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Check out the latest exhibition, Maritime Minute by Les Ramsay
September 4 – October 30, 2025
Make sure to check out Les Ramsay's solo exhibition, Maritime Minute, at Forest City Gallery.
In Maritime Minute, west coast artist Les Ramsay presents a series of abstract paintings, sculpture, and needlepoint works that meditate on coastal landscapes, fleeting time, and the quiet urgency of environmental change.
Drawing from the language of maritime imagery—tidal shifts, passing storms, forgotten harbours—the exhibition offers a fragmented, atmospheric glimpse into a world both familiar and dissolving. Through layered textures and intuitive forms, the artist captures the strange stillness of moments suspended between beauty and erosion, presence and disappearance.
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Upcoming FCG Pier Exhibition - Argyle Ribbon Project
Sharmistha Kar, Anindita Chakraborty, and Amsa Yaro
Closing Reception - Thursday, October 16th from 5-7pm
Exhibition presented in collaboration with Leah Thomas-Gray, Creative Director of the Argyle BIA
Save the date! Check out the upcoming FCG Pier exhibition from September 11th - October 18th featuring the Argyle Ribbon Project public art series.
The Argyle Ribbon is a series of 53 painted art panels created by Sharmistha Kar, Anindita Chakraborty and Amsa Yaro that tell the story of the Argyle area of London, Ontario, installed at the Clark House (1903 Avalon St).
Through the use of acrylic and other materials manufactured by local trades, this artistic collaboration applies gathered research and community input of the former London Township related to the cultural stories, historic economies and development, industrial inventions, and settlements from the area’s original inhabitants to current times.
Join us for the Closing Reception on Thursday, October 16th from 5-7pm! |
Join us for a Reading & Art Exhibit event this Friday evening
We are looking forward to hosting a Reading and Art Exhibit at Forest City Gallery on Friday September 12th from 6-8pm.
The event will feature two Canadian authors and an artist—CBC Literary Awards prizewinning writer Joanna Cockerline, author of the new novel Still, Kevin Andrew Heslop, author of The Writing on the Wind's Wall: Dialogues about ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’, and international multidisciplinary artist Leslie Putnam, displaying her vibro tactile sculptures.
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Join us for The Fikra House Research Creation Media Collab Workshop this Saturday
Saturday September 13th 1-4pm Free
Facilitated by: Ola Idris and Ayat Salih
The Fikra House Research Creation Workshop is an immersive learning experience where emerging artists will explore possible ways to the never-ending challenge of how to start an art project. Our answer is through research skills, introspection, and each other.
This 4-hour session will employ a circular learning pedagogy to offer instruction and guidance for the logistical and intangible skills required for research creation and eventual art-making. This will be facilitated by artistic activities and experiential learning to enhance the peer-to-peer structure, empowering our consciousness-raising as a group and giving us all a chance to learn with each other.
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Check out the Paper Rain: Exploring Digital Cutting for Installation Art Media Collab Workshop
Saturday September 27th 1 - 4pm Free
Facilitated by Mackenzie Browning
Paper Rain: Exploring Digital Cutting for Installation Art is a hands-on workshop that introduces participants to digital cutting technology (Cricut and Cameo) as a creative tool for interdisciplinary and installation-based art.
Using a low barrier, process-driven approach, the workshop guides participants through contour drawing, scanning, and importing images into digital cutting software to produce intricate cut-paper forms.
Together, we will cut multiple sheets of recycled paper into raindrop shapes and assemble them with a sewing machine to create a suspended paper-rain installation. This workshop bridges traditional and digital methods, making digital fabrication accessible to artists who want to expand their practice into new media.
All materials - including a scanner, computer, digital cutter, recycled paper, and sewing machine - are provided. |
Save the Date for the Forest City Gallery AGM
You are invited to join us for the Forest City Gallery Annual General Meeting on Thursday, October 9th from 5:30-7:30pm.
We look forward to sharing the exciting updates and work that the gallery has completed over this past year, and more information on the plans to come.
The AGM is an opportunity to meet our current Board of Directors, elect new members to the Board of Directors, learn about the work we have done throughout the past year, and to hear about new programming and community initiatives.
We hope to see you there!
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Apply for Exhibition Assistance through the Ontario Arts Council
Are you a Southwestern Ontario artist looking for financial assistance for exhibition presentation costs?
Forest City Gallery is a recommender as part of the Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance program, now open for 2025-26! Grants assist with artists’ costs related to the presentation of artwork in a confirmed, public exhibition.
Zone 1 artists can apply online through the OAC Nova portal, listing Forest City Gallery as a recommender.
Our next deadline is October 10th at 1pm.
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Upcoming and Ongoing Community Events, Calls and Opportunities
Opening reception - September 20, 7-9pm in collaboration with Nuit Blanche
*Mongrels, Boy From Nowhere, Myrtle Earle, Escapiam, Thelonious Fallopian Tubas and Red Quasars, $10 admission Sunday, Sept. 21, 1-6 p.m., Palasad Socialbowl
Good Sport Gallery & Studio has 1 Resident Artist Studio space available at 402.5 Richmond St. You can find the application form here.
Xuux Artists Studio (455 Horton St. E) - AV Nights 1 | An Immersive Arts Showcase -presented by BlueHeron Interactive & Co-presented w/ Nuit Blanche Saturday, September 13th - 6pm, $10 in advance, $15 at door
Museum London - Billy Bert Young - Cloudburst - August 30 - February 15 2026
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Our mailing address is:1025 Elias Street London, Ontario, N5W 3P6 Canada FCG's programs and exhibitions are free and accessible to all thanks to the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, London Arts Council, and the London Community Foundation. We are grateful to our artists, members, volunteers, donors, and community partners. Our operations rely on your generous and dedicated support. Please consider becoming a member of FCG.For information on our programming, or for other general inquiries please contact the gallery at info@forestcitygallery.com Copyright © 2025 Forest City Gallery. All rights reserved.You received this email because you subscribed to our list. You can unsubscribe at any time. |
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