Unscripted Speaker Series with Governor General's Award recipient Wyn Geleynse
Thu, May 22
|TAP Centre for Creativity
Join us for a talk about artistic practice and portraits of community.
Time & Location
May 22, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
TAP Centre for Creativity, 203 Dundas St, London, ON N6A 1G4, Canada
About The Event
Join us for a visit with Governor General's Award recipient Wyn Geleynse who will be at TAP Centre for Creativity to talk about his artistic practice and portraits of his community. This Unscripted conversation will be led by Josh Lambier, Artistic Director of Words Literary & Creative Arts Festival, who will expertly guide the dialogue and moderate a short audience Q&A.
Prior to the Unscripted conversation, you are invited into our gallery space to view Wyn's Community Portraits in LAB 203. For more information about the artist and exhibition CLICK HERE
Advanced registration is recommended for this event to secure your seat. In partnership with WORDS, we are offering this as a hybrid event. If you are unable to join us in person for the conversation, you can attend the evhttps://www.wyngeleynse.net/aboutent virtually, CLICK HERE to register for the virtual link.
About the Artist
Wyn is a multimedia artist living and working in London, Ontario. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1947, Geleynse moved to Canada as a child and was raised in London, Ontario. Since 1969, he has exhibited extensively both in Canada and Europe and is considered one of Canada's pioneer film and video projection artists. For more on the artist and his work CLICK HERE
About the Exhibition
Originally conceived as a simple exercise in painting the portrait of a close friend and fellow artist, Geleynse saw a bigger project as more friends and acquaintances from his walk in life — from the person who prepares and serves his coffee, colleagues from the arts community, a shop keeper at his local stereo shop, co-workers at the Mission Store where Geleynse volunteers twice a week, the woman who cleans the building that houses his studio — various members of Geleynse’s community stepped forward to be caught in paint on his paper canvas. With forty-one portraits, a series was born from that simple exercise.
This series of portraits were presented one at a time for a month, beginning at Milos Craft Beer Emporium last September to December and now two portraits are presented each month at TAP Centre for Creativity. It’s an unusual method to display an exhibit but one that almost mimics the way we encounter our friends and cohorts and acquaintances in daily life, a pleasant reminder that our communal time together is slightly fragmented.