Iris Group CV
Exhibitions
Women in Art Projects/CWSE Gallery, OISE, 2017
Iris at 20, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 2016
Filmic, The Station Gallery, Whitby, 2015
WhiteOut –Iris and Friends/ Toronto Arts Council Gallery, Nuit Blanche, 2014
Oshawa Space Invaders, Downtown Oshawa, 2013, 2014
Iris@Bola, Downtown Oshawa, 2012
Iris in the Adirondacks, BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake, 2010
The Fiction Project, 2010, art House Brooklyn Art Library, N.Y.
Fluid II, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden, 2009
Edge, The Redhead Gallery, Toronto, 2009
Deviant Detours, The Kunsthaus gallery, San Miguel, Mexico, 2009
Insomnia, The Redhead Gallery, Nuit Blanche, 2008
Fluid, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, 2007
Baghdad Museum, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, 2005
Baghdad Museum, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, 2004
Baghdad Museum, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, 2004
Memory/Nature, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2000
Artists in the Community
The Secret Garden, YWCA, Oshawa, 2014
Beyond Fences, YWCA, Oshawa 2014
International Woman’s day
Central Branch Whitby library, 2011
Artsweek in Peterborough, Millenium Park, 2010
Isabella’s Café, Downtown Oshawa, 2010
BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake New York 2008,2010
Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden 2009
Durham College - UOIT campus Oshawa 2008
Royal Society Conference, U of A, Edmonton 2007
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa 2006
Byng Studio Gallery and Downtown Bowmanville, 2005
Awards
Ontario Arts Council Individual Artist Grants, Material Assistance, 2000-2016
artsVest, Ontario Trillium Funding, 2014
Partnership Grants, City of Oshawa, 2014 and 2012
Catalogues/Publications
Filmic, 2015
White Out, 2014
Nuit Blanche, 2014
Fluid II, 2009
Edge, 2009
Fluid 1, 2007
Museum Baghdad, 2004
Memory /Nature, 2000
Women in . . . Volumes 1 - 3 2005 - 2010
Exhibitions
Women in Art Projects/CWSE Gallery, OISE, 2017
Iris at 20, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 2016
Filmic, The Station Gallery, Whitby, 2015
WhiteOut –Iris and Friends/ Toronto Arts Council Gallery, Nuit Blanche, 2014
Oshawa Space Invaders, Downtown Oshawa, 2013, 2014
Iris@Bola, Downtown Oshawa, 2012
Iris in the Adirondacks, BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake, 2010
The Fiction Project, 2010, art House Brooklyn Art Library, N.Y.
Fluid II, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden, 2009
Edge, The Redhead Gallery, Toronto, 2009
Deviant Detours, The Kunsthaus gallery, San Miguel, Mexico, 2009
Insomnia, The Redhead Gallery, Nuit Blanche, 2008
Fluid, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, 2007
Baghdad Museum, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, 2005
Baghdad Museum, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, 2004
Baghdad Museum, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, 2004
Memory/Nature, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2000
Artists in the Community
The Secret Garden, YWCA, Oshawa, 2014
Beyond Fences, YWCA, Oshawa 2014
International Woman’s day
Central Branch Whitby library, 2011
Artsweek in Peterborough, Millenium Park, 2010
Isabella’s Café, Downtown Oshawa, 2010
BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake New York 2008,2010
Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden 2009
Durham College - UOIT campus Oshawa 2008
Royal Society Conference, U of A, Edmonton 2007
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa 2006
Byng Studio Gallery and Downtown Bowmanville, 2005
Awards
Ontario Arts Council Individual Artist Grants, Material Assistance, 2000-2016
artsVest, Ontario Trillium Funding, 2014
Partnership Grants, City of Oshawa, 2014 and 2012
Catalogues/Publications
Filmic, 2015
White Out, 2014
Nuit Blanche, 2014
Fluid II, 2009
Edge, 2009
Fluid 1, 2007
Museum Baghdad, 2004
Memory /Nature, 2000
Women in . . . Volumes 1 - 3 2005 - 2010
CLICK for Rogers Daytime show Oct 02 2014
January 9 2015:
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HISTORY
The IRIS Group,
a collective of women artists, began in 1996 as a forum to share ideas, offer mutual support, and develop projects that further the overall intentions of the group. Based in Durham Region, IRIS has exhibited work and mounted outreach projects in galleries and on campuses in Ontario, Alberta, New York State and Mexico. Recently several members developed a garden project with YWCA Durham.
