This gallery is currently closed until further notice to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Owned and operated by the City of Ottawa, the Trinity Art Gallery features the works of local and regional artists in two exhibition salons. Artists are selected through an annual peer assessment process.
February 4 to March 2, 2021
A group show of large scale contemporary abstract paintings from different artists, each with their own unique artistic style and cultural background. These works will tantalise the viewer with their richness and creative diversity.
March 5 to April 12, 2021
The Arteast Juried Awards Exhibition (AJAE) is an annual juried exhibition for two- and three-dimensional artworks, with awards provided in each medium. This event showcases the wide diversity of outstanding work and talent of Arteast members.
“Handwritten” is a collection of tools and materials required for the almost extinct act of handwriting. Each sculpture is created of glass as a tribute to the rich history of the handwritten information our culture has relied on.
April 15 to May 18
Sugar is known to stimulate the feel-good chemicals in the brain. To echo the feeling, this collection is depicted in rich, vibrant colours. Its subjects include natural sources of sugar, carefully crafted man-made treats and figurative interpretations of the sugar rush.
May 20 to June 15
This exhibition is a meditation on place through photography and poetry. The poems and photos speak to one another in a language that is timeless, lucid and precise, revealing the wisdom and peace gained from the simple act of being still and looking closely at what surrounds us.
June 17 to July 20
Here, the concourse of a train station, where ordinary people rub shoulders with one another, travelling for now inside themselves, their thoughts elsewhere, some wandering, some resting. There, in the background, turned away at the borders, are those for whom the destination and destiny are interwoven.
July 22 to August 24
I heard about climate change 25 years ago. Along with many other artists, architects, designers and filmmakers of that time, I set out to spread awareness and make things right. This exhibition is an acknowledgement of our influence...a moody celebration of failure.
August 26 to September 21
The Arteast Juried Awards Exhibition is an annual juried exhibition for two- and three-dimensional artworks, with awards provided in each medium. This event showcases the wide diversity of outstanding work and talent of Arteast members.
September 23 to October 19
Creatures of habit, humour and opportunity. Beings of fragility, strength and beauty. Spirits of music, myth and magic. Decendants of dinosaurs. This is the nature of birds.
October 21 to November 23, 2021
This gallery is currently closed until further notice to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Owned and operated by the City of Ottawa, the Trinity Art Gallery features the works of local and regional artists in two exhibition salons. Artists are selected through an annual peer assessment process.
Depicting ordinary people and things makes us all art lovers. We use lines to portray, and colour to express, the beautiful things in our hearts and the people around us. Art created in this manner often brings us pleasant surprises.
February 4 to March 2
The Arteast Juried Awards Exhibition is an annual juried exhibition for two- and three-dimensional artworks, with awards provided in each medium. This event showcases the wide diversity of outstanding work and talent of Arteast members.
March 5 to April 12
Diane Smith and Margie Puckering’s expressions of the female self living with dis-ease reveals their intuitive and playful approach to art. Their use of mediums and materials inspired their creative processes as much as their epiphanies inspired each other’s evolution as artists.
April 15 to May 18
As wind bends the grass, and waves dance on the beach, we see and feel movement in nature. Come explore our world seen through the lens of photographer Karen Bell, using the Intentional Camera Movement technique, as she exhibits impressions left on us by light and colour.
May 20 to June 15
Colour in Conversation is an exhibition to tell a story with colours as the narrators and canvas their prompt. Piece by piece a story unfolds—abstracted by form, colour and texture—to expose and reflect upon our lives.
June 17 to July 20
Twenty-three pieces that explore my interest in giving a voice to those species - their echoes, reflections and shadows - impacted by climate change. At which moment do our thoughts take form, and when do we get lost in them?
July 22 to August 24
The natural art materials I create with local plants and minerals communicate meanings to me beyond their substance. My work exploits their time-sensitive properties to allude to transient human experiences of integration and disintegration, loss and recuperation, freedom and restraint.
August 26 to September 21
“Mosaic” is Arteast Ottawa’s major annual juried exhibition for two- and three-dimensional art works. This prominent event showcases the richness of the artistic talent of Arteast members.
September 23 to October 19
This series examines the prevailing narratives of economic growth, fuelled by the cycle of mass production and consumption, in the context of the Anthropocene, and the impact they have on our relations with each other and with nature.
October 21 to November 23
Kate’s introverted nature strongly influences her perspective on society and what she chooses to paint. In this series, Kate utilizes the artistic tool of perspective to lead the eye of the viewer to various viewpoints of the world she records.
November 25, 2021 to January 4, 2022
Monday to Sunday
