Art Gallery of Guelph installs new addition to sculpture park

GUELPH – The Art Gallery of Guelph (AGG) is recently installed the 41st work in the Donald Forster Sculpture Park.

The piece is called  Maada’oonidwag (Coming together) by artist KC Adams.

The sculpture was unveiled on Dec. 4, followed by a public reception.

Located on the grounds north of the gallery, Adams has created five bronzes in the form of traditional Indigenous ceramic vessels that rest on a limestone base etched with the paths of the Speed and Eramosa rivers.

For Adams, who is Anishinaabe, Nêhiyaw, and British, the practice of creating clay pottery using the techniques of her ancestors connects her to traditional ways of life as well as ways to live in relationship with the waters that have shaped the land.

The piece was commissioned with the generous support of Joan and George Todd through the Florence G. Partridge Fund.

Based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 territory, KC Adams graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and works today across media that include sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, digital technology, and printmaking.

Adams has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and her work is represented in private and public collections nationally and internationally, including that of the National Gallery of Canada.

Recently commissioned to design the rotunda of the Red River Innovation Centre, Adams was a Senate 150 Medal recipient for Perception, a photo-based project addressing the discrimination of Indigenous peoples.