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Wobbly Ground

Various Artists

December 08, 2025 - December 12, 2025

Snelgrove Art Gallery

Curated by Kim Kargut and Christie Keller

Gallery hours: Monday - Friday between 10am - 4pm

Reception: Thursday, December 11 from 5 - 7pm

About the Exhibition

With a world full of complicated issues, this exhibition explores the tension between stability and instability – the delicate dance of forms that refuse to settle. “Wobbly-ness” is not a flaw but a language, a way of speaking through imbalance and motion. Each piece begins with questions: Can anything be stable or secure? How does sculpture speak when certainty is absent? In this diverse group, it is apparent that each artist has a very unique take on the answer, if there is one.

Materiality can dictate what our brains perceive as being solid, but upon closer observation that stability falls apart…

it is not easy to tackle “wobbly-ness”
it takes an ocean to feel the wobble
stability-instability with interesting shapes
the precarious concepts, moving objects
with creative chaos space throughout
how does sculpture speak?
sculptural soup, uninformed formations…

The shapes created are precarious, sometimes chaotic, yet deeply intentional. They echo the unpredictability of life—objects leaning, shifting, resisting permanence. This sculptural soup of uninformed formations invites viewers to embrace creative chaos, to find beauty in the uncertain and the incomplete.

The sculptures do not stand still; they breathe, they challenge, they ask us to reconsider what it means to be grounded….

Enjoy the paradox, we feel it is safe to say that we are indeed on Wobbly Ground

 

Written by Atrayee Basu and Shona Dietz

Featured Artists

| Tobi Ayeni | Atrayee Basu | Raina Buffalo Pechawis | Jensen Canfield | Ailah Carpenter | Darwin Cowell | Shona Dietz | Hasnat Gondal | Kim Kargut | Christie Keller | Amanda May | Ryan Richard | Ella Zentner |

Programming and Events

Reception: Thursday, December 11 from 5 - 7pm