UPCOMING
The Annual Shady Artists 2025 Show
The Exhibition Runs From September 3 to September 13, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4, 4:00PM to 7:00PM
In the Main Gallery
You are invited to the SHADY Artists Show, in support of My Sisters’ Place, a safe haven for London women.
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About the Exhibit
The Shady Artist consists of Sandi McCabe, Janice Howell, Michele Haley and guest Shady Anne McLean.
There will be over 100 pieces, many depicting London and surrounding area scenes. 20% of the proceeds of art sales will help support a number of programs for the women at the drop-in centre.
The show will run for two weeks, with an opening reception (Thursday September 4, 4-7pm) welcoming friends and supporters of My Sisters’ Place.
It is a great opportunity for visitors to see local art, meet the artists, watch them at work and, at the same time, support a good cause.
For more information about the artists visit https://shadyartists.com/
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....from the twenty-two states of matter: Jo Percival
The Exhibition Runs From September 9 to October 4, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday September 13, 1:00PM to 3:00PM
In LAB203
About the Exhibition
Exploring the complexities of materiality through the entangled fields of science, philosophy and art, I see drawing as a way of putting thoughts down on paper, tracing sensations of the world’s immensity and intimacy.
My work is rooted in the landscape tradition, drawing not only with traditional landscape colours in a variety of media but also with elemental materials : graphite, chalk, water, and earth. At the same time, I’m interested in expanding the idea of landscape beyond representation — toward a more speculative and dynamic notion of nature and matter. A central aspect of my practice is an interest in drawing’s diagrammatic potential—its capacity to exist halfway between concept and image, gesture and system. Working across scales — from the molecular to the cosmic— allows me to question fixed boundaries between body, world and matter.
Traditionally, matter was categorized into three classical states—solid, liquid, and gas—but contemporary physics complicates this view. Some now propose over twenty states of matter, ranging from plasmas to Bose-Einstein condensates to strange quark matter. These aren’t just scientific curiosities; they suggest a world far more unstable, entangled, and fluid than fixed categories allow. Furthermore, matter is no longer seen as inherently “substantial,” but as emergent from fields, probabilities, and patterns of energy.
In my drawings, I try to evoke this constant flux—the coming-together and falling-apart that shapes our perception of material reality.
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The philosopher-ecologist, Tim Morton, talks about how strange it is that we’re losing solid ground under our feet at the exact same moment that we’re figuring out just how dependent upon that ground we are. Ultimately, I view my work as a kind of ode to the disordered beauty of the world we’re in and of. In a time of ecological uncertainty and conceptual fragmentation, I turn to drawing as a means of attunement—an intimate, open-ended way of being with the complexity, vulnerability, and interrelation of all things.
About the Artist
Jo Percival holds an Honours B.A. in Visual Arts from Western University and has previously participated in both group and solo exhibitions in Ottawa and London. As an arts educator, she developed and led a long-running workshop program in London-area schools, working with thousands of children over many years. This experience deeply informed her understanding of art as a relational and transformative practice. Jo has since returned to a full-time, drawing-based studio practice, creating large-scale works using elemental earth materials and mixed media.