The Sun Never Sets: Victoria Park in Context

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Rachelle Viader Knowles, Don Gill

Other associated events: Opening Reception Friday, July 25, 7:30 pm

"The sun never sets" refers both to Regina's status as "The Queen City", named after Queen Victoria Regina and the brilliant prairie sunshine that bathes its streets and parks. The name of Victoria Park connects it to colonial England, and places it in several contexts; a local context as the main downtown square and a global context as a member of a worldwide "club" of Victoria Parks. Similarly, the architecture that surrounds the park is influenced by international styles and trends of the last one hundred years with often regional characteristics that allow the buildings to co-exist and form the spatial edge of the park. New works by Rachelle Viader Knowles and Don Gill will explore Victoria Park today: as a concept and a place, juxtaposed with a history of Victoria Park and the buildings which rose around it. Rachelle Viader Knowles' work will include a video installation/link-up with her niece in Victoria Park, Cardiff, Wales and an intervention in Regina's Park. The words "Think of England" will be inscribed on the ground cover. Don Gill will create a photo-based "archive" of the neighbourhoods he traverses in and around Victoria Park including the buildings examined in the exhibition. Both artists provide distinct explorations of the nature of place and personal identity and a critique, as it were, of formal and informal uses of public spaces. "View the process of Don Gill's ongoing Erratic Space project at http://erraticspacevictoriapark.blogspot.com The Sun Never Sets: Victoria Park in Context is a special project of the Regina Public Library Centennial Celebration.

Rachelle Viader Knowles, Think of England, 2008.