Galerie SAW Gallery:
* promotes contemporary Canadian and international artists, emerging and established, from diverse cultural backgrounds.
* presents a contemporary art program with a strong focus on Canadian performance and media art, with bilingual interpretative material produced for each exhibition.
* adapts to the changing nature of the contemporary arts by maintaining an evolving interdisciplinary presentation space comprised of SAW Gallery, Club SAW and the SAW outdoor courtyard.
gallerygachet is a unique artistic organization founded in Vancouver in 1994.
Named after Vincent Van Gogh's homeopathic doctor, Paul Gachet, the Gallery is both a place of healing and a centre of artistic excellence.
gallerygachet is a focal point for dialogue amongst outsider/dissident artists. Using the canvas of the outside world we educate and demystify the public on mental health and advance the artistic discourse therein.
Grant Poier is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Calgary since the mid seventies. He grew up in Saskatchewan and graduated from the Alberta College of Art (& Design) in 1980. His individual art practice includes installation and performance art, video, photography, text and assemblage. Since 1987 he has participated in collaborative art projects in Calgary and in Europe--notably, with The NOMADS, invited to exhibit and perform at documenta 8 in Kassel, Germany, 1987, and at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics Arts Festival.
Artistic Director - Sarah Joy Stoker
Gutsink Productions Inc. promotes and produces contemporary art, mainly in the form of live interdisciplinary performance. Dance, music, video and installation work are the company’s media; the idea that art is an active force in life and therefore a vehicle for action in our communities is its message.
For nearly 20 years I have studied the question of the individual: in 1985 I was already painting portraits of homeless people and pictures rooted in social criticism.