Projects have included:
· Women Reflecting Women'96 IWD exhibition, Niagara Falls Art Gallery, Feb-April 1996
. IRIS invites BAWAA to Durham for studio visits (August 1996)
· Development of a mentoring program proposing to sponsor a female graduate in developing an exhibition
· Participation in IWD exhibitions at Niagara Falls Art Gallery (1996–97)
· Group exhibition at Durham Board of Education Centre (1998) including collaborative piece titled copperquilt
· Memory and Nature: The IRIS Group at the Millennium group exhibitions at RMG (Oshawa) and AGN (Cobourg)
· Workshops sharing skills among members
· FREE ART – bookmarks made from chopped paintings, labelled with Free Art stickers and distributed in area Libraries. FREE Art cash register tapes at A&P store (Wallace and Rodgers)
· Small works at Liisa’s Velvet Elvis café. (2001)
· Baghdad Museum exhibition organized by the Iris Group for Iris and Friends. Its purpose was to create an expressive reconstruction of the artifacts that were looted or destroyed in Baghdad during the recent conflict and to raise money to contribute to humanitarian aid. Proceeds from sales revenue were shared between the artist and the Canadian Red Cross. Venues were VAC Clarington, Latcham Gallery Stouffville, and Propeller Centre in Toronto.
· Women in … IWD events 2005-2011 (Bowmanville, Oshawa, Edmonton, Saranac Lake NY, Minden, Peterborough, Whitby)
· Summer Projects – outdoor projections of works by group members
· FLUID exhibition at Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, 2007.
· FLUID 2 at Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden 2009
· IRIS joins Red Head Gallery as a collective within a collective 2007.
· Deviant Detours at Kunsthaus, Mexico 2009
· EDGE exhibition at Red Head March 2009
· Brooklyn Art Library Art House Co-op “The Fiction Project” 2010.
· AGYU Artist's Book of the Moment entry http://www.theagyuisoutthere.org/abotm/books/?s=iris&searchsubmit=Find
· Artsweek events Peterborough September 2010
· The IRIS Group exhibition, Central Branch, Whitby Public Library March 1 – 31 2011
· IRIS@BOLA August 2011
· IRIS in Oshawa Community Partnership Grant Program May 2012
· 2013 Oshawa Space Invaders at 16 King St East September 13-28
· 2013 FREE workshop for Culture Days September 28
· 2014 - 2015 YWCA Durham project
· 2014 Oshawa Space Invaders at 14 Ontario St September 19 - 27
· 2014 WhiteOut, an official Independent Project for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2014 at TAC Art/Work Gallery, 538 Richmond, TO October 4 - 30
· 2015 exhibition Filmic at Station Gallery, Whitby
- 2016 IRIS at 20 in Gallery A at RMG Oshawa
2017 Women in Art Projects/CWSE Gallery, OISE, Toronto, ON
Our Sense of Place, ONLINE ZOOM, and on our website, 2020
Iris Group members in Durham Reach, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2017
Videos
Margaret Rodgers - WhiteOut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E4EMtjBPl0&feature=youtu.be
The IRIS Group,
a collective of women artists, began in 1996 as a forum to share ideas, offer mutual support, and develop projects that further the overall intentions of the group. Based in Durham Region, IRIS has exhibited work and mounted outreach projects in galleries and on campuses in Ontario, Alberta, New York State and Mexico. Recently several members developed a garden project with YWCA Durham.
