Michael Belmore

Michael Belmore: Long before the Dutch coined the term Landscape, and European artists discovered Wilderness, Canada’s First Peoples have celebrated and had a living connection to the land. Contemporary Canadian Artist and environmentalist, Michael Belmore in his work addresses multiple issues from cultural tradition and identity to a growing urban societies' relationship to the land.

Noel Harding

Noel Harding is an international Canadian artist and urban innovator recognized for his monumental scale public art projects and environmental sculptures. Harding's work has been shown in more than 200 exhibitions, nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario where his work is archived in their permanent collections.

Lam Laam Jaffa

    Jaffa Laam Lam is a well-known Hong Kong sculptor, and lecturer at The Art School of The Hong Kong Arts Centre. Lam's work is an exercise in breaking away from conventional ways of looking at and thinking about the visual arts. In her work she frequently weaves together the ideas and images of very different cultures juxtaposing two unlike realities to form an unexpected new reality.

E. J. Lightman

E. J. Lightman is an artist based in Toronto. E.J. Lightman is the founding member of The Tree Museum (1997) and co-curator  and organizer of the site-specific outdoor installations at The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst, Ont.

Persona Volare

Persona Volare is a collective of eleven Toronto-based artists dedicated to the exploration of non museum sites, especially those sites that have a special symbolic charge. While their media is diverse - sculpture, photography, painting, video and new media - their single intention is to invade and transform unlikely spaces.

Wen-Chih Wang

Wen-Chih Wang: Concerning his work, Wang has stated, The inspirations of my work lie in the opposing yet fusing relationships between individual, nature, and communities, and the longing for communion and primitivism derived from meditation.

Writers

Accompanying the 2007 exhibition is a catalogue, which contains essays by Margaret Rodgers, Gil McElroy and Ivan Jurakic. These essays amplify some of the circumstances and issues addressed by the artists in their work, and add to the ongoing dialogue between culture and nature. This is
the sixth catalogue designed by J. Lynn Campbell.