The Spring Collective /Montreal
Thursday, May 7 from 6 to 9 pm / Opening night will feature a cider tasting by Verger Créatif. /
Friday, May 8 from 6 to 9 pm
Saturday, May 9 from 1 to 5 pm
Sunday, May 10 from 1 to 5 pm
415 rue St Gabriel (corner Notre-Dame) Suite 203
This is a salon style event that will feature art on the wall and sculpture as well as jewelry, textile and ceramics from 15 artists and artisans.
Andreas Krätschmer
Wood You Care For is the contemporary craft studio of woodturner Andreas Krätschmer.
Andreas’ woodturning practice is rooted in a deep appreciation for the tradition of crafts, the cultural history of artifacts and our human interaction with nature.
Sophie Gailliot + Richard Pontais
Sophie Gailliot and Richard Pontais are artists, designers and Montrealers. She is leather, he is wood. Both are textures and structures. Shaped by fine craftsmanship, and bathed in Beaux-Arts and Rock culture. Their union puts new life into traditional technics with modernity and finesse.
Bruce Patrick Cannon
Bruce pursues physical acts of conciliation to natural environments as a resource for healing along with being a gentle reminder to pay homage to that which abounds and surrounds us. He is captivated by all states of wood, whether forest canopies, individual trees, branches, root systems and falling limbs. He is in awe of natural beauty accompanied by the appeal of touch, smell and the symbiotic nature of working with wood that provides guidance.
Claude Lafrance
Claude’s pictorial creations are mainly inspired by lyrical abstraction. Over the years, he has gradually given more time to his creative work, eventually devoting himself entirely to it after a successful career in advertising.
His work is an expression of a quest, a search for something indefinable that goes beyond words, gradually revealing a form of free and perfectly autonomous order, that allows no compromise. In a metaphorical sense, one could name it "language"; language beyond words.
Geneviève Larouche
Having worked in the museum field for about fifteen years, Geneviève fulfilled a long-held desire by taking up pottery three years ago. Practiced as a hobby, it offers her direct contact with the material, fostering a sense of complete presence. Using the potter's wheel, she creates simple objects designed to be part of everyday life.
Ileao
ILEAO is an independent jewelry studio focused on creating exclusive and timeless designs on small, carefully curated series and occasionally, one-of-a-kind pieces.
Ileao takes pride in working slowly and crafting each piece entirely on her own. From concept to final touch, every creation is a labor of passion and a true fruit of time.
Joan Côté
With an intuitive and poetic approach, Joann works on several projects simultaneously.
Imperfection, fragility, transparency, and sensitivity are central to Joan’s artistic research, where disciplines, materials, movement, and subjects intertwine and converge toward a shared awareness. Photographs captured in motion create a blur and a perception that departs from reality, entering a timeless and metaphorical realm. The figures, whose contemporary attitudes emerge, contrast with the nature in which they are situated, creating a duality between strength and gentleness.
Kathleen Finlay
Kathleen’s multi-media exploration through painting, photography and sculpture is a constant desire to observe how human presence intervenes in the landscape with the purity of nature. She finds refuge in a muted and restrained palate, and is fascinated with symbols that remind us that life is fleeting and transient.
Kiève
Every piece is designed and handcrafted in Montreal by Kiève, a place where her heart and creativity unite. Her jewelry is crafted to inspire and educate, sparking conversations about the often-taboo and encouraging a world of compassion and understanding. These pieces are more than jewelry—they’re a catalyst for openness and acceptance.
Line St-Jean
Line is largely self-taught as a multifaceted artist. She explores ideas to foster a dialogue between visual art and everyday objects. It's in the spirit of Wabi-Sabi, which seeks to find beauty in irregularity, imperfection, and the movement of life, that the marks of time and the simplicity of gesture coexist in her intuitive language. Democratizing art, recycling, using natural fibers, and making it accessible without sacrificing authenticity in an increasingly artificial, digitized, and disposable world are at the heart of her creations.
Mini-Cinéma
Montreal-based artist Hugo Cantin transforms vintage 16mm film into luminous, linear-patterned collages. By carefully selecting and splicing found footage, he reimagines narratives through color and composition. Encased in handmade LED lightboxes, his works invite an intimate viewing experience—shifting from abstract patterns to hundreds of tiny images upon closer inspection. Blending nostalgia and reinvention, Cantin preserves the past while offering a new cinematic perspective.
Nick Ruth
When he thinks about the world, Nick thinks about what we put in it and what that says about us. He also thinks about how we represent the world to ourselves and the ways in which image making has shaped our understanding of things. He tries to deal with the quotidian facts of how things are and also what the power of pictorial invention can offer. Like so many artists He admires, he wants to make work that leads with a depth of feeling, unfolds visually over time, and gives you a lot to think about.
Onira Lussier
Like an archaeologist who discovers artifacts, Onira’s drawings uncover enigmatic forms. At the same time a game of reliefs and shadows, colors and graphic lines, she composes abstract organic appearance forms, sculptural volumes which can evoke as much primitive figures, archaeological objects, members, as daydreams, forms from the unconscious.
Her drawings are propositions of perceptions of the gesture, of the fundamental relation of the human to the line.
RGB
RGB is an artist collective from the Montreal area who works sometimes live or in the studio, with paint, stencils, collage, drawings and more.
R: Phil, G: Fred, and B: Jee form the trio RGB.They create exotic, exuberant, and giant tapestry-style canvases that reflect their three individual personalities. Each member of the group follows only one rule: DO EVERYTHING AS THEY WANT, without consulting their colleagues and without expecting a necessarily aesthetic result. This is how the trio has been making their mark publicly and without pretension since 2001.
SONIA HABERSTICH
Sonia’s textile work passes through hands, touch, shapes, and colours. She uses existing materials, mass-produced, which are assembled in organic outputs. Accumulation of objects, for example, show a molecular world. Her personal approach, secular and intuitive, shapes her iconography. Her installations are moments, spaces in which the body is drawn through the excitement of touch and sight. In the last few years, her work has evolved around daily activities, rituals, repeated movements such as knitting and crochet.