Eco Illuminescence: A Sensory CrossingUPDATE June 21, 2025Ann will be having an improvised finale performance. This will take place on Sunday June 22, starting around 3:00 pm (soft-start). Ann brings the sunshine with her multimedia-multisensory immersive experience, where traditional sumi-e paintings, sculptural lanterns, upcycled objects, and fabric forms converge with the artist's improvised actions. Through... Continue Reading →
Erik Volet
Bacchantes: The Celebrants May 3-18, 2025 Summer knocks on our doors with celebration. Volet operates between modes of perception, travelling into the collective-unconscious retrieving symbols from mythic space, returning to give form to these discoveries. His paintings construct scenarios with figures from disparate times, animals, hybrid creatures, fantastical flora, and transitory architecture. The work explores... Continue Reading →
Barry Herring
Seeing Time Pop Up: Friday April 25, 6-8 pm Opening A photograph is more than a static image. It is a slice of life, pulled from the stream of time, held still for us to study and reflect upon. When we consider the element of time within a photograph, when we look beyond the surface... Continue Reading →
Franรงois Michaud
Rising Water and Migration April 4 to 20, 2025 Spring is in the air with Michaud's colourful imagery draws inspiration from the natural world around us with the aim of provoking a dialogue on environmental issues. These artworks form an allegorical representation where animals act as metaphors and elements come together in vibrant colors to... Continue Reading →
Derk Wolmuth
EMBROIL March 7 to 23, 2025 Moving into the longer days of spring, with still a titch of winter, Wolmuth, using sculptural installations, reflects upon the instability and rise of nativism, and the ordering of matter through beliefs. Domestic objects are transfigured as mute utterances to these โinteresting timesโ. His sculptures are crafted with a focused... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Deadline extended! Calling all artists from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands
Deadline extension alert! You now have until March 10, 2025 to submit your proposals, so mark your calendars! We're thrilled to invite you to submit your proposals for Xchanges' upcoming exhibition season, running from September 2025 to June 2026. We're on the lookout for a diverse range of visual arts mediums and are especially excited... Continue Reading →
April Winter
"I, Vanitas" February 8 to 23, 2025 As we start to move out of the doldrum darkness of winter, our February exhibition features the vibrant works of April Winter. In I, Vanitas, Winter asks questions about life and death, wealth and poverty, and the significance of any given moment. Large scale photographic still life and... Continue Reading →
Call to artists: We are now accepting proposals for our 2024-25 exhibition series
Artists and curators from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are invited to submit proposals for Xchangesโ exhibition season running from September 2024 to June 2025. The deadline to submit is February 18, 2024 and decisions will be made by the middle of March 2024. We encourages a range of visual arts mediums and the... Continue Reading →
Maryam Tavakoli
Like a Circle in Spiral November 4 - 20, 2022 Xchanges Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening on November 4, 2022 of Maryam Tavakoli's solo exhibition, Like a Circle in Spiral. In Like a Circle in Spiral, Maryam Tavakoli attempts to re-interpret the Identity-Memory relationship. While memories are often thought of as flashbacks to... Continue Reading →
