Generating new ideas, and building a global presence
The work we do extends beyond our home in North Bay, Ontario, across the north east, and beyond. Here are some of the fantastic projects that we create, collaborate on and grow.
We are passionate about art and the environment
We have multiple projects on the go and, here at the Novah Gallery are proud to feature our national and international presence in all of these endeavours.
Baekdudaegun to Boreal,international nature art exchange project – May and June, 2025
Baekdudaegun to Boreal, a Canada/South Korea Nature Art Exchange project – Phase 2 in Temagami, Ontario, Canada – June 7-28, 2025
A view of Caribou Mountain Tower and “Skulls and Bones” installation by Anishinaabe Artist, Donald Chretien. Below is a view of Soonim Kim’s installation “Moon on the Caribou”. Also now on view at the Caribou Mountain Nature Art Park.
Above, an installation in red granite from Simon Frank for Baekdudaegun to Boreal project in Temagami, Ontario. Below is a detail from an installation at the Caribou Mountain Nature Art Park called Creator Destroyer Portal Spiral.
Baekdudaegun to Boreal, a Canada/South Korea Nature Art Exchange project – Phase 1 in Gongju, South Korea – May 10-31, 2025
Installation shots taken by D. Wilson of works created for the Yeonmisan Nature Art Park in South Korea.
Broken Forests Eco-Artist Group Artists created three art installations at this Nature Art Park in Korea. Below are works by Ernest Daetwyler, Dermot Wilson and Don Chretien.
Don Chretien’s “Carp” painting and Kim Soonim “Moon on Geumgang Riverside” documentation video.
With the Yeonmisan Mountain in the background…”Red Coal Screen Spiral” by Dermot Wilson.
Northern Queer Ecologies Symposium – April 25-27, 2025
QUN curator James Fowler foraging in the forest near Caribou Mountain.
Doreen Inglis, Anishinaabe Elder, guided participants at the Northern Queer Ecologies Symposium held at Nipissing University on April 26, 2025.
Terre Chartrand, knowledge keeper and symposium leader, poses here with participants at the Northern Queer Ecologies Symposium. April 25, 2025
Wild Waysides: Queer Ecologies and the New Natural
Broken Forests Poland – Sept. 2 – 17, 2024
Broken Forests Poland 2024 This project involved a two-week artists residency in Horyniec-Zdroj, Poland near the border with Ukraine. Artists from North and South America, Europe and Asia attended this event, researched the forest communities of the area, installed works in botanical gardens and forest sites, performed works and exhibited visual artworks in galleries and cultural centres in Narol, Zamosc, and Arboretum Bolestraszyce.
Mateus Stelini from Brazil performing outside of the Zamosc Gallery.
Don Chretien’s exhibition at the Arboretum.
Canadian, Taiwanese and Polish artists visited the forestry service station near Narol, Poland.
Queer Up North at White Bear – August 15 – 30, 2024
The first in a series of residencies at the Northlands Paradise Lodge in Temagami, Ontario. 2SLGBTQ+ artists from Britain, USA and Canada experienced northern Ontario’s boreal forest for two weeks and made art for a travelling group exhibition organized by the Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective.
Photos below include: Walt Segers, Norma Vieira, Alex Maeve Campbell, Christian Bernard Singer and Patrick Dacosta.
Clearcut Reanimated – August, 2024
This site-specific performance and installation project was funded by NRCC and the Artists of the Broken Forests Fireweed collective. We would like to thank the Legacy Gallery, Victoria, BC for their assistance in producing this important environmental art event.
Image below shows an installation in the clearcut by Gwen MacGregor.
Image below is from a performance by Johannes Zits.
Aawan-y-Yawang – Group Exhibition
A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Mixed Media Artworks: the Art of Post-capitalist Reconciliation
Featured Artists: Melinda Shank, Clayton Samuel King, Don Chretien, Russell Noganosh, Lisa Pitawanakwat, Santaana Eshkawkogan and Mike Cywink.
Exhibition Title: “Aawan-e-yaawang” meaning “It is What it is”, translation by: Elder Barbara Nolan, Garden River First Nation.
Curators: Michael “Cy” Cywink, Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, Manitoulin Island and Dermot Wilson, Nipissing Regional Curatorial Collective, North Bay
Wild Alchemy and the Global Grove
Artists from across the province and other countries create installations and exhibit artworks in three venues across Ontario. Novah Gallery in North Bay, Assembly Hall Gallery in Etobicoke, and Timmins Museum and National Exhibition Centre in Timmins. This NRCC and Broken Forests Group touring exhibition project was supported by the Ontario Arts Council
White Bear Residency
Coming soon – a residency at Northland’s Paradise lodge and White Bear Old Growth Forest in Temagami
Ice Follies
A biennal on frozen Lake Nipissing in collaboration with several Nipissing Region arts organizations.
Escarpment Erasure
Broken Forests Eco-Artists interventions on the Niagara Escarpment near Blue Mountain.
World Culture Fusion Fest
The World Culture Fusion Fest is a gathering and celebration of musical and sonic creative imagination that occurs in the summer and fall of each year in North Bay, Ontario.
Public Presentations of Protest and Protection
Below is a detail from a site-specific installation by Anishinabe Artist, Don Chretien that was installed at High Park in Toronto, Ontario Canada in 2022. Broken Forests Group paid the City of Toronto almost $4000 for the right to mount public artworks in the park.
a Broken Forest Group/NRCC production
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