Discover behind-the-scenes stories and images as five artists-in-residence discuss what they found researching the Gallery's archives.
Date/Time: Nov 14 2015, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Surrey, Surrey Art GalleryCost: Free
It’s far from drab and dusty! Find out what was revealed when local artists dug deep through hundreds of documents accumulated in the Surrey Art Gallery’s archives over the past 40 years. Each new discovery prompted new questions: What’s in your purse? Why did an art gallery offer helicopter rides? What are “Banana Olympics” and what do they have to do with art? Discover what Surrey artists uncovered in a year of digging through the Gallery's exhibition and education archives for year-long exhibition, Re:Source-A Living Archive 1975-2015. Join Jim Adams, Polly Gibbons, Cora Li-Leger, Haruko Okano, and Mandeep Wirk for a revelatory discussion on the art and artists that made the Surrey Art Gallery thrive over the past 40 years.
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