Writing in the Gallery: home/land

“This second volume of Writing in the Gallery features students’ responses to Union Gallery’s Main Space exhibitions in 2024-25.

In Fall 2024, visiting artists Julia Rose Sutherland and Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet presented the lands refusal, an exhibition which borrows its name from the words of L.H. Stallings: “The land’s refusal to be separated from flesh.” Julia Rose, an artist of Mi’kmaq (Metepenagiag Nation) and settler descent, shared works of handmade paper and beaded hide, holding grief and kinship on and with the land. Kiona, an artist of Cree and Métis (descending from Michel Band) as well as Dutch and mixed European ancestry, shared paintings and a photo-based installation, honouring her moshom’s land and the stories it holds.

In Winter 2025, Queen’s graduate students Alicia Williamson, Baraa Abuzayed, Erin Rendell, Jared Augustin, and Kellyann Marie presented we carry each other, a cross-media exhibition of new artworks. Through this exhibition, the artists shared their stories and expressed their connectedness to the land, their notions of home, and their relationships to beloved ones.”

Featuring writing by Queen’s University graduate students Faten Nastas Mitwasi, Mark Wheeler, and Ella Taylor.

The print edition of this zine can be found at the gallery or purchased online through the UG shop.