Selected from the MSVU Permanent Collection, the works in this exhibition consider our relationship with nature and how repetitive acts of human interaction can transform the purpose and history of a place or an object, shaping its significance and meaning over time. Featuring works by Renate Deppe, Gathie Falk, Carol Fraser, and Kelly Mark.
Featured image: Beautiful British Columbia Thermal Blanket – Huyen 1980, Gathie Falk. Oil on canvas quilted and stuffed with fibreglass insulation. Collection, MSVU Art Gallery.
![Falk used Instamatic photographs of friends in her Kitsilano garden for the Beautiful British Columbia Thermal Blanket series. The title sets up expectations of spectacular BC landscapes, but instead, we are offered the intimate space of a backyard garden, serving as a backdrop for portraits of the artist’s close friends. For Falk, these friendships are part of what makes BC beautiful. The artist’s friends portrayed in the series each helped to sew the resulting quilt, creating a work that “preserves, protects, [and] insulates” personal relationships and histories.](https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MarksandRecreation_06-600x400.jpeg "Beautiful British Columbia Thermal Blanket - Huyen (1980) by Gathie Falk")
