Lois Crawford 

Community Generator – Lounge  

May 30 – August 9, 2026  

Celebrating over five decades of artistic practice, this exhibition traces the studio history of Lois Crawford, an enduring and influential presence within the Art Gallery of Burlington and the broader cultural life of the city. As both artist and writer, Crawford has contributed richly to Burlington’s creative community, shaping its visual and literary landscape.  

Bringing together works in pastel, watercolour, printmaking, and oil, the exhibition reflects a lifelong dedication to observation, experimentation, and place. Influenced by the French Impressionists, the Group of Seven, and American abstraction, Crawford’s work bridges tradition and personal expression, grounded in both plein air practice and studio exploration.  

This exhibition offers a rare and intimate view into a sustained creative life, honouring Crawford’s lasting impact on the artistic fabric of Burlington.  

Lois Crawford is an award-winning artist with a career spanning more than 50 years, Crawford’s work has been exhibited locally and internationally, from Burlington’s twin cities in the Netherlands and Japan to galleries across Ontario and continues to resonate through community exhibitions and cultural collaborations.  

Jamie Vardy  

Living Again  

May 30 – August 9, 2026  

Community Generator – Hallways  

Living Again is a collection of Jamie Vardy’s collages exploring their experience of trauma, and healing from it.   

 Jamie uses text, material, texture, and ecology to communicate emotions and relationships.  In Living Again mycorrhizal fungi’s mutualistic symbiosis with trees serves as an analog for the relationships that sustained them through their healing.  His incorporation of ephemera* further relates the work to the events that inspired it.  Receipts from camping trips and meals, craft materials, the wrappers from candy shared between friends, paper cups, and seed packets are scattered throughout her work to ground it in the memories they represent.   

The series of six collages central to Living Again are focused on significant locations each representing a step in Jamie’s journey from traumatic experiences and relationships, to healing and the discovery of a new, safe and comfortable sense of self, through building new healthy relationships, community, and reconnecting to the natural world.  The series begins with Violation, Swimming Memories, and all the pain and confusion they contain.  Disclosure acts as a distinct juncture in the narrative, as Jamie experiences a moment of stillness; and fully communicates their experiences to another person for the first time.  Next is the process of joining the world again, growing, and learning how to feel safe while being vulnerable.  The show’s title piece is a self portrait; it contains elements from all of the previous works in the series.   

*Artifacts of everyday life originally meant to be disposable, ex. tickets, packaging, newspapers.   

Jamie Vardy is a queer multidisciplinary artist working primarily in collage, textiles, sculpture, and printmaking.  Her adventurous spirit has led her to explore the outdoors, hiking, cycling, and canoeing to novel and less visited spaces.  They take inspiration from the natural world, relationships between people, and past experiences.  Jamie’s connections to friends, nature, and their own self-reflection is clear throughout his art, they look forward to these interests continuing to inform their practice.