Shelley Ouellet

special projects

2011 Tea for Tales
2011 SOUP
2010 SOUP
2006 - 2008 Carpet 'N Toast Gallery

solo exhibitions

2011 Johnston Falls
2009 Johnston Falls
2008 This old thing?
2007 All That Glitters…
2006 Tag (with Erin MacMillan)
2006 Talk Back
2006 Shoes
2004 Friday, February 13th, 2004
2001 - 02 Wish You Were Here...
2000 Bonjour, Je m’appelle Shelley Ouellet
1999 Marilyn
1999 Aviary
1997 - 99 Entomology
1997 Quilt
1995 Entomology
1994 Entomology
1994 Bunnies

group exhibitions

2011 The Directors' Show/Role
2011 Tea for Tarts
2009 Radiant
2005 Stride 20th Anniversary
2002 Alberta Biennial
2002 Art Throb
2002 ACAD Faculty Exhibition
2000 Coffee Break@instant coffee.com
1999 Light a Match
1996 Alberta Biennial
1996 Numbered Company
1995 Mysteries of the Flesh
1995 Copy

other diversions

2006 - 2008 Carpet 'N Toast Gallery
1996 - 2006 vanitygallery.com

Aviary
Southern Alberta Art Gallery

Lethbridge, AB

Aviary is an installation addressing the exhibition site and the community supporting the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG) in Lethbridge, Alberta. The public art gallery is housed in the town's former library and once contested gift from the Carnegie family. Lethbridge is a town that boasts one of the largest public collections of contemporary and modern art in Canada. It is also a blue-collar, small, rural town in the Alberta badlands. From the beginning, mine owners who built the town understood the value of supporting diverse centres of cultural activity for community development. To this day the city continues to support an excellent university, a wide range of theatre and music companies and several art galleries.

Lethbridgians were asked to submit drawings of birds for the Aviary project at SAAG. With the support of the gallery's marketing guru, local media, schools and sports teams, more than 5000 drawings of birds were contributed to the project. These drawings were catalogued and bound and displayed in the installation with a large 6-panel digital print. The large image of the exterior of the gallery is made of thousands of pixels and each pixel holds the name of one of the contributors to the Aviary project.

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