This year, Georgina Lohan Studio will be vending from the Granville Island Market!

Our booth features our pottery and is set up in the center section of the market for 1-2 weeks per month, from April 2024- March 2025.

We are there August 1 - 11, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.

We hope to see you there!

Fire: Creation and Destruction

An Exhibition with the Sculptors’ Society of BC (SSBC) and 6 invited indigenous artists

September 19 through to December 31, 2024

Fire season spans the late summer to early autumn from August 25 until October 31 each year. This theme serves as a catalyst for discussion on this season of danger which causes chalk-coloured skies in this city and an array of health issues. It also has given rise to extreme devastation in the interior of BC. In order to explore the impact of these annual fires on our city, Il Museo gallery invited the Sculptors’ Society of BC and 6 indigenous artists (as well as one fibre artist and a painter) to focus on the power of fire and its impact in their artistic work.

Many depict diverse cultural traditions which treat fire as a destructive element such as Bill Thomson’s Roman god Vulcan or Gennadiy Zhukov’s Icarus, who is said to have flown too close to the sun. Others such as Aaron Rice, Angelo Cavagnaro, look to their indigenous communities’ sense of fire as a powerful element which can only be used in culturally proscribed manner when paired with water, the only other element of nature which gives balance to fire’s capacity for destruction.

Additionally, Debra Sparrow, who partners with SSBC Member Louise Solecki Weir collaborating on a figurative piece The Runner, captures an athlete midstride, en route to convey messages that bringing news and warnings. As well, Annie Ross in her installation Happy Birthday Super Cheaper, brings attention to the multitude of animals from the forests that are displaced and need protection during the wildfires. Finally, Autumn Christopher, who is Nlakapamux, living close to the Lytton fires in Kamloops shares the painting Imminence, a liminal moment in time, prior to destruction.

Georgina Lohan investigates fire in a metaphorical context, as an illuminating element contributing to human potential.

Please join us for this exhibition. The opening event takes place on September 19,

2024. There will also be fire themed lectures hosted by the Vancouver Historical Society

on October 24 and a demo with the SSBC at the Christmas market Sunday, Dec. 8.*

This exhibition is generously funded by MetroVancouver and the City of Vancouver.

Our West Coast dealer is Razali May at Gallery 8 on Saltspring Island.

Gallery 8 showcases a plethora of sculpture and painting from BC artists.