Artist Talks: Barbara Cole and Ted Fullerton for the Canadian Art Hop!
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin is excited to take part in the 2nd edition of the Canadian Art Hop, organized by the ADAC (Art Dealers Association of Canada) from May 1st – 4th, 2025. To celebrate, we are welcoming guests to enjoy two artist talks featuring Barbara Cole, a prominent Canadian photographer, and Ted Fullerton, an established multi-disciplinarian artist, who will each speak on their evolving practices and upcoming exhibitions. Please find details of both events below.
Artist Talk | Barbara Cole | Second Glance
Saturday May 3rd, 2025
Main Floor | 1384 Dufferin Street
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (talk begins at 11:45 AM)
Second Glance invites viewers to slow down and reconsider their initial perceptions. Known for obscuring the human face in most, if not all her previous work, this series in contrast celebrates the self: its surface, its hidden contours, and its passage through time. Cole has always approached photography as a painterly medium, elevating storytelling over realism, and in Second Glance she brings this same ethos to the realm of portraiture. The result is an atmosphere of timeless bygone eras with imagined characters that inhabit these dreamscapes.
With her use of analog film, wet plate ambrotypes, long exposures and collage, Cole turns these portrait photographs into a sculptural experience, revealing the physicality of the photograph and the 150+ year wet collodion process she is both preserving and modernizing.
Barbara Cole is an award-winning Canadian photographer known for her timeless aesthetic. Cole is extensively collected by both public and private institutions. Throughout her career, the artist has worked internationally on commercial projects and has created several large-scale commissions.
Ted Fullerton | Artist Talk | Born In: The Year of the Snake
Saturday May 3rd, 2025
Upper Floor | 1384 Dufferin Street
2:30 - 4:00 PM (talk begins at 2:45 PM)
Born In: The Year Of The Snake explores the notion that images are dualistic in nature as Ted Fullerton sees his work as both symbolic and figurative. The curation of this exhibition supports Fullerton's interest in a pictorial language that illustrates and reinforces the "myth" image - a collective memory and allegory.
The serpent appears frequently throughout Fullerton's body of work as both an image associated with transformation, wisdom and healing, and a personal point of interest for the artist, as he was born in the year of the snake.
“In poetry, words take on meaning beyond their initial intent. Images within my work take on meaning beyond their initial intent.” - Ted Fullerton
Ted Fullerton works in contemporary painting, printmaking and sculpture, and has achieved numerous awards including the Juror's Award in the CIM Centennial Art Competition and the Boston Printmaker's Juried Exhibition award. He has exhibited across Canada as well as in England, Australia, Spain and Yugoslavia. Fullerton's works are in private, corporate and public collections including the Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC; Oregon State University, Oregon, USA; Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON; University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON; and Markborough Properties, Halifax, NS.