Event Information

Northern Exposures focuses on a series of sketches and paintings by Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (b. Napanee, Ontario, 1898, d. Toronto, Ontario, 1994). They are a result from three trips in her lifetime. The first, in 1954, was spent on a trawler around the coasts of Newfoundland. In 1960, Daly boarded a government steam ship for three months voyaging through the Eastern Arctic. Finally, in 1961, Daly spent seven weeks in the home of an Inuit family, while she depicted the Inuit of Puvirnituq and the District of Ungava. Her representations of the North will be on view alongside Billy Gauther: Sila, offering a constrast in the shifting views, understanding, and relations of these lands over the last century. This curatorial tour will discuss the inspiration behind Daly's work and more of her history as an artist.

About the Curator

Darryn Doull is the curator of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, with previous appointments as the Curator of Canadian Art at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John’s, NL (2018-2021) and as the Assistant Curator of the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia, ON (2010-16). His curatorial approach brings artworks, objects and archives together to produce poly-vocal, socially-engaged programming that is rooted in thorough research and collaboration. Recent projects include Helloland! Art, War and the Wireless Imagination (2021, co-curated with Melony Ward), Of Myths and Mountains (2020), and Billy Gauthier’s first solo exhibition in a public art gallery, Saunituinnaulungitotluni / Beyond Bone (2019, co-curated with Jessica Winters and Heather Igloliorte). Doull is a graduate of the MVS Curatorial Studies program at the University of Toronto (2018) and received an Honours BFA at the University of Guelph (2010). He is currently based in Toronto, Ontario.

Curatorial Tours are generously sponsored by the Gamble Family.

1) Artwork by Kathleen Daly Pepper in the KWAG vaults. Photo by KWAG.

2) Photo of Darry Doull by Danny Alexander