Collections. In this new role, Sonya will lead the management, care and exhibition of the RMG’s collections, including the Permanent Collection, Thomas Bouckley Collection, and library and archives. What is it that you love about working with…
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017
In Memory of Lotti Thomas
"I first met Lotti Thomas through her work. I was volunteering at the art gallery at the Scarborough campus of the University of Toronto in the later 1980s and installed one of her amazing lithographs in a group exhibition of alumni. I actually ended up buying the work for my own nascent collection. Lotti would…
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Thursday, September 1, 2016
Curator’s Choice – Robert Bourdeau
While the Canadian photographer Robert Bourdeau now uses digital technologies in shooting his images, he began in analogue – that is, film. In 2015, the RMG received a donation of twelve outstanding photographs by this Kingston-born artist. Like the slow food movement, Bourdeau’s practice is all about the slow and considered shot. Not only does…
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