Collage and Community

Join us on March 14th at 7pm for an engaging artist talk featuring Albany Sutherland, the current artist-in-residence at Hamilton Artists Inc., in conversation with Lisa Pijuan-Nomura. This dialogue will explore the connection between collage and community, highlighting how storytelling unfolds through this medium. Albany will discuss her experience as a self-taught artist and the role of this artist residency in her practice. The conversation will discuss how place inspires storytelling, community connection, and the use of archival material in collage.

Albany Sutherland is an Anishinaabe artist and a member of Marten Falls First Nation. She was raised in Thunder Bay, ON, and has been living in Hamilton for the past six years. She creates hand-cut and digital collages sourced from books, magazines, photographs, and postcards ranging from the 1920s to the 2000s. Albany uses surreal landscapes to express themes of environmentalism and the impacts of colonialism. She integrates Anishinaabe teachings into her artwork through showing a visual representation of interconnectedness and balance. Her curation of shows focuses on the intersection of traditional knowledge and contemporary art practices.

Lisa Pijuan-Nomura is a multidisciplinary artist, storyteller and creativity coach. She is the Artistic Director of Studio Beulah.

For the past 25 years she Lisa has a visual art practice where she focuses on mixed media collage work combining vintage ephemera, textiles, hand written letters and photos from long ago.  Her work has been seen at The Artist Project, Luminato Festival, Gladstone House, The Hundred Dollar Gallery,  DeFacto Gallery, James North Studio, The Cannon Gallery,  One of A Kind Show, Queen West Arts Crawl, Crafternoon Tea, City of Craft, Cabbagetown Arts and Craft Show, Handmade Market and her own show Movies and Makers at the Fox Theatre in the Beach neighbourhood of Toronto. Since moving to Hamilton she has been part of the vibrant art and craft scene, curating Handmade Hamilton at Theatre Aquarius.

Since 2022 she has been an Artist In Residence with Luminato Festival(Toronto, Canada), Nordic Artist Exchange(Tallinn, Estonia), Kolaj Institute(New Orleans, US), Gladstone House(Toronto, Canada) and Chateau Orquevaux(Orquevaux, France).

In 2025 she is working on a new series of mixed media collage to be presented at The Artist Project in Toronto. She will also be presenting her new one person show Basketball Witch in the fall of 2025.