Each Port Moody Regular Council meeting begins with a featured art presentation. Local performers and artists can request to showcase their art through the Art at Council program. This gives artists an opportunity to share their work with the public and educates Council on the cultural projects taking place throughout our city. Previous presentations have included paintings, sculptures, photography, film, music, sketches, artifacts, dance, and a variety of other forms of artistic expression.

Schedule

Valerie Pugh, House Red Line

January 12, 2025
Valerie Pugh | House Red Line

We are pleased to have Valerie Pugh with us this evening for Art at Council. Valerie, an artist and arts educator, resides in the Tri-Cities. She has exhibited her artwork in group and solo exhibitions at The Vancouver Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and POMO Arts Centre.


Valerie explores relationships between memory, reflection, and imagination through painting, collage, and sculpture. She recently opened The Architecture of Memory, a solo exhibition at The Act Arts Centre in Maple Ridge. Tonight, we are highlighting one of the works in her exhibition titled House Red Line, an acrylic painting on paper.

The artwork in her exhibition explores themes of memory, home, imagination and dreams. Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s (pronounced BA-SCHE-LARD’S) book, The Poetics of Space, Valerie negotiates the distortion and formation of memory and explores how a lived experience is pieced back through the imagination. Memories, which are often abstract in form, are represented as gestural swaths of vivid colour and generous layers of mark making. These abstractions are then constructed into recognizable architectural forms.

The Council video archive can be viewed here. Art at Council begins at the 4 minute 25 second mark.

 

 

 

 

 

Past Schedule

In 2024 there were a total of 21 Art at Council presentations an d can be viewed here.

In 2023, there were a total of 21 Art at Council presentations and can be viewed here.

In 2022, there were a total of 17 Art at Council presentations and can be viewed here.

In 2021, there were a total of 18 Art at Council presentations and can be viewed here.

In 2020, there were a total of 17 Art at Council presentations and can be viewed here.