WETLAND HAIKUS
Margie Kelk & Peggy Taylor Reid
Wetland Haikus shows Microscopic life hidden within ponds and wetlands that appear in fleeting moments documented in captivating videos taken by Peggy Taylor Reid with Foldscope. Margie Kelk creates imaginary life forms that swim in and out of the underwater universe shown in Peggy’s videos. The videos set the stage for Kelk’s drawings which convert Reid’s almost mystical view of pond life into a magical theatre of colour and movement. Bird song and the calls of tree frogs and spring peepers add background music to the imagery. Wetland Haikus become a colourful ode to the hidden life within elements of the natural world that all too often escape our notice.
COLLABORATORS
Margie Kelk takes an experimental approach to reconstruct visual fragments of ideas through diverse media such as ceramic sculpture, drawing, oil painting and animation. Her recent solo exhibitions include ‘In: FLUX’ at the Red Head Gallery (2020) and ‘reference:gesture’ (2017) at reference:contemporary, Toronto, Ontario. Kelk's animated films, ‘Substratae’ and ‘UnderSee’, have been featured in film festivals throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
With support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, as part of their Resilient Communities Fund, we currently upgrading our space in accordance with public health guidelines to continue delivering our program safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Peggy Taylor Reid has exhibited her work throughout North America where she has also participated in residencies and can be found in public and private collections. She received the N.Y. Photo Curator award for her series ‘(re)pair’, the Director’s award for the work ‘Strength’ from the A Smith Gallery in Texas, and 2 honourable mentions for the 12th Julia Cameron Awards in Self-portrait and Digital Manipulation and Collage. She was a featured photographer in Light Journal 05 and her work has been published in The HAND magazine and Prefix photo.
She holds a BFA from the University of Ottawa and is a long-time member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. She is currently a member of the Red Head Gallery collective where she also formerly co-chaired. Taylor Reid currently lives and works in Caledon Ontario and is represented by Lonsdale Gallery in Toronto.
With support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, as part of their Resilient Communities Fund, we currently upgrading our space in accordance with public health guidelines to continue delivering our program safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This project was made possible with the generous support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
