The Broken Forest Eco-Artist Group and interested invited Artists will participate in a 10-day artistic residency in the last weeks of August, 2025. This residency focuses on discussion and processes without the pressure of completing specific works for exhibition during the residency. The aim would be to explore our art, ideals, and notions around activism,…
Baekdudaegun to Boreal Project, 2025
Baekdudaegun to Boreal – Canada-Korea Eco-Art Installation Exchange Project The Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective (North Bay, Ontario, Canada) and the Yatoo Collective in South Korea are sending three BF Eco-Artists Group artists from Canada to forest sites in Korea starting May 10th, 2025. The Canadian artists (Dermot Wilson, Don Chretien and Ernest Daetwyler) will create…
Clearcut Reanimated OPENS near Victoria BC
Clearcut Reanimated is a site-specific art installation and performance series presented by the Broken Forests Eco-Artists Group on a woodlot above Jordan River, B.C. From August 19 – August 26, 2024. The artists participating, i.e. Dermot Wilson, Norma Vieira, Paul Walde, Tasha Lavdovsky, Gwen MacGregor, Johannes Zits, Quan Steele and Ernest Daetwyler, would like to…
Standing UP for the White Bear Old Growth….. Residency – June, 2024
Some shots from the recent White Bear AIR project in Temagami. NRCC is supporting several residency projects this year in this beautiful forest. These shots are from a Residency in June that included members of the Ontario Society of Artists who have concerns around the ecology.
Wild Alchemy OPENS THURSDAY
Heading down to ASSEMBLY HALL GALLERY to INSTALL a new iteration of Wild Alchemy and the Global Grove! The show features 29 artists from 5 different countries. All of the works are tapping into the magic and spiritual resonance of the forests that nurture us. This is a “Gallery Project” created by the Broken Forests…
Wild Alchemy and the Global Grove NEWS!!!
Tour Itinerary For WILD ALCHEMY Wild Alchemy and the Global Grove – Artists from across the province and other countries create installations and exhibit artworks in the Assembly Hall Gallery in Etobicoke, Ontario. Originally curated in 2023, this Broken Forests group installation includes works from: Germany, Brazil, Colombia, British Columbia, Northern Ontario, Poland, Bulgaria and…
Deforestation/Disruption Research Trip
Otherwise known by our intrepid crew of Eco-Artists as the Broken Forests West Recon Trip, for this event a contingent of Eco-Artists from Ontario traveled to Vancouver Island to meet BF Eco-Artists Group members there and to plan out (with galleries and groups in Victoria) our NEXT Eco-Arts Action and Intervention, which we are calling:…
Broken Forests Brazil – July 20 – August 10, 2023
Contingents of Broken Forests Artists from: Italy, Canada, Colombia and (of course) Brazil attending this AMAZING Eco-Cultural exchange event. We traveled from Campinas, São Paulo to Paranapiacaba in the Serro do Mar mountains to explore the indigenous rain forests there and to create site-specific installations and performances. The Group also visited the Jaguaraguava River area,…
Escarpment Erasure – Broken Forests Eco-Artists’ Intervention
A Mega-Horn Spiral…Through this magical musical instrument we could sing to the forest AND listen carefully to what the branches were saying. They were demanding that we CEASE the DEVELOPMENT and DESTRUCTION of their community, of the organism of this forest on the rim of the Niagara Escarpment! The exhibition included new works by: Nicola…