Projects have included:
· Women Reflecting Women'96 IWD exhibition, Niagara Falls Art Gallery, Feb-April 1996
. IRIS invites BAWAA to Durham for studio visits (August 1996)
· Development of a mentoring program proposing to sponsor a female graduate in developing an exhibition
· Participation in IWD exhibitions at Niagara Falls Art Gallery (1996–97)
· Group exhibition at Durham Board of Education Centre (1998) including collaborative piece titled copperquilt
· Memory and Nature: The IRIS Group at the Millennium group exhibitions at RMG (Oshawa) and AGN (Cobourg)
· Workshops sharing skills among members
· FREE ART – bookmarks made from chopped paintings, labelled with Free Art stickers and distributed in area Libraries. FREE Art cash register tapes at A&P store (Wallace and Rodgers)
· Small works at Liisa’s Velvet Elvis café. (2001)
· Baghdad Museum exhibition organized by the Iris Group for Iris and Friends. Its purpose was to create an expressive reconstruction of the artifacts that were looted or destroyed in Baghdad during the recent conflict and to raise money to contribute to humanitarian aid. Proceeds from sales revenue were shared between the artist and the Canadian Red Cross. Venues were VAC Clarington, Latcham Gallery Stouffville, and Propeller Centre in Toronto.
· Women in … IWD events 2005-2011 (Bowmanville, Oshawa, Edmonton, Saranac Lake NY, Minden, Peterborough, Whitby)
· Summer Projects – outdoor projections of works by group members
· FLUID exhibition at Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, 2007.
· FLUID 2 at Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden 2009
· IRIS joins Red Head Gallery as a collective within a collective 2007.
· Deviant Detours at Kunsthaus, Mexico 2009
· EDGE exhibition at Red Head March 2009
· Brooklyn Art Library Art House Co-op “The Fiction Project” 2010.
· AGYU Artist's Book of the Moment entry http://www.theagyuisoutthere.org/abotm/books/?s=iris&searchsubmit=Find
· Artsweek events Peterborough September 2010
· The IRIS Group exhibition, Central Branch, Whitby Public Library March 1 – 31 2011
· IRIS@BOLA August 2011
· IRIS in Oshawa Community Partnership Grant Program May 2012
· 2013 Oshawa Space Invaders at 16 King St East September 13-28
· 2013 FREE workshop for Culture Days September 28
· 2014 - 2015 YWCA Durham project
· 2014 Oshawa Space Invaders at 14 Ontario St September 19 - 27
· 2014 WhiteOut, an official Independent Project for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2014 at TAC Art/Work Gallery, 538 Richmond, TO October 4 - 30
· 2015 exhibition Filmic at Station Gallery, Whitby
- 2016 IRIS at 20 in Gallery A at RMG Oshawa
2017 Women in Art Projects/CWSE Gallery, OISE, Toronto, ON
Our Sense of Place, ONLINE ZOOM, and on our website, 2020
Iris Group members in Durham Reach, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2017
Videos
Margaret Rodgers - WhiteOut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E4EMtjBPl0&feature=youtu.be
Submission to COLLECTIVE CITY ARTS (prepared by Sally Thurlow and Mary Ellen McQuay)
The IRIS Group,
a collective of women artists, began in 1996 as a forum to share ideas, offer mutual support, and develop projects that further the overall intentions of the group. Based in Durham Region, IRIS has exhibited work and mounted outreach projects in galleries and on campuses in Ontario, Alberta, New York State and Mexico. IRIS is a member of CARFAC Ontario.
