This body of work by Meggan Winsley is about survival, and of wearing masks so that we may endure.

Variations on Urban Planning features work that aims to unpack the process of contemporary city building, drawing on the order/disorder of the construction site as its primary motif.

The Figure: Trials and Tribulations explores Nancy Hanada's struggles with experimentation and balancing reality versus imagination in creating figures using monotype printmaking. It is a journey that includes triumphs, disasters and happy accidents.

Susan Cunningham elevates the gifts given to her by her students (she is an adult language teacher) by recreating them on paper four or more times their original size. They take on a monumental presence that honours the people who gifted them.

Rebecca Cowan is a printmaker, book artist and arts educator based in Kingston, Ontario. Through her monotype series, Cowan explores how the ongoing conflict between security and freedom contributes to inner strength and psychological resilience.

Laine Groeneweg is a printmaker currently living in Hamilton, Canada. His latest work examines the properties of rust and its ability to be both an indicator of decay and the passage of time.

Josh Brien is an artist from Calgary, Alberta. His art is a tool for pointing, gesturing towards a reality found in the warmth of sunlight on skin or the prickle of grass under bare feet.

Kristie MacDonald’s art practice is concerned with the preservation and destruction of documents as a means by which societies amass information, interpret evidence and construct histories.

Jeannette Nguyen’s work is illustrative in style, comical with strokes of whimsy. She works with themes revolving around subconscious anxieties often pertaining to nature, animals, the environment and our human relationship to these things.

SPEAK FREELY is composed of light and shadow filtered through digitally produced papercuts, a cacophony of gestures and symbols that imitate sharing and appropriation across traditions, beliefs and practices.