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painting GARFIELD MORGAN, YORBANTU , OIL ACRYLIC AND PAPER COLLAGE
SHARED HISTORIES
New Routes: threads through space and time, a group show running Sept. 18 to Dec. 6 at the Mitchell Art
Gallery, draws on the Jamaican ancestry of its four artists: the multidisciplinary Elsa Robinson; painter Garfield Morgan
(artwork pictured above); Afrofuturist street and textile artist AJA Louden; and Raneece Buddan, winner of the
2025 Foote Prize for visual artists in Edmonton. The artists worked under the guidance of Yaniya Lee, a historian
of Black Canadian art based in Berlin, meeting with her individually and as a group to better understand the threads
that bound them to one another, to the Prairies and to their diasporic history. “The ultimate goal”, Robinson says,
“was for (Lee) to reflect where each of us was in relation to one another.” She says it was a process unlike
anything she’d experienced before. The exhibition centrepiece is a collaborative work that harmonizes their
distinct visions and practices into a shared story. —Zachary Ayotte
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