PHOTOS FOR COLLECTIVE CITY ARTS
Photographers of these images
Mary Ellen McQuay - MEM
Sally Thurlow - ST
Jean Michel Komarnicki - JMK
Margaret Rodgers - MR
Wendy Wallace - WW
Laura Hair - LH
Janice Taylor - JP
Judith Mason - JM
Steven Frank - SF
40 Photos
1. Catalogues and pamphlet covers, etc, 1998 - 2010, MEM
2. Catalogues and pamphlet covers, etc, 2010 - 2021, MEM
Edge: The Iris Group (as 1 member) of The Red Head Gallery, Toronto,ON, 2009
3. Installations by Maralynn Cherry, Garment (the interior weaves its own way), oil on canvas, 2008, and Sally Thurlow, Freedom, driftwood limbs, screw, nails, steel plate base on steel table, 2008-9 with Terpsechordia musicians, ST
4. Mary Ellen McQuay, Sweet Water on Edge, Silver Gelatin prints: detail from slide show, MEM
Red Head and Iris Group at Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico,
Deviant Detours 2009
5. Wendy Wallace, Of Mice and Elephants, Acrylic on 100% rag paper, 2008, Sally Thurlow, Gavotte, fibreglass, steel base, ST
Baghdad Museum at Propeller June, 2005
6. Sally Thurlow, Impala Shard, plywood, acrylic, paper map, steel marble, and
Karen Buck-Mackintosh, Failing to Protect the Lady of Uruk, mixed media, ST
7. Baghdad Museum window at the Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2005, ST
8. Getting ready for Group of Seven photo; Wendy Wallace, Janice Prebble, Margaret Rodgers, Holly McClellan 2005, Bowmanville ON, ST
FLUID II Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden ON, September 2009,
9. Wendy Wallace, Rise and Fall, Acrylic on canvas and
Ruth Read, The Garden in Winter Series, Brown kraft paper, dyed w/India ink, bamboo, 2 elastics, ST
10. Laura Hair, Title: Of Becoming # lll , Spray paint on Mylar, acrylic tubes, ST
11. Margaret Rodgers, Power and Light, acrylic on canvas, 2005, MR
12. Holly McClellan, working on Garbage Dress series in Minden, ON, ST
13. Janice Prebble, A History of Small Gatherings, handprints in gesso, wood frame, fluorescent lights, 2008, JP
Bluseed Studios, Saranac Lake July 2010
14. Saranac Lake, Group photo Margaret Rodgers, Laura Hair, Janice Prebble, Holly McClellan, Sally Thurlow, unknown photographer
Secret Garden, Adelaide House, Oshawa, ON, 2014,
15. April 2014, Judith Mason, Sally Thurlow, Margaret Rodgers, Laura Hair, standing with shovels ready, MEM
16. Finished! July 2014, Margaret Rodgers, Elizabeth Brighton, Sally Thurlow, including painted sticks; acrylic on driftwood, by residents of Adelaide House, MEM
Iris in Space Invaders
17. Mary Ellen McQuay, Fluid Dynamics, Ink Jet Prints, 2014, ME
18. Judith Mason standing with her papier maché people, “chicken wire” steel structure, paper, flour, SF
19. Margaret Rodgers and her paintings, SF
20. Rowena at table with young art-makers, Gary Greenwood and Margaret Rodgers in background, SF
FILMIC, Station Gallery, Whitby, ON, 2015,
21. FILMIC Iris Group with Iris Group banner
22. Sally Thurlow, Old World View, mixed media (1960’s educational film kits, audio), 2015, JMK
23. Janice Prebble, Whitewashed, Do You Measure Up? etching on paper with collage & paint, 2015, JMK
24. Margaret Rodgers, Bigfootage, silt cloth, silk organza, transfer, 2015, JMK
25. Installation; Judith Mason, Projection, oil on canvas, Rowena Dykins, The DNA Dance, oil on canvas, Mary Ellen McQuay, Lightbox, JMK
