Public Art at the Newmarket Old Town Hall
Yorkregion.com
August 9, 2019
Who: Canadian multi-disciplinary artist Ted Fullerton, Logan Bales Curator and Gallery Coordinator
What: First public art display at the Newly renovated Newmarket Old Town Hall (cultural centre complete with art gallery and theatre). Art exhibit by Ted Fullerton in the gallery featuring never before exhibited paintings and more large scale sculptures.
Where: Newmarket Old Town Hall, 460 Botsford Street
When: Public art on display now until Sept 14, art exhibition on view from Aug 14th to Sept 14th, opening reception is on Tuesday August 13th from 7-9 p.m. be the first to see the entire exhibit!
Why: Newmarket Old Town Hall offers various art exhibits year round that are diverse, informative, and feature a roster of artists from emerging to established careers. It is important for York Region to foster a supportive and strong foundation for arts and culture to contribute to a sense of belonging, self expression, and learning.
The public art helps generate this by providing uniqueness to communities/municipalites/wards, provide meaning to our civic spaces, promotes social and cultural conversations, creates communication to residents, brings communities together, and sometimes acts as a notable landmark driving tourism.
Ted Fullerton has his sculptures at various institutions (City of Barrie, City of Guelph, and City of Waterloo, hospitals, private commissions, etc) and his work is held in many private collections and art galleries.
Detailed info:
Public Art
Newmarket Old Town Hall's first public art display is on now until September 14th, 2019!
As preview to the upcoming art exhibit by Canadian award winning artist Ted Fullerton, the Newmarket Old Town Hall will feature select public sculptures on view to showcase what is to come in August. The full exhibit, Ted Fullerton: Figure in a Landscape, will take place in the Serpa Galleries and will run from August 14th to September 14th, 2019. Be one of the first to see the entire exhibit, including never before exhibited paintings, at the opening reception on Tuesday August 13th from 7-9 p.m.
Sculpture titles: Horizon, (Place)ment, and (M)other (each have their own meaning and concept, more info can be provided)
Art Exhibition
Ted Fullerton: Figure in a Landscape | August 14 to September 14 | newmarket.ca/OldTownHall
On exhibit for the first time are selected oil paintings on board from his Figure in a Landscape (2013-2014) series. The body of works collectively challenge our inclination to designate nature as “other” from humanity, and instead, explores the idea of humanity as “other” from nature. In addition to the paintings, various large scale figurative sculptures are placed inside the gallery and around the exterior of the Newmarket Old Town Hall. Influenced by the concept of Axis Mundi, Fullerton’s sculptures allude to the point of intersection where nature and human nature merge. Together, both paintings and sculpture underline the perplexities of our own existence and cultivate themes of separation and unification, displacement and coexistence, and “otherness”.
Artist Talk and Opening Reception
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 | 7 -- 9 p.m.
Fullerton -- with an illustrated presentation - will share his thoughts on his artistic process as a multi-disciplinary artist, and elaborate on works currently on view in Ted Fullerton: A Figure in Landscape. He will also touch on his relationship with his mentor and long-time Newmarket resident, artist Frederick Hagan (1918- 2003). The evening will conclude with the Opening Reception where there is an opportunity to interact with Ted Fullerton in a casual setting.
Extra Information:
Ted Fullerton is a Canadian artist who works in painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture and has achieved awards in all four media. As a figurative artist his work is symbolic in nature. The conceptual foundation and ideology within his artistic practise is humanist in nature emphasising the notion of belief, purpose and relationships: being and becoming. His work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous private and public collections. He has participated in over 55 solo exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions. He was awarded, Excellence in the Arts by the City of Barrie in 2010, the Georgian College Board of Governors Award of Excellence in 2012 and has been a member of the Royal Canadian Academy since 2009. He has been commissioned for a number of public sculpture commissions - the City of Guelph and the City of Kitchener - and most recently for St. Albert - Alberta, Manitoulin Island and the City of Waterloo. The Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton have recently acquired and installed a large permanent sculpture. As an educator, he was professor and head of the Fine Art Program at Georgian College, School of Design and Visual Art from 1978-2013. He has also been active as a curator, where he has focused on artist’s work or collections that have caught his interest.
