Studio Available 📣 💥
This large studio is 7 x 11 feet, surrounded by expansive wall space and tall ceilings with both natural and bright LED overhead lighting. The most private of all the spaces, this studio is situated right next to our large washroom with the utility sink for easy clean-up.
All members have access to our amenities: 24/7 fob access, unlimited wifi, shared work tables and tools, kitchenette, communal areas, and more.
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Matthew Donaldson is a self-taught oil painter with a primary focus on figurative work and landscapes. Creating art since he was a child, Matthew has been studying oil painting for the past twenty years. His work evokes a natural tension exploring themes of alienation and isolation. Matthew’s work has been collected by patrons in Toronto, Ottawa, and London Eng. He has shown work in Guelph, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, and now focuses on impressionistic portraits and dark, atmospheric landscapes. Self-taught, he is inspired by artists including Carravagio, J.M.W Turner, and John Singer Sargent. He currently resides in Guelph.
View Matthew's show SOMA until May 19th! ⭐️✨⚡️
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SOMA | Matthew Donaldson
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"I started drawing when I was very young, bedazzled by the world of cartoons and superheroes and comic strips. I drew a lot of inspiration from them, drawing so many dinosaurs and Daffy Ducks and Batman. As I grew into a more mature artistic practice (which I know now was a mistake and have resolved to claw back my immaturity.) I had to completely revise my approach to the human figure. If you did not know, comic book superheroes are not the best place to learn accurate human anatomy. An overlooked place to learn about composition and colour and visual storytelling, but not realistic anatomy. Inspired by the old masters and other big names in the arts, I pushed my work to be more realistic, more challenging. I felt that the key to mastering the figure was all in the human hand. Pursuing the perfect hand painting, I ended up with dozens of paintings of hands and now struggle with justifying their existence as something other than personal Mount Everests.
When you paint and create images almost exclusively of a thing, you inevitably end up meditating on that one thing. So, I thought about the human hand a lot. Human beings have achieved so much in a short time on the Earth; Neanderthals building bonfires, to Henry Ford building cars, to Technological Oligarchs building AI superprograms. Getting older, I have become more and more selective of what technology I allow into my life- not full Luddite yet, but enough has happened in my lifetime to make me handle new technological advances with sharp suspicion and wearing personal protective equipment. It is important to cultivate physical real objects, this body of work evolved to become something of a meditation on reconnecting with nature, gardening, foraging and cultivation. For the record, I do none of this..."
Read more through the link in our bio 💻
View the show until May 19th ⭐️⚡️🏃 #artistsoninstagram #artwork #contemporarypainting #soloexhibition #guelphartist
Olivia de Fleuriot Perry is a multidisciplinary artist based on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit Frist Nation, as well as the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee peoples. She earned her MFA from Emily Carr University in 2019, supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. In 2026, she will be a part of a group show, Annual Juried Exhibition 2026, at Latcham Art Centre, Stouffville, ON; be published in Syphon, Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre, Kingston, ON; as well as participate in the Harvest Moon Artist Residency in Clearwater, Manitoba, and the Banff Artist in Residence program in Banff, Alberta. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the 2023 Fraser Valley Biennial in B.C. and Split Milk Gallery in Edinburgh.
de Fleuriot Perry's recent practice investigates the connection with her local plant community through repetition and attentive care. She physically engages in the process, using written imagery, performative image creation, sculptural installations, drawing, and painting to navigate her evolving relationship with place. By visiting specific places close to her home across the seasons, de Fleuriot Perry seeks catharsis through movement: repeated collecting and making.
View "Milkweed, Goldenrod, and Asters Along a Salmon River" for another week, until May 5th ⭐️
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✨ NEW SHOW ✨
Milkweed, Goldenrod, and Asters Along a Salmon River
Olivia de Fleuriot Perry | @oliviadefleuriot
"I return to the place where the Salmon spawn. My children bring me offerings of flowers, leaves, and stones as we walk along the rushing water. I hold up a branch of Asters dappled with light from the dancing trees above. Aaron and I stop under a bridge listening and watching, paying attention. We take a moment to feel the water flowing over our hands. We start to return back home. The kids run ahead with their dad, while I slowly follow behind. As I turn a corner, I am transported to a tapestry of vibrant flowers, bees, wasps, birds and spiders along the Salmon run. A single Milkweed plant stands amongst the Goldenrod, Asters, Wild Carrot, Chicory, Clover and Daisies. I kneel down to watch the bees while a Goldenrod Crab Spider watches me from inside a Wild Carrot flower. A flood of gratitude washes over me as I feel the sun's warmth on my back. Gratitude to witness the scene before me as the bugs dance and the spider patiently waits for its meal. Gratitude for this earth; for life and death; for joy, and sorrow; for abundance and hardship; to live and to be loved as the Salmon return to birch and die for another year. The Milkweed plant quietly whispers to me, with one pod spilling its seeds and the other, green with seeds enclosed, filled with hope for the future.
My research centers on plants inhabiting the Treaty Lands and Territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee peoples. Their stories and gifts inspire my art practice."
View Olivia's work from April 21 to May 5, 2026 💫 #ceramics #artwork #artistsoninstagram #contemporarypainting #contemporarypainter
Kaeli Macdonald is a Toronto-based*, interdisciplinary artist. She holds a BFA from OCAD University, where she completed a major in Sculpture/Installation. Often involving multiples, repetition in her work is both rumination and meditation on everyday interactions with environment, self and other. Macdonald’s work has incorporated elements of performance, video, photography, painting, and found objects. Most recently focusing on clay to explore identity, materiality and connection. Her practice is both conceptual and experiential. She has exhibited at Red Head Gallery, The Art Gallery of Mississauga, Propeller Art Gallery and Gerrard Art Space among others.
