Installation Art
The art installations are part of the festivals' transformation of space. This year look on the street, on the walls of buildings and inside buildings for visual and interactive installations.
- Installations
- Reid English
- Miriam Grenville
- Robert Hilts
- Theresa Pankratz
- Portable Gallery Project
- The Synthesis Project
- Aaron Mitchell
- Indoor Installation
- Reid English
- Location T.B.D.
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Biography
Reid English was born in Toronto in the mid Sixties. He completed a degree in Graphic and Commercial Art at George Brown College in the eighties. Besides Painting and Building things, Reid also has a talent for cranking out loud fast noise on his guitar. He put this to use in the Eighties playing in Toronto Punk Rock bands. Travels to the east coast sparked an interest in outsider art. Reid is the father of two boys and both lives and works in the Toronto West End community known as the Junction.
Artist Statement
My work will be constructed of cast-off objects, fragments, bits and pieces I have picked up in my travels and throughout our neighbourhood – The Junction. Useless scraps, these are what excite me! The dirt and distress of these items that someone else has dismissed as garbage are a welcomed resource for my assemblages. The beauty in the distress and tattered nature of objects that have served in their time and worn out their purpose. I see an angel rising up.
- Miriam Grenville
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Biography
Miriam Grenville is a graduate of OCAD in Textile Design She has created designs for walls and bedding that have been printed using large format digital technology. She has also made a substantial number of works as a response to her position as a mother. Drawing inspiration from local and foreign environments, she adds these discoveries to her experience as a Canadian artist and maker. Her work is a decorative response to making mistakes and discoveries: sometimes with walls, sometimes with toy guns, sometimes with money. Miriam Grenville lives and works in the west end of Toronto.
Artist Statement
“Your artwork is really beautiful, honey, but you really need to make some money...” We propose to make some money: a $50, a tenner, and if you are really in a hurry, a loonie! Using craft, design, and art skills, make crafty amounts of money at the Junction Arts Festival. How long will it take? Like everything in life, it depends on how much you want to make...the higher the denomination, the more intricate the process, the greater the energy & creative out put, just like making beautiful artwork...hey, it is beautiful artwork!!
- Robert Hilts
- Location T.B.D.
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Biography
Artist Statement
- Theresa Pankratz
- Location T.B.D.
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Biography
Theresa Pankratz Background Bachelor of Interior Design - University of Manitoba Diploma of Furniture Design - School of Craft and Design, Sheridan College, Ontario Glass and Sculpture studies - Sheridan College Designer and implementation of Art and Craft Studios, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
Artist Statement
The piece I am proposing consist of two parts. Both pieces will be made of large branches up to 7 ft tall. One piece will have branches in a grid of approximately 7ft. with an opening to allow the view to enter and interact with the piece. The second piece will also feature a grid of branches & will be smaller, but they will in a positive house shape. The pieces are a house in the forest and a forest in the house. The pieces cause the viewer to reflect on our relationship with our environment, especially our built environment.
- Portable Gallery Project
- Location T.B.D.
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Biography
PGP is a curatorial/artist project by collaborators Heather Phillips and Ashley Grenville. They are both currently living and working in Toronto, spending their free time walking around town and sharing the PGP with the city. Heather Phillips is an artist/curator based out of Toronto Ontario. In her art practice, she investigates the use of public and private 'art' spaces and how they can be interpreted. She has a BFA from York University in studio art with a focus in sculpture and curatorial studies. Ashley Grenville is currently completing her MA at York University specializing in museums in the miniature.
Artist Statement
The PGP (Portable Gallery Project) Would function as a listed gallery in the festival. We would be showcasing a new upcoming artist(TBA) in the PGP and would 'travel' around the Junction, stopping and setting up the gallery in empty spaces between booths for festival goers to take a look. *I am also currently working on the completion of a second gallery for the PGP family, that if finished in time would act as another gallery venue to move throughout the festival in the same fashion.
- The Synthesis Project
- 2968 Dundas St. W.
- Sept 9 to 11 - 7pm to 8pm
Sept 12 - 8pm 
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Biography
Michael Reinhart is an actor, playwright, director and producer based in Toronto, Canada. Michael has written three plays Leaving Song, Fractions and The Next Best Thing all of which have been produced in Toronto. Leaving Song was the runner-up for the 2005 Herman Voaden Playwriting Award. He is also the founding member of not in london Productions. Current projects include Experiment 2 a multimedia performance piece at the HIVE festival in Toronto, continued development on THE FORT series of short stories. Michael is a proud graduate of Ryerson Theatre School.
Michael Palumbo is a musician and poet in Toronto. He is involved with three Toronto-based bands, performing backup vocals with The Hamilton Trading Co. and lead guitar in Apple Pi, and The Shadowboxers. He currently is also working on his third poetry volume. A former promoter and artist manager, Michael has promoted roughly 150 concerts, and was manager to fingerstyle guitarist Maneli Jamal.
Ryan O’Shaughnessy is a Fort Erie raised photographer and one of the founding members of not in london Productions. Ryan specializes in concert photography and his work has been featured in such online publications as Tangible Sounds and Audioblood. He has shot such acts as REM, Nine Inch Nails and The Cure, and in spring of 2008 launched www.ryanophoto.com, a Web site dedicated to his photography. He is also the founder of Rear Window Radio, a weekly podcast showcasing independent talent.
Artist Statement
The Synthesis Project was developed as a means to examine the concept of “a place in time”, from a multi-disciplinary approach. Each place (or locale) constitutes a broad subject from which participating artists create fragments of material in their specific discipline, all creative material is a result of first hand experience with “the place” and through in-depth research. The array of developed work is then combined to create a collective presentation that captures the spirit of the place and strives to generate synthesis between forms within a spontaneous performance environment. This synthesis is ultimately meant to present a finite creation that is as fragile, individual and alive as the place in time that is the artist’s subject.
- Aaron Mitchell
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Biography
Aaron Mitchell (b.1975, Toronto, ON) is an artist with over 12 years of professional experience in multi-disciplinary art practice, arts education, research and administration. Mitchell completed four years of study majoring in fine art at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) and went on to a graduate degree at the Academy of Art Iceland. From 2001 to 2008 Aaron lived and worked as a professional Artist in Europe (Iceland) and become the founder and director of the Akureyri Centre of Contemporary Art. Aaron Mitchell has taught and lectured as a full time faculty member for the Akureyri College of Art and Design as well as served as an instructor at the Academy of Art Iceland. Currently, Aaron Mitchell art works are included in many respected galleries, museums and private art collections worldwide – some of these include Canada’s permanent art collection (now housed in Canadian Embassy to Iceland-Reykjavik) the Arts Council International of Belgium (ACIB gallery), Akureyri Museum of Art Iceland, Klink og Bank Contemporary Art Gallery-Reykjavik, the Blackbox Contemporary Art Space and various municipal arts and culture collections in Europe and North America.
Artist Statement
Aaron Mitchell’s newest collection/installation offers viewers objects of hope in times of trouble. Virgula divina - is a form of divining rod created from the Y shape or a forked branch from a water seeking tree, these tools are used in the discovery of underground mines, water springs and wealth. Mitchell’s current installation (for the 2009 Junction Arts Festival) looks to re-visit the methods our ancestor’s once used to find hope - possibilities and fortune during the hardest of times.
Contact e-mail: aaronmitchell@rogers.com