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BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2004. PAGe 17.
Bainton Gallery showcases diverse works
By Sarah Mann
Citizen staff
The Blyth Festival has been
instrumental in bringing theatre to
Huron County but it has also brought
other forms of art to the area as well.
The Baihton Gallery opened in
1990 and since then has presented
shows featuring local and world
renown artists. This year is no
different with three exhibits being
shown 'throughout the course of the
summer.
From June 5 to July 2 is the non-
iuried community show where work
by local artists, professional and
amateur, is sure to fill the gallery
with dynamic colour and a variety of
work.
This is one of several opportunities
for local artists the Bainton Gallery
has presented over the last several
years.
With its proud record of world
premieres, Blyth Festival has seen
many of its plays move on to other
stages over the decades. and the
plays of the 2003 season are no
exception.
David S. Craig's hit Having Hope
at Home is included on the playbills
Beginning on July 8 the gallery
will be presenting the recent works
of internationally acclaimed artist
Wesley Bates.
,Blyth Festival Art Gallery
president Ron Walker says the
exhibition will feature astounding
figurative work by Bates who is an
illustrator, graphic designer,
printmaker and painter.
Bates has recently embarked on a
series of large scale charcoal
drawings where theatric personages
confront one another in enigmatic
settings. Also on view at this exhibit
will be some of Bates' recently
published books. The show runs
until July 30.
The third and final show of the
season is called "Last Visions" and
will feature the work of the late
Walter Sunahara.
Walker says these last works of the
painter, printmaker, educator and
senior associate officer of native and
of the Lighthouse Festival Theatre in
Port Dover and Thousand Island
Playhouse in Gananoque.
Ted Johns' two-season Festival hit,
Bamboozled! — He Won't Come In
From the Barn, will be performed at
the Brockville Arts Centre.
From the 2002 season. Douglas
folk arts for the Ontario Arts Council
will provide insight into Sunahara's
long and distinguished career as an
artist.
After the Blyth show the
exhibition will move to the Gendai
Gallery and the Japanese Cultural
Centre in Toronto. The Blyth show
begins Aug. 5 and will run until Sept.
3.
The Blyth Festival Art Gallery
committee of the Blyth Centre for
the Arts is comprised of arts lovers
from across'the region — people like
Walker and his wife Bev of the Blyth
Memories
Oriold's
hit list
Carol Oriold has been president of
the Blyth Festival since 2001.
In her four years as president.
Oriold said she has many wonderful
memories, including fundraising
and directing a vignette for The
Outdoor Donnellys. But one of the
most significant memories is
"hanging out with Gordon Pinsent."
one of Canada's top actors, who
Oriold had invited to be a guest
speaker during an opening night
gala in 2001. •
"It was a real thrill to meet him."
She said her three most
memorable plays are Leaving Home
written by David French, A Field of
Flowers by Laurie Fyffe and Stolen
Lives, The Albert Walker Story by
Peter Colley because "all three had
something in common with us all
locally, but had something in
common with us all universally."
Oriold said she attends every play,.
every season and some plays she
even sees more than once.
Bowie's Goodbye Picadilly has been
picked up by the Red Barn Theatre
in Jackson's Point on Lake Simcoe.
Already •Dave Carley's Test Drive
has been scheduled to move on to
other theatres this fall and winter so
the Festival's reputation for creating
successful plays continues.
area, who were there at the
beginning and moved the gallery
over more than a quarter of a century
ago as it grew. In 1975 the Blyth
Festival had barely been formed
when founding artistic director
James Roy approached the Walkers
one spring day.
Based on that meeting the first
exhibit was prepared for showing in
the basement of Memorial Hall that
same year.
The gallery eventually moved to
the former Stewart's grocery store,
once in the building where the
theatre administration was housed,
then to the loading dock area of the
theatre which later became the Blyth
Library.
It wasn't until 1990 that the gallery
moved to its permanent home in the
newly-constructed connecting link
between the administration offices
and Memorial Hall.
The following year it was
rededicated as The Bainton Gallery.
As a non-profit public gallery it is
unique in Huron County. '
You can visit the gallery during the
Festival season any time the box
office is open by entering the box
office of Memorial Hall.
Blyth hits on other stages