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Artist: Jennifer Chin
Category: Temporary Public Art Projects
Address: 10150 The Gore Rd

This public art initiative is part of the My Neighbourhood Art Project; a series of site-specific, temporary art installations created in collaboration with the local community. One of the goals of this project is to increase artist opportunities by pairing a local emerging artist with a seasoned lead artist. These artists worked together to facilitate a series of community art workshops themed around migration and home; working with participants enrolled in summer camp programs at Gore Meadows Community Centre. They invited members of the community to help create a visual tribute to their vibrant neighbourhood and the home they have created here.

Images were gathered during cyanotype workshops where participants were asked to provide an object that reminded them of home. The items were photographed and printed in cyanotype, a historic photographic process that dates back to 1842, producing images in deep shades of blue. A selection of flowers from the community centre grounds and surrounding meadow were also collected, printed, and added to the work resulting in over 250 individual digital images created by over 180 community participants!

The artist placed each of the images in the approximate location of the stars as they would appear in the night sky over Gore Meadows. They are displayed in three panels, one each for April, August, and December. The resulting work is a deep blue celestial map leading to the artwork's location at Gore Meadows.

My Neighbourhood Art Project responds to a council directive for city-wide neighbourhood beautification and speaks to a need for meaningful, neighbourhood-level, placemaking, and community arts engagement.

image of Finding Home, 2023

Jennifer Chin is a multi-disciplinary visual artist who approaches her work from a conceptual perspective with an interest in examining the social, cultural, and economic lives of objects. She holds an associates diploma (AOCAD) from The Ontario College of Art and Design, and a Masters of Fine Art (MFA) from the University of Windsor. She has exhibited her work in numerous screenings and exhibitions at galleries and museums in North America and abroad including the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, the Art Gallery of Calgary, and the Museum of Modern Art in Hefei, China.

Aditi Ganeev Sangwan is a visual artist and educator based in Brampton. As co-founder of Art Studio Izza, she is working towards developing ecologically sustainable practices in contemporary art practice. Her artworks respond to her immediate surroundings, both real and imagined. She works in various mediums, including painting, drawing, printmaking, installation, videos, cyanotype, and poetry.