Another Green World: Works from the Collection

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Antonia Hirsch, World Flag, 2009. Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, purchased with support from the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation, 2024

Another Green World: Works from the Collection

Joan Balzar, Tom Burrows, Kate Craig, Gabi Dao, Sarah Dobai, Jesse Gray, Antonia Hirsch, Tiziana La Melia, Damian Moppett, Nadia Myre, Gailan Ngan, Jerry Pethick, Dana Qaddah, Gordon Smith, Mark Soo and Stephanie Stein

June 20 – August 10, 2025

Another Green World brings together artists' works from the Belkin's collection, many of them recent acquisitions, to consider spaces that redraw the boundaries of power, play and form. The green world is part of a second-world Renaissance attitude born of a human desire to live in and control a world of human invention. The second world of art and speculative thinking (versus the first world made by a god or by nature) seeks human-made order and meaning.

These second, green worlds are spaces of possibility. They might be ambiguous sites, redrawn maps, critiques of control, pastoral edens or portals where puppets, dislocated appendages, doubles and loops proliferate. The exhibition considers form in the building of other worlds, whether speculative models, abstractions or narratives. Borrowing its title from Brian Eno's 1975 album of the same name, the exhibition Another Green World echoes a cyclical form of thinking in Eno's observation that in "trying to project myself at a tangent [I] always seem eventually to arrive back at the same place.”

Another Green World: Works from the Collection is curated by Melanie O’Brian and made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council, our Belkin Curator’s Forum members, and our individual donors who financially support our acquisitions and donate artworks to the collection.