Double Delight at the NAC Flea Market Gallery, 2024-2025

November 3, 2024 – February 9, 2025
Sundays from 9am – 4pm

The Collection, Laura Kay Keeling 2024 

Double Delight, a new collaborative exhibition between artists Janet Hinkle and Laura Kay Keeling, draws inspiration from and incorporates natural imagery sourced and captured in the Niagara region. Displaying works across multiple modalities Hinkle and Keeling explore connections to the natural world, communities, where we find ourselves, the anthropocene, climate change, and more. Drawing from local ecologies like the Port Dalhousie East Pier, the Wetland Canals, and many other regional highlights, the artists represent the surrounding environment and communities while simultaneously combining found palettes and subject matter to create new, contemporary works.

Janet Hinkle is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice rooted in both contemporary fine art and craft. With a fondness for mixing juxtaposing materials and a practice rooted in shared histories, she is driven to explore concepts involving identity. Pulling inspiration from both mid-century forms and futuristic design, her work manifests as installation, sculpture, gatherings, time-based media, and both human-food and human-flora interaction. She is also one third of studio.docx, a creative team that presents innovative contemporary art in public spaces to create unique community experiences. In addition to her creative practice, Janet Hinkle coordinates and curates art projects and artist capacity-building programs.

For more information:
www.janethinkle.com
Instagram: @_janethinkle

Laura Kay Keeling (she/her/they) is a self-taught visual artist based in Hamilton, ON. Her practice is rooted in a process-centered approach that integrates analog photography, video, digital collage, and installation. Keeling has exhibited work across Ontario, the United States, and South Korea and has received support from the Ontario Arts Council. Alongside her studio practice, Keeling is an active arts administrator and instructor.

For more information:
www.laurakaykeeling.com
Instagram: @laurakaykeeling
Sign up for Laura Kay Keeling’s mailing list here.

Founded in 1969 as a collective of working artists, NAC is one of the oldest artist-run organizations in Canada. NAC believes that the arts and critical dialogue on the arts are integral to a healthy community. Niagara Artists Centre is a not-for-profit, charitably registered, member-driven collective formed by and dedicated to serving the working artists and community of Niagara.

NAC Flea Market Gallery
Open Sundays from 9am – 4pm
St. Catharines Factory Outlet Flea Market
46 Turner Crescent
St. Catharines, ON L2P 2H6

905-641-0331
artists@nac.org
nac.org/flea-market-gallery
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The St. Catharines Factory Outlet Flea Market is partially accessible and the inside portion of the Flea Market is accessed via stairs.

Header image description:
Two collages set side by side. The left includes blue water, green grass and moss, white and pink petals with an orange flower in the middle and was made by Janet Hinkle. The right includes repeating patterns of red and pink roses with green leaves and was made by Laura Kay Keeling.