Ideas of Far North
Life & Environment 1920s - 2020s
August 27th to September 30th
The following artworks from the exhibition are available for purchase.
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LAURA MILLARD
Crossing 1
digital print on hahnemuehle paper with graphite, gouache and chalk
44 x 65.5 in ( 111.8 x 166.4 cm ) ( sight )
Price: $15,000.00
LAURA MILLARD
Motion Lamp 3, Svalbard
refurbished vintage motion lamp, photograph and collage on backlit film
12 x 6 in ( 30.5 x 15.2 cm ) ( diameter )
Price: $1,800.00
Price Realized $1,800.00
Sale date: September 17th 2025
TRISTAN DUKE
Life Boat at Dahlbreen Glacier, Svalbard 02, 2022
ice lens photograph, pigment print
signed and numbered 1/5 in the lower margin
42 x 60 in ( 106.7 x 152.4 cm ) ( sheet )
Price: $26,000.00
TRISTAN DUKE
Tristan Duke, Palisades Fire, California 03, 2025
ice lens photograph, pigment print
signed and numbered 1/5 in the lower margin
42 x 60 in ( 106.7 x 152.4 cm ) ( sheet )
Price: $26,000.00
MAUREEN GRUBEN
Untitled (Sled)
salvaged sled, clay and acrylic paint
33 x 14.5 x 6.25 in ( 83.8 x 36.8 x 15.9 cm ) ( overall )
Price: $14,000.00
PAUL WALDE
Glen Alps Score from "Alaska Variations", 2016
archival digital print on matte paper
Edition: 5 with one AP
15 x 33 in ( 38.1 x 83.8 cm )
Price: $9,000.00
PAUL WALDE
Alaska Variations
3 channel 4k video installation with quadraphonic sound
Edition: 5 with one AP, 4 of 5 available
The edition features: 3 channel and single channel versions in HD and 4K on an SSD drive, a booklet with the complete scores of the music in a custom clamshell box with a photographic artist's print, and installation instructions.
( in ) ( Duration: 68:30 )
Price: $50,000.00
Ideas of Far North
About the Exhibition
Now on view at our gallery until September 30th, Ideas Of Far North was curated by Mark A. Cheetham, exploring how visions of this region have changed over a century.
From early maps to lavishly illustrated travel narratives to oral histories, paintings, and prints, images of the far north from both southern and Indigenous standpoints have been increasingly integral to its understanding. Beginning in the 1920s, some of Ontario’s best-known artists, notably Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, and later, Doris McCarthy, travelled to, pictured, and defined for many southerners the look and nature of the far north, including the Arctic. Their views encapsulate a still-potent identity for many Canadians, but for others, paradigms to revise.
Challenged by Indigenous and settler artists, and shaped by global environmental concerns, familiar paradigms have evolved. Once seen as an existential threat, the region is now recognized as itself vulnerable to climate change. The exhibition invites us to examine the constant interaction between different versions of the far north from our southern perspective in Canada and from other parts of the circumpolar north.
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