Trinity Art Gallery

Owned and operated by the City of Ottawa, the Trinity Art Gallery features the works of local and regional artists in two exhibition salons. Artists are selected through an annual peer assessment process. For submission information go to ottawa.ca. Trinity Art Gallery Salons A and B are located on the Lower Level of the Shenkman Arts Centre.

Salon A and B

a mixed media contemporary piece with the outline of a female figure overlapped with black and white images on a background composed of various shades of green and a colourful abstract oil painting which has an embedded female figure

Sabrine Trabelsi - Femmes en résonance

October 8 to November 11

Opening: Thursday, October 8, 5:30 to 7:30 pm

This exhibition brings together a large-scale participatory installation with a recent series of related paintings, proposing a concept of home as an intangible collection of repeated activities and memories that is carried with us. It draws inspiration from the mathematics of spirals and infinity, colour theory and geometric abstraction.

Femmes en résonance explores the sensitivity and strength of the feminine through compositions where vibrant colors and arabesque forms intertwine. Blending abstraction and figuration, each painting becomes a space of emotion and memory, celebrating women as free, creative, and ever-evolving beings. Sabrine Trabelsi was born in Tunis in 1979 and holds a BFA from the School of Fine Arts of Tunis. Her hybrid painting, blending surrealism and symbolism, orchestrates characters charged with emotion and geometric arabesques to challenge conventions. Multi-award-winning, she has works held in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Tunisia.

Images: Sabrine Trabelsi, passion patiente, oil and collage on canvas, 100 x 81 cm, courtesy of the artist. Sabrine Trabelsi, Au grès du temps, oil on canvas, 110 x 65 cm, courtesy of the artist.

three separate art pieces hung together with a circular watercolour in the top centre of a nature scene; the other two images connect to the watercolour using both print and photo development techniques, including soil chromatography

Susan Robertson-Baranick and David Bigg - McCarthy Woods Portraits

July 23 to September 1

Opening: Thursday, July 23, 5:30 to 7:30 pm

McCarthy Woods, part of Ottawa’s Poets’ Pathway, is an environmentally and politically endangered site. Grouped artworks of 15 sites created as an environmentally friendly collaboration with the site itself illustrate themes of change, decay, persistence and renewal. The hope is to foster an appreciation of urban greenspace value, fragility, and human impact versus stewardship.

David Bigg is an Ottawa-based artist who works across many materials and mediums to explore how place and objects shape the way we see the world. He has shown work at galleries in Ottawa and Peterborough, won several awards, and teaches art to kids and community learners. Susan Robertson-Baranick (BSc, MD, FRCP(C), BA (art history/ psych) a retired pathologist with a BFA (2023) has an art practice including nature based alternative photography enhanced by foraged botanical specimens, the soil they grow in, and the pigments they provide.

Image: Susan Robertson-Baranick and David Bigg, Entry Site 1, Watercolour (foraged pigments/soymilk binder) on wood panel, 30.48 cm diameter, Duotone Cyanotype print with soil chromatography overlay, on cotton paper, 30.48 x 30.48 cm mounted on wood panel, Double exposure Cyanotype, photo print with photogram overlay, on cotton paper, 30.48 x 30.48 cm mounted on wood panel, courtesy of the artist

Resident Arts Partners