26. Mary Ellen McQuay, Digital Messengers, digital negatives, lightbox 2015, MEM
27. Wendy Wallace work, Alien in Alberta, inkjet print, JMK
28. Laura Hair, Margaret’s Amber I & II, Duralar, Mylar, graphite, ink, pastel, metal 2010, JMK
Iris At 20 at RMG, 2016
29. Janice Prebble, Power Tower 2, Power Tower 3, canvas, acrylic, MEM transfer,watercolour, ink, gold leaf canvas and Archive Bowl, MEM
30. Laura Hair, Widows’ Weeds, painting on paper, and small framed works, MEM
31. Judith Mason, with Pink Octopus, MEM
32. Group works installation; Mary Ellen McQuay, Heart Chambers, Ink Jet print, 2016, Sally Thurlow, Turgid Tides, fibreglass vessel, Text, mainly plastic detritus, inside, Margaret Rodgers, Jane at 80, Acrylic on canvas, Wendy Wallace, Morning Bitches, Mixed media on paper, MEM
Durham Reach, RMG, Oshawa, ON, 2017
33. Laura Hair, The Way of Trees, graphite, oil bar on mylar, 2011, LH
34. Janice Prebble, Morphed Tower I, (Beyoncé), steel, 2017, LH
35. Sally Thurlow, Corset-Kayak, various woods, linen cord, sea shells, 1999, SF
Our Own Sense of Place: ONLINE EXHIBITION, 2020
36. Margaret Rodgers, Ice and Lace, Mixed media, acrylic on mounted canvas
37. Judith Mason, from Life in Egypt Series #2, Mixed media on canvas,
38. Judith Mason, #3, Mixed media on canvas
39. Wendy Wallace, Plasticity, photo montage with mylar overlay,
40. Mary Ellen McQuay, Sheltering #1, Digital Photographs,
Iris Group Projects have included:
· IRIS invites BAWAA to Durham for studio visits (August 1996)
· Development of a mentoring program proposing to sponsor a female graduate in developing an exhibition
· Participation in IWD exhibitions at Niagara Falls Art Gallery (1996–97)
· Group exhibition at Durham Board of Education Centre (1998) including collaborative piece, Copper Quilt
· Memory and Nature: The IRIS Group at the Millennium, group exhibitions at RMG (Oshawa) and AGN (Cobourg) ON
· Workshops sharing skills among members
· FREE ART – bookmarks made from chopped paintings, labelled with Free Art stickers and distributed in area Libraries. FREE Art cash register tapes at A&P store (Wallace and Rodgers)
· Small works at Liisa’s Velvet Elvis café. (2001)
· Baghdad Museum exhibition organized by the Iris Group for Iris and Friends. Its purpose was to create an expressive reconstruction of the artifacts that were looted or destroyed in Baghdad during the recent conflict and to raise money to contribute to humanitarian aid. Proceeds from sales revenue were shared between the artist and the Canadian Red Cross. Venues were VAC Clarington, Latcham Gallery Stouffville, and Propeller Centre in Toronto.
· Women in … IWD events 2005-2011 (Bowmanville, Oshawa, Edmonton, Saranac Lake NY, Minden, Peterborough, Whitby)
· Summer Projects – outdoor projections of works by group members
· FLUID exhibition at Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, 2007.
· FLUID 2 at Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden 2009
· IRIS joins Red Head Gallery as a collective within a collective 2007.
· Deviant Detours at Kunsthaus, Mexico 2009
· EDGE exhibition at Red Head March 2009
· Brooklyn Art Library Art House Co-op “The Fiction Project” 2010.
