Andrew McLuhan & Noelle Hamlyn

2gallery presents Andrew McLuhan | written matter & Noelle Hamlyn | remembered and retold, a unique duo exhibition exploring how and why we communicate. About ourselves, to others. How seeing the every-day in a new way can inspire words – and how the written word can inspire new ways of seeing.

The simple act of looking can inspire images. Images inspire words. Words become books. Books can become art. Each medium another step in our desire to communicate to one another. We see. We write. We remember. We retell. We see anew.

Andrew McLuhan is an archivist, thinker, educator, writer and photographer. In 2020, during the height of pandemic lockdowns, he daily travelled the short distance between his home and office on the same property. A walk of no more than a minute. Afforded the time to see what surrounded him, Andrew captured a series of cell phone images – recording the everyday in a new way. Each photograph inspired a poem – thoughts and reflections on this time and his place in it. This collection of poetry and photography, written matter, was published by Revelore Press (Seattle) in early 2021. 2gallery (Prince Edward County), in conjunction with United Contemporary (Toronto), was inspired to create a gallery exhibition of Andrew’s work featuring letterpress poetry paired with fine art, photographic prints. Each pair, a window into inspiration and communication.

Andrew McLuhan is the director of the McLuhan Institute in Prince Edward County, and a global speaker on McLuhanism.

Noelle Hamlyn is an artist, designer and creator. She has an extraordinary ability to observe everyday objects that surround her – and reimagine them. A process that transforms memory and retells the stories withheld in those objects. Each becomes a work of art we could not see, or imagine, previously. Whether designing costumes for theatre and dance or contemplating the objects that generations of women used to create clothing, Noelle’s work insists we look at what surround us in a completely new way. We tasked Noelle to create a new series of book works inspired by the collected writings of Marshall McLuhan. To turn one medium into another. The result is an extraordinary exhibition of artwork created from, and inspired by, the written word.

Noelle Hamlyn lives and creates in Oakville ON, and is represented by 2gallery.

The exhibition is jointly produced by 2gallery and United Contemporary and opens on October 2 with a reception from 3-6PM and artists’ talk at 4:30PM. The exhibition runs until November 1. Covid-19 protocols in place. Masks required. Capacity 25 persons at a time.

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