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This walking tour invites you to take a closer look at three temporary artworks in the Yonge + St. Clair neighbourhood. With firsthand insight from the artists and designers behind the projects, delve deeper into the installations, their stories and how they came to be.
DesignTO Tours: Dualities
Feb
02
Experience a transformative fusion of art and fashion at this textile art exhibition by Lilian Hallak. Explore a vibrant collection of fabric designs merging traditional artistry with functional beauty. Celebrate the limitless creativity that turns textiles into unique expressions of individuality and culture. Join us in this colourful journey of self-expression through fabric art.
Threads of Imagination
Jan
24
'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' is a series of large mysterious light-forms by designer Molly Valentine Dierks. Inspired by Ukiyo-e, manga, and Disney drawings, the glowing pastel LED sculptures revel in the alluring, the inexplicable, and the sensual.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Jan
20
‘Void’ is a solo exhibition of jewellery by Toronto-based Chinese artist Chu Winnie Cheung that explores constraint, censorship and discrimination in the context of contemporary Chinese society. Through her jewellery, Winnie juxtaposes rigid socio-cultural norms with the raw, unbridled energy of nature – symbolized by free-floating clouds.
Void: Jewellery by Chu Winnie Cheung
Jan
11
'Beyond the Body' by Pixel Heller transforms costumes into sculptural extensions, blending wearable art and abstraction. These pieces explore the fluidity of masquerade and evoke rituals, memory, and ancestral ties, bridging identity and time between the past and present.
Beyond the Body
Jan
24
Through the installation 'Plasticity,' Shira Yavor challenges the normalized use of plastic in everyday fashion. Corset-like bodices were moulded from acrylic plastic sheets and transformed into fluid, wearable art. These bodices float in space, evoking a futuristic, dream-like ambiance.
Plasticity
Jan
19
Hand-woven yardage made from raw materials produced exclusively within Canada, including local wool and locally foraged dye plants. Exhibited as a craft object, this work by Charlotte Little highlights the importance of considering our clothes at all stages of production.
Weaving the Fibreshed
Jan
24
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