· AGYU Artist's Book of the Moment entry http://www.theagyuisoutthere.org/ abotm/books/?s=iris&searchsubmit=Find
· Artsweek events Peterborough September 2010
· The IRIS Group exhibition, Central Branch, Whitby Public Library,
March 1 – 31 2011
· IRIS@BOLA August 2011
· IRIS in Oshawa Community Partnership Grant Program May 2012
· 2013 Oshawa Space Invaders at 16 King St East September 13-28
· 2013 FREE workshop for Culture Days September 28
· 2014 - 2015 YWCA Durham project
· 2014 Oshawa Space Invaders at 14 Ontario St September 19 - 27
· 2014 WhiteOut, an official Independent Project for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2014 at TAC Art/Work Gallery, 538 Richmond, TO October 4 - 30
· May 2015 exhibition Filmic at Station Gallery, Whitby
- March 2016 IRIS at 20 in Gallery A at RMG Oshawa
Exhibitions
Our Sense of Place, ONLINE ZOOM, and on our website, 2020
Iris Group members in Durham Reach, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2017
Women in Art Projects/CWSE Gallery, OISE, Toronto, ON, 2017
Iris at 20, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, 2016
Filmic, The Station Gallery, Whitby, ON, 2015
WhiteOut – Iris and Friends, Toronto, ON Arts Council Gallery, Nuit Blanche, 2014
Oshawa Space Invaders, Downtown Oshawa, ON, 2013, 2014
Iris@Bola, Downtown Oshawa, ON, 2012
Iris in the Adirondacks, BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake, NY, 2010
The Fiction Project, Art House, Brooklyn Art Library, NY, 2010
Fluid II, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden, ON, 2009
Edge, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2009
Deviant Detours, The Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2009
Insomnia, The Red Head Gallery, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON 2008
Fluid, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON, 2007
Baghdad Museum, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2005
Baghdad Museum, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON, 2004
Baghdad Museum, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, ON, 2004
Memory & Nature, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, ON, 2000
Videos
Margaret Rodgers - WhiteOut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E4EMtjBPl0&feature=youtu.be
WhiteOut - THE IRIS GROUP WOMEN ARTISTS' COLLECTIVEwww.theirisgroup.ca › uploads › whiteoutcat_jan26
PDF
WhiteOut. Stills from the. WhiteOut video ~. Sally Thurlow,. Judith A. Mason,. Laura M. Hair,. Margaret Rodgers. Opening night. 5 ...
List of Former Members
Marjatta Beasley
Maralynn Cherry
Rowena Dykins
Ruth Latimer
Merike Lugus
Helen MacDonald
Holly McClellan
Judy Metcalf
Eva Mustapha
Ruth Read
Kim Stallworthy
a collective of women artists, began in 1996 as a forum to share ideas, offer mutual support, and develop projects that further the overall intentions of the group. Based in Durham Region, IRIS has exhibited work and mounted outreach projects in galleries and on campuses in Ontario, Alberta, New York State and Mexico. IRIS is a member of CARFAC Ontario.
PHOTOS FOR COLLECTIVE CITY ARTS
Photographers of these images
Mary Ellen McQuay - MEM
Sally Thurlow - ST
Jean Michel Komarnicki - JMK
Margaret Rodgers - MR
Wendy Wallace - WW
Laura Hair - LH
Janice Taylor - JP
Judith Mason - JM
Steven Frank - SF
40 Photos
1. Catalogues and pamphlet covers, etc, 1998 - 2010, MEM
2. Catalogues and pamphlet covers, etc, 2010 - 2021, MEM
Edge: The Iris Group (as 1 member) of The Red Head Gallery, Toronto,ON, 2009
3. Installations by Maralynn Cherry, Garment (the interior weaves its own way), oil on canvas, 2008, and Sally Thurlow, Freedom, driftwood limbs, screw, nails, steel plate base on steel table, 2008-9 with Terpsechordia musicians, ST
4. Mary Ellen McQuay, Sweet Water on Edge, Silver Gelatin prints: detail from slide show, MEM
Red Head and Iris Group at Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico,
Deviant Detours 2009
5. Wendy Wallace, Of Mice and Elephants, Acrylic on 100% rag paper, 2008, Sally Thurlow, Gavotte, fibreglass, steel base, ST
Baghdad Museum at Propeller June, 2005
6. Sally Thurlow, Impala Shard, plywood, acrylic, paper map, steel marble, and
Karen Buck-Mackintosh, Failing to Protect the Lady of Uruk, mixed media, ST
7. Baghdad Museum window at the Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2005, ST
8. Getting ready for Group of Seven photo; Wendy Wallace, Janice Prebble, Margaret Rodgers, Holly McClellan 2005, Bowmanville ON, ST
