THE IRIS GROUP

IRIS

The Iris Group is a collective of women artists, began in 1996 as a forum to share ideas, offer mutual support, and develop projects that further the overall intentions of the group. Based in Durham Region, IRIS has exhibited work and mounted outreach projects in galleries and on campuses in Ontario, Alberta, New York State and Mexico. IRIS is a member of CARFAC Ontario.

Visit them at their website at www.theirisgroup.ca


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Durham Reach, Corset-Kayak by Sally Thurlow, photograph by Laura Hair (2017)

IRIS

EXHIBITIONS

2020 – Our Sense of Place, ONLINE: ZOOM and on our website

2017 – Iris Group members in Durham Reach, Robert McLaughlin Gallery

             Women in Art Projects/CWSE Gallery, OISE, Toronto

2016 – Iris at 20, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

2015 – Filmic, The Station Gallery, Whitby

2014 – WhiteOut – Iris and Friends, Arts Council Gallery, Nuit Blanche, Toronto

             Oshawa Space Invaders, Downtown Oshawa

2013 – Oshawa Space Invaders, Downtown Oshawa

2012 – Iris@Bola, Downtown Oshawa

2010 – Iris in the Adirondacks, BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake, NY

             The Fiction Project, Art House, Brooklyn Art Library, NY

2009 – Fluid II, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden, ON

              Edge, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto

              Deviant Detours, The Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

2008 – Insomnia, The Red Head Gallery, Nuit Blanche, Toronto

2007 – Fluid, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville

2005 – Baghdad Museum, Propeller Gallery, Toronto

2004 – Baghdad Museum, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville

              Baghdad Museum, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville

2000 – Memory & Nature, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, ON

FORMER MEMBERS

Marjatta Beasley

Maralynn Cherry

Rowena Dykins

Ruth Latimer

Merike Lugus

Helen MacDonald

Holly McClellan

Judy Metcalf

Eva Mustapha

Ruth Read

Kim Stallworthy


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