2025
Exhibition Residencies
20/07/2017 - 19/08/2017
Donna Legault
I am an Ottawa based artist working in the field electronic art, sound installation, sculpture and performance. The intersections of these practices find focus in the resonance of sound as a dynamic extension of everyday actions. My interest in the perception of sound and touch draws participant’s attention towards the relational qualities of “noise” as a material and temporal presence. My work reveals an ongoing interest in interpersonal communication and, more recently, in the impact of mediated communication and its effects on interactions and the perception of spaces of relational exchange. I work in both representational and mediated forms to explore the dissolution and permeation of exchange across physical and psychological spaces.
Donna Legault is an experimental artist based in Ottawa, Canada. Her cross-disciplinary practice includes sound, electronic installation, sculpture, and performance. The intersection of these practices focus on the resonance of sound as a dynamic extension of everyday actions. She holds degrees in Art History from Carleton University, and in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa. She is currently a part-time professor of Electronic Arts at both The Davis School of Art in Ottawa and The University of Ottawa. Donna has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions, festivals and conferences, including Send + Receive in Winnipeg, Subtle Technologies Festival in Toronto; Emmedia and Truck Gallery in Calgary; Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery; AXENEO7 in Gatineau; Espace F in Matane, Quebec; art-image in Gatineau; DAIMON in Gatineau; Karsh Masson Gallery in Ottawa; InterAccess Media Arts Centre in Toronto; Artspace in Peterborough, PDCON Exhibition in Weimar/Berlin, Germany, ISSTA Conference in Maynooth, Ireland and IMOCA in Dublin, Ireland. Upcoming exhibitions include the Messaros gallery at the University of West Virginia, the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2015) and the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME15). Donna’s continuing practice is supported by residency opportunities, grants from The Ontario Arts Council and The Canada Council for the Arts.
Kiera O'Toole
As a mode of thinking and doing, drawing offers myself as artist as researcher, the possibility of gaining new knowledge through the materializing of the mark. From an intuitive process of mark making, my drawing practices supports a subjective dialogue of enquiry where drawing begins to draw itself. My practices explores a variety of drawing processes and methodologies including material investigation, the act of drawing, drawing as sculpture or 3D object and performance and drawing practices that also abuts other disciplines. All of which explore and contribute to the current discourse on drawing as research.
My practice includes social engagement and collaborative practices that work with and within communities particularly communities who experience social exclusion. I am interested in the notion of authorship and authenticity, which are problematic in both drawing and social engagement practices.
Kiera O’Toole is a visual artist who studied Fine Art at Dublin Institute of Technology graduating in 2000 and completed a MPhil (Fine Art) in Newcastle University, Australia in 2013. Exhibited in Ireland, Finland and Australia including National Museum of Australia in 2011 and obtained several artists in residencies (Drawing as Research: Betwixt and Between) with a current residency in Tinahely Courthouse Arts Centre (funded by Wicklow County Council). Presented at the 20th Australasian Conference for Irish Studies in University of NSW and Not just Ned: the true history of the Irish in Australia at the National Museum of Australia. Public collections in OPW and Lissadell House Art Collection in Ireland and the Maitland Regional Gallery and Mercure Hotels in Australia. Private collections Australia, UK, USA and Germany.
Past Residencies