GARDEN
DISPATCHES
Tonia Di Risio, Soheila Esfahani, & Sally Thurlow
Garden Dispatches reports on the state of springtime 2021 gardening activities of Red Head members Soheila, Sally, and Tonia. During the pandemic spring of 2021, the artists virtually met in their respective gardens located in Waterloo, Whitby, and Oakville to talk about the current state of the growing season and what was inspiring them to cook, steep, and bake; sharing their recipes and stories to inspire you.
RECIPES
Recipe cards are also available for purchase at the gallery.
The Red Head Gallery would like to thank Catherine Lathwell from The Roastery Coffee House for her support in featuring our recipes on their menu for the month of September 2021.
COLLABORATORS
Soheila Esfahani grew up in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Canada in 1992. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo. She is an award-winning visual artist and recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. She is a recipient of the 2016 Waterloo Region Arts Awards and was nominated for the Jameel Prize at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, UK in 2015. Her work has been exhibited across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax and collected by various public and private institutions, including the Canada Council’s Art Bank. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Western University and is a member of the Red Head Gallery in Toronto.
Tonia Di Risio is a multimedia artist living and working in Southern Ontario, she received a BA in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College and an MFA from the University of Windsor. She has exhibited across Canada and has been the recipient of Canada Council and Nova Scotia arts grants. She is also collaborating with an Artist Residency called Alchemy.
Sally Thurlow has been living for years by the shores of Lake Ontario, east of Toronto. This location informs her multi-disciplinary practice based in sculpture, installation, photography and painting. It invites the examination of how cultural and environmental issues collide and impact our communities shaping the future.
Her work has been shown in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Thurlow received a BA majoring in Fine Arts from the University of Toronto, took Cultural and Environmental Studies at Trent University, with earlier studies at OCAD and George Brown College. She has been the recipient of various Ontario Arts Council Awards and has given numerous artist talks and workshops at educational institutions and public galleries. She is a member of The Iris Group and The Red Head Gallery art collective. Her work is held in private collections across Canada, and at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario.
This project was made possible with the generous support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
