DATES OF SHOW: October 16, 2025, to November 22, 2025
PLACE: The Parrott Gallery, 254 Pinnacle St, Belleville, ON
TITLE: PERSPECTIVES
THEME: Artist’s Choice
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, October 3, 2025
ENTRY FEE: 2 registered works in any medium for $35.00. Non-refundable
Payment can be made by cheque to Belleville Art Association or cash/debit/credit at the gallery or by e-transfer to bellevilleaa3@gmail.com. Note: this email requires a security question. Please make sure Dona Knudsen knows the answer.
SUBMISSION OF ARTWORK:
Wednesday, October 8, 2025: 10 – noon
The intake will take place in the middle gallery on the third floor. A member will greet you at the gallery door to assist with registration. Please read the conditions of entry carefully to avoid disappointment.
PICK UP & CRITIQUES OF ARTWORK:
Pick up: Thursday, October 9, 2025: 2 – 4:00 pm
Critiques: 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Starting at 12:30 on Thursday, you will be contacted if your work is not chosen for the show. You must pick up your artwork between 2-4 pm. If you wish a critique, please come during the allotted time, 2 -3:30. Critiques will be no longer than 10 minutes and can be provided for both works accepted into the show and those not selected. If you are unable to pick up the work at this time, please arrange for someone else to pick it up for you.
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday, October 16, 2025: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
The award ceremony will start at 6:30, and guests of honour and donors will present the awards. Refreshments will be served. Please invite your friends and family to feast their eyes and have a bite!
PICKUP OF ALL ARTWORK:
Monday, November 24, 2025: 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
All work in the show must be picked up at this time. If you are not able to come, please send someone in your place, as we cannot leave any artwork at the Parrott Gallery.
NOTE: The Parrott Gallery board holds the right to photograph and own any such photographs of the work exhibited, and to reproduce them for catalogues and/or promotions of the Gallery.
CONTACT: Dona Knudsen or Susan Clark
ELAYNE WINDSOR
Elayne Windsor is a multi award winning collage artist from the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. Elayne studied Art, and Art history, at the University of Guelph, but claims to have received an unconventional, extensive and inspiring art education while teaching primary school students for 30 years. She is now rounding out her education teaching art in local retirement homes and community living settings.
Outside of her studio, Elayne is the Meeting chair for the “Kawartha Arts Network”, the New Membership chair for the “Colour and Form Society” and a member of the “Ontario Society of Artists”.
Elayne has had multiple solo shows in Canada and participated in shows in the United States. Her work can be found in collections across the Canada, the US and Mexico. She completed commissioned work for the ReFrame film festival, the Peterborough New Canadian Centre and the Land Conservancy of Niagara.
Elayne works in both collage and decollage. Her work is both experimental and conceptual. While exploring the possibilities of paper as a medium, her work responds to the political, ecological and social issues of our times.
FRANCES FERDINANDS
Born in Colombo Sri Lanka, Ferdinands holds a Honours B.F.A. (York University), an A.R.C.T. (Piano), and B.ED ( University of Toronto).
Ferdinands is largely based in Toronto and has exhibited for 4 decades in such art centres as New York, London, Honolulu, Paris, Bogota, and across Canada. Her numerous solo exhibitions span collective, commercial and public galleries. She has delivered many painting workshops, lectures and courses to Arts Groups, Universities and Colleges, notably OCAD and Humber College.
Her paintings are held in Corporate and Museum collections including the ROM. She was commissioned by the Royal Canadian Mint to create the 2019 Multi-Cultural Gold Coin celebrating “light and diversity.”
In 2015/ 2017 she returned to her homeland to study traditional arts and crafts that were culturally at risk. This enriched her understanding of her heritage and spawned new directions resulting in a purchase of 10 works by the ROM. A Chalmers Grant ( 2019) to study Islamic Patterning in London further expanded her repertoire.
“Decoration” provides the underpinnings of many non-Western cultures and is still vital and relevant. Rooted in this perspective, her paintings are are a mix of objects, nature imagery, patterning and ornamentation. They create connections, intersections and migrations of various cultural visual languages between South Asian, Middle Eastern and Western. Within this eclectic mix they become vehicles expressing her concerns for the loss of nature, the echoes of colonialism, migration and transformation, and the concept of ‘home’. Ferdinands upcoming Solo Exhibition at the Riverdale Hub Gallery, Toronto opens on July 15th and runs until August 5th.
Open to all members in good standing of the Belleville Art Association.
All work must be original and completed within the last 18 months.
The work MUST NOT have been previously exhibited anywhere.
Up to 2 entries per member are allowed. Work in all media will be accepted, including acrylic, oil, watercolour, pastel, collage, pencil, charcoal, ink, fibre, sculpture, photography, clay, glass, encaustic, etc. Paintings and the medium used must be completely dry/set at the time of submission.
Presentation is important. The Parrott Gallery requires all works to be ready for display or hanging. If not framed, the sides must be finished (painted). Frames must support the work aesthetically and structurally. The Gallery retains the right to reject any work not suitably presented. Work must not exceed 36” wide, including framing.
The Gallery retains the right to reject any work not suitably presented.
Work must not exceed 36” wide, including framing.
Registration is required. Fees are due with the registration form, which will be available on the BAA website. The registration deadline is Tuesday, October 5, 2024. Please note that the fee of $35 is nonrefundable.
The Parrott Gallery will charge a 30% commission on all sales. The Gallery is responsible for insuring the artwork while it is in the Gallery.
All participating artists must submit a short artist CV and an artist statement when they bring in their work to be juried. Maximum size: One double-sided 8 1/2” by 11” sheet.
Accepted work must remain in the Gallery until the show’s completion.
AWARDS for 2025 The following awards have been confirmedand will be given to deserving artists at the Opening Reception:
1. Wilma Alexander Memorial Award for Best in Show- – $200.
2. Juror Choice Award presented in memory of Barbara Whelan $150.00
3. Juror Choice Award presented in memory of Penny Thompson 150.00
4. Katherine Fellows Memorial Award for Best Abstract – $100
5. Kimberley Jennifer Smeenk memorial award for Creative Excellence – $100
6. Joan and George Reive Award for Best Landscape in Any Medium $100.00
7. Susan Lake memorial award for “Love of Nature” – $100.00
8. Marion Casson Memorial Award for People’s Choice- $100.00
We are awaiting confirmation of three other awards offered in by community partners.
