Western Canada’s art magazine since 2002
4 February 2025 Vol 10 No 3 ISSN 2561-3316 © 2025
From the Editor
I have just noticed that we have chosen many women artists to feature in this issue of Galleries West. While the choice wasn't actually intentional, it is worth noting. Nancy Lowry, Deborah Potter, Leesa Streifler, Sheila Nourse, Jackie Olson and Shazia Ahmad are just a few of the female artists who have shows on this month in Canada. They're clearly doing interesting things that are worth checking out.
First up: Laura St. Pierre visits the largest survey of Nancy Lowry's work to date, Colour in Place, this month. The show is on view at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon through April 6, 2025.
It will take you about three hours to drive from Saskatoon to Regina. When you're there, stop by III, a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Regina featuring the work of Saskatchewan artists Deborah Potter, Leesa Streifler and Sheila Nourse. The show is on until March 29.
Then we go to Edmonton, where Galleries West contributor, artist and former intern Megan Klak stopped to interview Shazia Ahmad about her new exhibition, Invitation, on until Feb. 22 at SNAP Gallery. “My work is really about belonging,” Ahmad says.
Go north to Whitehorse next, where you can catch Jackie Olson’s exhibition, The Land Speaks to Me, on at the Yukon Arts Centre through Feb. 20. “As a citizen of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, born and raised in Dawson City, Olson stands in the power of her relationship to the land,” writes Galleries West contributor Nicole Bauberger in her review. “She works with natural materials to make her paper and invites it to explore some of the manufactured elements of her landscape.
In Vancouver? Peter Aspell was a big part of that city's art scene until his death in December 2004. His work is featured in a new exhibition, Colossus, on now through Feb. 22 at Gallery Jones.

CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE: Nicole Bauberger, Megan Klak, Laura St. Pierre
We acknowledge the support of the Government of Alberta Media Fund, the Government of Canada Periodical Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts.
