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Past Exhibitions
Previously on Our Walls
Explore exhibitions previously on view at the Art Gallery of Northumberland.
Our past exhibitions tell the story of where we’ve been and the ideas we’ve explored along the way, from bold, thought-provoking installations to community-inspired showcases,
Each exhibition reflects a moment in time and the voices that shaped it. Together, they form a living archive—one that celebrates creativity, sparks reflection, and continues to inform the work we present today.
Out of the Enveloping Night
Sara Angelucci & Marie-Jeanne Musiol
What do we get from our families? As questions go, inheritance is a complicated one.
July 11-September 5, 2026.
In work that pulls its subject matter from the forests of southern Quebec, Ontario’s rapidly developing farmland, and gardens in Canada and Italy, Toronto-based artist Sara Angelucci and Gatineau-based artist Marie-Jeanne Musiol ask us to focus our attention on the profusion of plant life that surrounds us.
Main Gallery
Plants were Earth’s first life forms, evolving for hundreds of millions of years before any kind of animal life appeared. And yet, perhaps especially when we look at them through the lens of science, we have a habit of treating them as living objects rather than simply alive.
In electromagnetic photographs, direct scans, and video, Musiol and Angelucci combine artistic and scientific observation to consider our co-existence with the plant world. They invite us to contemplate the borders we’ve erected between plant and animal, life and death, living and inert matter; to imagine how a garden, an orchard, or a forest grows, lives, and dies out of the enveloping night.
Talking Heads: what a face can communicate long after a voice has disappeared
Guest Curator: Venus Nwaokoro
Talking Heads explores the sculptural bust beyond its traditional role as a commemorative object.
July 11-September 26, 2026.
Historically created to honour leaders, royalty, and notable figures, busts preserve a person's likeness long after their lifetime, reducing identity to its most recognizable feature: the face. This exhibition reconsiders that tradition by bringing together a collection of busts that represent both known and anonymous individuals, asking what it truly means to preserve a person. Is it their appearance, their character, or simply the memory of their existence?
Sculpture Gallery
Featuring works by Frances Gage, Emanuel Otto Hahn, and John Ivor Smith, Talking Heads invites visitors to consider how material, expression, and form shape our understanding of identity. Through sculptures in plaster, terracotta, wood, paint, and cement, the exhibition explores memory, craftsmanship, and the stories that remain long after a voice has disappeared. Installed in conversation with one another, these silent portraits encourage viewers to reflect on who is remembered, how we assign value, and what a sculpted face can still communicate across generations.
i thought long and hard about it, and this is what I came up with
Nerine Cavadias
What do we get from our families? As questions go, inheritance is a complicated one.
April 11-July 5, 2026.
I look like my mother; you look like your dad. My uncle and his grandson look nothing alike but put them together and they are they are each other’s mirrors: mannerisms and quirks perfectly repeated across time and generations.
Main Gallery
The complications of inheritance refract the images in Nerine Cavadias’s work, as she probes questions of legacy and identity, disability and mental health through the scattered moments and candid scenes of her family’s photo archive. In works conceived following a series of mental health diagnoses that shifted her understanding of herself, Cavadias intervenes in her family history, editing, adjusting, and layering her own images on top of ones taken by others to create new stories, new scenes. She brings the viewer with her as she thinks long and hard about what features tie her family together and threaten to pull it apart, features that she also carries forward, flaws and all.
Narrative and Nourishment
Selections from the Permanent Gallery
Featuring works drawn exclusively from the Art Gallery of Northumberland’s Permanent Collection.
January 10-July 4, 2026.
This exhibition explores how food in painting becomes a way to tell stories about identity, memory, and connection.
Permanent Gallery
Curator: Olinda Casimiro
The Art of Becoming
AGN Youth Council
A deep exploration of positive practice of mental health, expressed through the eyes of five passionate youth artists.
May 7-July 4, 2026.
Opening during Canadian Mental Health Week, this innovative mixed media exhibition invited you to think more deeply about your own mental health practices and the ways we all can take better care of our minds and bodies through intentional living.
Sculpture Gallery
Be inspired by the work of five young artists who use their art not only as a way to stay mentally healthy, but as a companion on their journey of Becoming.
Overskate
Morus Hummel
Working in mixed media, Hummel layers energetic lines and textured surfaces to create a scene that feels both spontaneous and deliberate.
January 10-April 25, 2026.
The work’s title hints at motion and imbalance, suggesting a moment caught between action and misstep-an everyday drama rendered with humour and humanity.
Sculpture Gallery
Hummel, known for his expressive drawings, paintings, and prints, consistently explored gesture as a way of understanding character. In Overskate, he transforms a simple movement into an imaginative narrative, revealing his instinct for turning the ordinary into something quietly theatrical. The result is a work that captures Hummel’s distinct blend of wit, warmth, and keen observational insight.