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Join us for the Opening Party to celebrate the launch of The Power Plant's Winter 2023 Exhibition Season!


Be amongst the first to see the new and exciting solo exhibitions by artists [Brenda Draney](https://www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/exhibitions/drink-from-the-river) and [Amartey Golding](https://www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/exhibitions/in-the-comfort-of-embers), as well as _[in parallel](https://www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/exhibitions/in-parallel)_, a group exhibition featuring artists Rouzbeh Akhbari, Joi T. Arcand, Aylan Couchie, Simon Fuh, Anique Jordan, and Julia Rose Sutherland⁠. 

Admission is free, cash bar available all evening. RSVP on Eventbrite to secure your free ticket.
In addition to a new exhibition season, The Power Plant is excited to soon present a [variety of unique programming](https://www.thepowerplant.org/whats-on/calendar) including artist talks, kids workshops, film screenings and so much more!

Opening Party

Brenda Draney (b. 1976, Sawridge First Nation, Treaty 8, with a strong connection to Slave Lake; based in Edmonton) has been featured in exhibitions at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2019); Fogo Island Arts (2019); Oakville Galleries (2018); Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery (2017); Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (2017); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2016); Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2015); and Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (2013).

Brenda Draney (b. 1976, Sawridge First Nation, Treaty 8, with a strong connection to Slave Lake; based in Edmonton) has been featured in exhibitions at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2019); Fogo Island Arts (2019); Oakville Galleries (2018); Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery (2017); Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (2017); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2016); Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2015); and Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (2013). She received her Master of Applied Arts from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver (2010) and her BFA from the University of Alberta, Edmonton (2006). In 2014, Draney was the recipient of the Eldon and Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize, and she won the 2009 RBC Painting Competition. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. 

Amartey Golding (b. 1988, London; based in Norwich) is a visual artist who was raised as a Rastafarian to an Anglo-Scottish mother, Ghanaian father, and Jamaican stepfather. Through the use of sculpture, film, and 2D work, he explores the portrayal of Black masculinity in the media and homophobia within Black British communities.

Amartey Golding (b. 1988, London; based in Norwich) is a visual artist who was raised as a Rastafarian to an Anglo-Scottish mother, Ghanaian father, and Jamaican stepfather. Through the use of sculpture, film, and 2D work, he explores the portrayal of Black masculinity in the media and homophobia within Black British communities. Preferring to work with mediums he is untrained in, he has also experimented with printmaking, fashion, and ballet. Golding studied art and design from 2005 to 2006 and architecture from 2007 to 2010 at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. He has had solo exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Denmark, and the UK, and in 2012–13, he was artist-in-residence at Tashkeel, Dubai. His 2016 film _Chainmail_ was lauded as “The must-see piece of this year’s London Art Fair” by _The Art Newspaper_. In 2019, Golding’s work was included in _Over My Black Body_, curated by Eunice Bélidor and Anaïs Castro at the Université du Québec à Montréal. 

Julia Rose Sutherland is an artist and educator of Mi’kmaq (Metepenagiag Nation) and settler descent. Through her artworks, Sutherland navigates trauma and social issues associated with her Indigenous roots.

Julia Rose Sutherland is an artist and educator of Mi’kmaq (Metepenagiag Nation) and settler descent. Through her artworks, Sutherland navigates trauma and social issues associated with her Indigenous roots. In doing so, the artist encourages more meaningful conversations about Indigenous healing practices, feminism, and identity politics, among other topics. Sutherland’s interdisciplinary art practice employs photography, sculpture, textiles, and performance. She earned her MFA at the University at Buffalo (2019) and her BFA in Craft and New Media at the Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary (2013). 

Rouzbeh Akhbari is a Tehran-born, Toronto-based artist working in video installation and film. His practice is research-driven and usually exists at the intersections of storytelling, critical architecture, and human geography.

Rouzbeh Akhbari is a Tehran-born, Toronto-based artist working in video installation and film. His practice is research-driven and usually exists at the intersections of storytelling, critical architecture, and human geography. Through a delicate examination of the violence and intimacies that occur at the boundaries of lived experience and constructed histories, Akhbari uncovers the minutiae of power that regiments the world around us. He holds a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. 

Joi T. Arcand is an Ottawa-based artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Treaty 6 territory. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with Great Distinction from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, in 2005.

Joi T. Arcand is an Ottawa-based artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Treaty 6 territory. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with Great Distinction from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, in 2005. In 2018, Arcand was shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. Her practice includes photography, digital collage, and graphic design. Using Cree language and syllabics, Arcand creates works of art that not only render visible her own complex relationship to language as a nēhiyaw iskwēw raised in the Prairies but also reclaim and Indigenize public spaces through this new visibility. 

Aylan Couchie is a Nishnaabekwe interdisciplinary artist and writer hailing from Nipissing First Nation. Her works explore the connections between colonial/First Nations histories of place, culture, and Indigenous erasure, in addition to issues of (mis)representation and cultural appropriation. 

Aylan Couchie is a Nishnaabekwe interdisciplinary artist and writer hailing from Nipissing First Nation. Her works explore the connections between colonial/First Nations histories of place, culture, and Indigenous erasure, in addition to issues of (mis)representation and cultural appropriation. Couchie’s sculptures and videos address various themes, including the acknowledgement and reclamation of Indigenous lands through language as well as the trauma around forgotten histories. She is a NSCAD Univeristy, Halifax, alumna and received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, where she focused her thesis on reconciliation and its relationship to monument and public art. She’s currently in her second year of study at Queen’s University, Kingston, where she’s working on her PhD in Cultural Studies. 

Simon Fuh is an artist and writer based in Toronto. He has a Master’s of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto, where he was awarded the Joseph Armand Bombardier SSHRC Scholarship.

Simon Fuh is an artist and writer based in Toronto. He has a Master’s of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto, where he was awarded the Joseph Armand Bombardier SSHRC Scholarship. Fuh works with sound, installation, video, drawing, and sculpture. He tends to build relationships with friends and the community through his work, often incorporating a performative or narrative element that influences the trajectory of his projects. This flexible, social-conceptual approach informs how Fuh explores recurring themes of place, memory, and microhistory. 

Anique Jordan is an award-winning artist, writer, and curator whose practice stems from and returns to the communities that inform it.

Anique Jordan is an award-winning artist, writer, and curator whose practice stems from and returns to the communities that inform it. As an artist, Jordan creates what she calls “impossible images” that combine foundations of traditional Trinidadian carnival and hauntology—a theory referring to past social or cultural elements that linger in the present like a ghost—to challenge historical narratives. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. 

Join us for a party to celebrate the launch of The Power Plant's Winter 2023 Exhibition Season!

Be amongst the first to see the new and exciting solo exhibitions by artists Brenda Draney and Amartey Golding, as well as in parallel,  a group exhibition featuring artists Rouzbeh Akhbari, Joi T. Arcand, Aylan Couchie, Simon Fuh, Anique Jordan, and Julia Rose Sutherland⁠. 

Admission is free, cash bar available all evening. RSVP on Eventbrite to secure your free ticket.
In addition to a new exhibition season, The Power Plant is excited to soon present a variety of unique programming including artist talks, kids workshops, film screenings and so much more!

The Power Plant

Opening Party of Winter 2023 Exhibitions