FLUID II Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden ON, September 2009,
9. Wendy Wallace, Rise and Fall, Acrylic on canvas and
Ruth Read, The Garden in Winter Series, Brown kraft paper, dyed w/India ink, bamboo, 2 elastics, ST
10. Laura Hair, Title: Of Becoming # lll , Spray paint on Mylar, acrylic tubes, ST
11. Margaret Rodgers, Power and Light, acrylic on canvas, 2005, MR
12. Holly McClellan, working on Garbage Dress series in Minden, ON, ST
13. Janice Prebble, A History of Small Gatherings, handprints in gesso, wood frame, fluorescent lights, 2008, JP
Bluseed Studios, Saranac Lake July 2010
14. Saranac Lake, Group photo Margaret Rodgers, Laura Hair, Janice Prebble, Holly McClellan, Sally Thurlow, unknown photographer
Secret Garden, Adelaide House, Oshawa, ON, 2014,
15. April 2014, Judith Mason, Sally Thurlow, Margaret Rodgers, Laura Hair, standing with shovels ready, MEM
16. Finished! July 2014, Margaret Rodgers, Elizabeth Brighton, Sally Thurlow, including painted sticks; acrylic on driftwood, by residents of Adelaide House, MEM
Iris in Space Invaders
17. Mary Ellen McQuay, Fluid Dynamics, Ink Jet Prints, 2014, ME
18. Judith Mason standing with her papier maché people, “chicken wire” steel structure, paper, flour, SF
19. Margaret Rodgers and her paintings, SF
20. Rowena at table with young art-makers, Gary Greenwood and Margaret Rodgers in background, SF
FILMIC, Station Gallery, Whitby, ON, 2015,
21. FILMIC Iris Group with Iris Group banner
22. Sally Thurlow, Old World View, mixed media (1960’s educational film kits, audio), 2015, JMK
23. Janice Prebble, Whitewashed, Do You Measure Up? etching on paper with collage & paint, 2015, JMK
24. Margaret Rodgers, Bigfootage, silt cloth, silk organza, transfer, 2015, JMK
25. Installation; Judith Mason, Projection, oil on canvas, Rowena Dykins, The DNA Dance, oil on canvas, Mary Ellen McQuay, Lightbox, JMK
26. Mary Ellen McQuay, Digital Messengers, digital negatives, lightbox 2015, MEM
27. Wendy Wallace work, Alien in Alberta, inkjet print, JMK
28. Laura Hair, Margaret’s Amber I & II, Duralar, Mylar, graphite, ink, pastel, metal 2010, JMK
Iris At 20 at RMG, 2016
29. Janice Prebble, Power Tower 2, Power Tower 3, canvas, acrylic, MEM transfer,watercolour, ink, gold leaf canvas and Archive Bowl, MEM
30. Laura Hair, Widows’ Weeds, painting on paper, and small framed works, MEM
31. Judith Mason, with Pink Octopus, MEM
32. Group works installation; Mary Ellen McQuay, Heart Chambers, Ink Jet print, 2016, Sally Thurlow, Turgid Tides, fibreglass vessel, Text, mainly plastic detritus, inside, Margaret Rodgers, Jane at 80, Acrylic on canvas, Wendy Wallace, Morning Bitches, Mixed media on paper, MEM
Durham Reach, RMG, Oshawa, ON, 2017
33. Laura Hair, The Way of Trees, graphite, oil bar on mylar, 2011, LH
34. Janice Prebble, Morphed Tower I, (Beyoncé), steel, 2017, LH
35. Sally Thurlow, Corset-Kayak, various woods, linen cord, sea shells, 1999, SF
Our Own Sense of Place: ONLINE EXHIBITION, 2020
36. Margaret Rodgers, Ice and Lace, Mixed media, acrylic on mounted canvas
37. Judith Mason, from Life in Egypt Series #2, Mixed media on canvas,
38. Judith Mason, #3, Mixed media on canvas
39. Wendy Wallace, Plasticity, photo montage with mylar overlay,
40. Mary Ellen McQuay, Sheltering #1, Digital Photographs,
Iris Group Projects have included:
· IRIS invites BAWAA to Durham for studio visits (August 1996)
· Development of a mentoring program proposing to sponsor a female graduate in developing an exhibition
· Participation in IWD exhibitions at Niagara Falls Art Gallery (1996–97)
· Group exhibition at Durham Board of Education Centre (1998) including collaborative piece, Copper Quilt
· Memory and Nature: The IRIS Group at the Millennium, group exhibitions at RMG (Oshawa) and AGN (Cobourg) ON
· Workshops sharing skills among members
· FREE ART – bookmarks made from chopped paintings, labelled with Free Art stickers and distributed in area Libraries. FREE Art cash register tapes at A&P store (Wallace and Rodgers)
· Small works at Liisa’s Velvet Elvis café. (2001)
· Baghdad Museum exhibition organized by the Iris Group for Iris and Friends. Its purpose was to create an expressive reconstruction of the artifacts that were looted or destroyed in Baghdad during the recent conflict and to raise money to contribute to humanitarian aid. Proceeds from sales revenue were shared between the artist and the Canadian Red Cross. Venues were VAC Clarington, Latcham Gallery Stouffville, and Propeller Centre in Toronto.
