Garden Studies draws wide linkages between the gardening proclivities of Agnes Etherington, artistic depictions of plants and flowers from the Agnes collections and Kingston’s colonial architecture and prison cultures. By exploring the window and the garden together in a play of forms and perspectives, the curatorial team invites viewers to reflect on thresholds between inside and outside and to visualize a sort of conceptual garden as a nurturing space for growth and relations within difference. Can a “garden” of artworks gesture to a future space for which we collectively long?

Mary E. Rawlyk, Shading Window, 1977, intaglio and card relief and embossing on paper, 16/20. Gift of Mary Rawlyk in memory of Natalie Luckyj, 2002 (45-023.16