Exhibits: Grief and Grievance: Sites of Change ft. Briony Haig and Barb Bottle

Friday, January 20 – Saturday, March 4

Opening Event: Friday, January 20 at 7:30 PM

Barb Bottle ( she/her ) is a queer inter-disciplinary artist, white settler, and guest on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bottle received her BFA from the University of Manitoba, and completed the Mentoring Artists for Women's Art Foundation Mentorship program with mentor Sarah Crawley in 2020. Working in photography, video, sound, textiles, installation, and performance, Bottle explores themes of memory, grief, loss, and aging.

Briony Haig works in figurative and bas-relief sculpture, painting and animation. She studied art at the University of Manitoba School of Art, at the Northwest Polymer Clay Guild, at the TICA program at the Chicago School of Art, drawing at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and participated in the yearlong Foundation Mentorship program at Mentoring Artists for Women's Art. Haig continues to work with the support of her amazing mentor Brenna George.

Haig has shown in galleries across Manitoba. Her artwork is in private residences across Canada. Haig has always been a part of artist groups or artistic activities, belonging to art groups and artist teacher groups. She taught art in Portage through the ArtSmarts program in the 1990s and in her home studio. She taught art at Elmwood High School in Winnipeg from 2001- 2015 and learned so much about art through that work. She recently ended a long service on the board of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art and is a member of the Gimli Art Club and the Bechdel Seven artist collective. She painted virtually every day of the pandemic and found solace in it.

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