· Women in … IWD events 2005-2011 (Bowmanville, Oshawa, Edmonton, Saranac Lake NY, Minden, Peterborough, Whitby)
· Summer Projects – outdoor projections of works by group members
· FLUID exhibition at Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, 2007.
· FLUID 2 at Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden 2009
· IRIS joins Red Head Gallery as a collective within a collective 2007.
· Deviant Detours at Kunsthaus, Mexico 2009
· EDGE exhibition at Red Head March 2009
· Brooklyn Art Library Art House Co-op “The Fiction Project” 2010.
· AGYU Artist's Book of the Moment entry http://www.theagyuisoutthere.org/ abotm/books/?s=iris&searchsubmit=Find
· Artsweek events Peterborough September 2010
· The IRIS Group exhibition, Central Branch, Whitby Public Library,
March 1 – 31 2011
· IRIS@BOLA August 2011
· IRIS in Oshawa Community Partnership Grant Program May 2012
· 2013 Oshawa Space Invaders at 16 King St East September 13-28
· 2013 FREE workshop for Culture Days September 28
· 2014 - 2015 YWCA Durham project
· 2014 Oshawa Space Invaders at 14 Ontario St September 19 - 27
· 2014 WhiteOut, an official Independent Project for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2014 at TAC Art/Work Gallery, 538 Richmond, TO October 4 - 30
· May 2015 exhibition Filmic at Station Gallery, Whitby
- March 2016 IRIS at 20 in Gallery A at RMG Oshawa
Exhibitions
Our Sense of Place, ONLINE ZOOM, and on our website, 2020
Iris Group members in Durham Reach, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2017
Women in Art Projects/CWSE Gallery, OISE, Toronto, ON, 2017
Iris at 20, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, 2016
Filmic, The Station Gallery, Whitby, ON, 2015
WhiteOut – Iris and Friends, Toronto, ON Arts Council Gallery, Nuit Blanche, 2014
Oshawa Space Invaders, Downtown Oshawa, ON, 2013, 2014
Iris@Bola, Downtown Oshawa, ON, 2012
Iris in the Adirondacks, BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake, NY, 2010
The Fiction Project, Art House, Brooklyn Art Library, NY, 2010
Fluid II, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden, ON, 2009
Edge, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2009
Deviant Detours, The Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2009
Insomnia, The Red Head Gallery, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON 2008
Fluid, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON, 2007
Baghdad Museum, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2005
Baghdad Museum, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON, 2004
Baghdad Museum, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, ON, 2004
Memory & Nature, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, ON, 2000
Videos
Margaret Rodgers - WhiteOut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E4EMtjBPl0&feature=youtu.be
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WhiteOut. Stills from the. WhiteOut video ~. Sally Thurlow,. Judith A. Mason,. Laura M. Hair,. Margaret Rodgers. Opening night. 5 ...
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