In addition to her work as an artist, Kaeli Macdonald is a social worker/psychotherapist, and a mother/stepmother to four children. This layering of identities and roles informs her art practice, frequently addressing concerns with socially constructed narratives around woman, mother and mental health.
*Located on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat and other Anishinaabeg peoples.
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View the show until April 21st 💫⭐️💛
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✨ NEW SHOW ✨
the yellow wallpaper | kaeli macdonald
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"In the yellow wallpaper, I seek to remind viewers of sweet and homey things: cookies, wallpaper, flowers. And at the same time refer to something a bit more disquieting - the cookies look slightly burnt and too plentiful to be quite right. If this is wallpaper, it’s too heavy, the pattern uneven and discoloured. Through the use of repetition in this piece, I aim to make visible the felt sense of rumination and anxiety; to make tactile the ongoing and ever-present constraints felt while tirelessly pursuing the image of perfection in motherhood, the relentless pressure to present a mask of happiness when what is being felt is something quite different. I invite the viewer into this experience with me, into a space that presents a dialectic, an image and a narrative that is never just one thing."
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Exhibiting until April 21, 2026 💛 #downtownguelph #artwork #artistsoninstagram #ceramics #soloexhibition
HOOP-LA is back again ⭐️✨💥
This time, with the incredible poster artwork created by Justin LaGuff ⚡️
Mark your calendars because registration will be open TUES APRIL 7 at 12PM. Limited spots are available, and they always fill up quick! Last year, we sold out of spots in a couple of hours, and we’ve had a waitlist for all previous shows. So….. I would definitely urge you to set an alarm and sign up quick if you’d like to participate! Panel pick up windows will begin later in the month (late April, early May).
The exhibition will run throughout the entire month of June, which is a bright and thriving time for Guelph’s arts sector in the downtown area.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? 🌸
Hoop-la is our most popular community art event! Artist’s create an original work on an 8” round birch panel and are exhibited throughout the month of June in our 14ft window-front gallery wall. Artists pay a registration fee of $40 + taxes to participate, but keep 100% of the sale (if sold). What are we doing to ensure the event runs smoothly? We provide artists with the graphics for promotional material, photography/documentation of the work, installation and de-installation of the show, on-going marketing + posting, after-sale arrangement for buyer pick-up and final packaging of the work!
Have any questions? Send us a message and don’t forget to mark your calendars! 🎉
Registration will be linked in our bio on April 7, 2026 💻
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Lakyn Hann is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist who works in multiple mediums, and they are currently studying at the UoG Studio Art Program. Their current focus is on queer and trans activism and how they can use that as a lens to depict and understand different theoretical ideas. As a queer and trans individual, their work is very personal, but they are also interested in how queer and trans bodies are impacted as a collective. Lakyn also heavily relies on memory mapping — how memories and trauma can impact the body in the form of chronic pain and autoimmune disorders, as well as the process of remembering fragments of time through archival processes. Their work is deeply rooted in process and the systems they give themselves to complete a piece.
View "Bio-Power" until April 7th! 👀⭐️⚡️
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✨ NEW SHOW ✨
Bio-Power | Lakyn Hann
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"As a queer and non-binary individual, my body often becomes a topic of discussion. My expressions of masculinity and femininity are frequently questioned and scrutinized. In this series, "Bio-Power," I engage with Michel Foucault's theory by examining how various perspectives—those focused on biological sex, legislation and policing, and religious interpretations of gender and reproduction—attempt to discipline and define my identity.
In the painting “Anatomo Pt. 1,” I collage together bodies and genders, using precise lines to emphasize the clarity and definition often demanded by those who target queer and trans individuals, seeking clear boundaries in gender. In “Anatomo Pt. 2,” I replicate the figure from Pt. 1, but this time I paint from a distance using a brush attached to a stick. This physical distancing abstracts the figure, placing me in the position of those who make decisions about queer and trans bodies. Through this process, the original figure—precise and clean—becomes messy and monstrous. Queer and trans individuals are often portrayed as 'others' through body-controlling policies that demonize our existence.
Finally, in “Sacrifice to Divine Will,” the third part of this series, I explore themes of religion, reproductive rights, and sexuality to further understand the criticisms I am presenting. Painted entirely on a duvet cover, I encourage the viewer to examine and enter a private space—the bedroom. Central to this piece is a two-headed lamb, which transforms a Christian symbol into the “dark omen” that trans children are often treated as. As someone who grew up queer in a religious family, this was frequently a point of discussion: Will my child ever be able to procreate? Will their transition affect a family unit?
Through collage, painting, textile, and process work I am using multidisciplinary methods to encompass the cruel reality of control and monsterization queer and trans individuals experience in many intersections of life and identity."
View Lakyn's exhibition until April 7th, 2026 🏃⚡️⭐️ #downtownguelph #artwork #artistsoninstagram #contemporarypainting #guelphartist
About the artist behind our current show, Past, Present, Future ⚡️
Ella Chase is an amateur mixed media artist who creates collages made largely out of found objects and pieces from their life. Their art is intuitive and made without plans concerning what the final piece will or should be. As a form of abstract expressionism, their art evokes strong emotions and clearly displays the process of creation. Chase’s work is animated by the lived experience of being queer, autistic, and mixed race, and unconsciously expresses confusion, discontent, and hope as a way to make sense of our world.
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