A Manual for Ordinary Things
Amelia Butcher & Mahsa Farzi
February 26th - March 14th
Visual Space Gallery
3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver
A Manual for Ordinary Things brings together two artists exploring material storytelling across sculpture, drawing, and object-based practices. Farzi’s work engages transformation, myth, and the feminine body through humor, while Butcher’s ink drawings on mineral paper and illustrated ceramic vessels tug at ideas of perception, femininity and vesselness.
Amelia Butcher & Mahsa Farzi
February 26th - March 14th
Visual Space Gallery
3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver
A Manual for Ordinary Things brings together two artists exploring material storytelling across sculpture, drawing, and object-based practices. Farzi’s work engages transformation, myth, and the feminine body through humor, while Butcher’s ink drawings on mineral paper and illustrated ceramic vessels tug at ideas of perception, femininity and vesselness.
Exhibition Opening
Friday, September 19
7pm I Welcome Ceremony
This Special Exhibition Opening will take place during the evening of Friday, September 19, 6pm - 8pm with light refreshments served
Opening on September 19, 2025, From the Ground explores the interconnectedness of the natural world and our reciprocal relationship with the ecosystems in which we are embedded - expanding our awareness of both the visible and invisible in our environments and broadening our sense of time. The exhibition is rooted in principles of connectedness, reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place.
Curated by Holly Schmidt and Amelia Epp, From the Ground brings together drawings, sculptures, prints, and photographs representing the natural world through stories, materials, time, and natural processes. Works by contemporary Canadian artists Amelia Butcher, Xinwei Che, and Genevieve Robertson are shown alongside selections from the Artists for Kids and the Gordon Smith Gallery’s Permanent Collection which include, Lauren Brevner, James Nexw’Kalus-Xwalacktun Harry, Karin Bubaš, Edward Burtynsky, Anna Binta Diallo, Gordon Smith, Charlene Vickers, Toni Onley, and Victor Cicansky.
Artists for Kids' 2025 Fall Portfolio, featuring works from Lauren Brevner, James Nexw’Kalus-Xwalacktun Harry, Jack Shadbolt and Ann Kipling, will be released for view and acquisition on Friday, September 19th at 12pm. More information on the limited edition release, can be found on the Artists for Kids' website
Friday, September 19
7pm I Welcome Ceremony
This Special Exhibition Opening will take place during the evening of Friday, September 19, 6pm - 8pm with light refreshments served
Opening on September 19, 2025, From the Ground explores the interconnectedness of the natural world and our reciprocal relationship with the ecosystems in which we are embedded - expanding our awareness of both the visible and invisible in our environments and broadening our sense of time. The exhibition is rooted in principles of connectedness, reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place.
Curated by Holly Schmidt and Amelia Epp, From the Ground brings together drawings, sculptures, prints, and photographs representing the natural world through stories, materials, time, and natural processes. Works by contemporary Canadian artists Amelia Butcher, Xinwei Che, and Genevieve Robertson are shown alongside selections from the Artists for Kids and the Gordon Smith Gallery’s Permanent Collection which include, Lauren Brevner, James Nexw’Kalus-Xwalacktun Harry, Karin Bubaš, Edward Burtynsky, Anna Binta Diallo, Gordon Smith, Charlene Vickers, Toni Onley, and Victor Cicansky.
Artists for Kids' 2025 Fall Portfolio, featuring works from Lauren Brevner, James Nexw’Kalus-Xwalacktun Harry, Jack Shadbolt and Ann Kipling, will be released for view and acquisition on Friday, September 19th at 12pm. More information on the limited edition release, can be found on the Artists for Kids' website
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The 6th annual Soda Pop-Up will be happening again in Tony's yard, 517 Eighth Ave in New Westminster. All the usual suspects, treats from Subo Bakes, a nice end-of-summer ritual. Please come say hello and tell me your bug stories |
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A shared curiosity about the vital spark connects new work by artists Saskia Jetten and Amelia Butcher. Jetten’s hand-printed paper puppets are inspired by the theatre principle for actors to fill the character to its fullest. Butcher’s ceramic objects query boundaries between sculpture, function, science and art. in-animate April 10 to 26, 2025 Noon to 5 pm Tuesday to Saturday Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12, 2 to 4 pm. https://www.visualspace.ca/ |
I'm very excited to be joining the Eastside Culture Crawl for the first time. Come visit me November 14-17 at the Mergatroid Building (975 Vernon Drive) in Studio 255 with the inexorable Meg Ida.
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Soda Pop Up (5th year running!)
517 8th Ave, New Westminster, September 7th/8th
I have some new pots to share aaaaand Subo Bakes is joining us too so leave room for dessert.
517 8th Ave, New Westminster, September 7th/8th
I have some new pots to share aaaaand Subo Bakes is joining us too so leave room for dessert.
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Soda Pop Up
517 8th Ave, New Westminster, September 9th 2-7pm
4th annual! Come hang out in Tony's yard. Chrystal is making cookies... I have a couple new pots & seconds table.
517 8th Ave, New Westminster, September 9th 2-7pm
4th annual! Come hang out in Tony's yard. Chrystal is making cookies... I have a couple new pots & seconds table.
Carrying Stories: Group Show at Visual Space Gallery
3352 Dunbar St, Vancouver, August 17-September 9th
Tuesday to Saturday 12-5. Opening reception Saturday the 19th from 2-4 pm
Saskia Jetten, kelly haydon, Amelia Butcher
Inquiries: https://www.visualspace.ca/contact
My latest ceramic work is a collection of illustrated, narrative vessels finished through an atmospheric firing process. After two years of serious personal griefs and joys, losing a parent and becoming one myself, I’m thinking about vesselness, about transformation, cell division, geology and electricity and fire; thinking about the volcanic “year without a summer” when a pregnant 18-year-old Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. I’m making objects that are self-conscious of their own act of making, of the Promethean responsibility of the maker, vessels that capture moments of transfiguration and tell stories about science, family, animal, vegetable and mineral.