THIS Gallery

THIS Gallery THIS Gallery's mandate is to create a vibrant, fun, and essential arts space. The gallery is open from noon to 5 Tuesday to Saturday. Visit thethisgallery.com.

Other things to note:

Exhibition openings are on the first Saturday of every month.

57 artists showed their work at THIS in 2022. There were:
7 solo exhibitions.
3 poetry readings.
4 workshops.
3 group exhibitions. In total, over 300 works of art were shown. If you want to support the gallery, the best way is to buy original art from these artists.

Coming next to THIS Gallery: French Ending by Kyla Bourgh.What happens when you don’t have the words to fully express yo...
10/05/2026

Coming next to THIS Gallery: French Ending by Kyla Bourgh.

What happens when you don’t have the words to fully express yourself?

Through writing, conté illustration, and translation, French Ending explores the experience of living between languages and the connections that can form despite misunderstanding, distance, and incomplete communication.

The bilingual book was created across continents by Vancouver artist and writer Kyla Bourgh and Buenos Aires-based publisher and designer Viviana Maidanik, with French translations by Antonio Werli.

October 9–18, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 10, 12–4 pm

Finding connection beyond words.

Kyla Bourgh

10/04/2026

Please enjoy the tinkling sound of these ceramic nunchucks by Kate Metten Ceramics

TACTILE closes today, Sunday, October 4 at 4 pm.

Co-curated by THIS Gallery founder Shannon Pawliw and Sophia Crompton, a fourth-year Art History student at McGill University and summer 2026 intern at THIS Gallery, TACTILE brings together seven artists selected from an open call that received submissions from 70 artists.
Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to hold, rub, turn, unzip, manipulate, lean against, embrace and play with the artworks. Rather than treating touch as a threat to the objects on display, TACTILE considers physical interaction as another way of understanding them.

The exhibition brings together works by Natasha Bakas, K8L35 (Kate MacDonald + Les Sears), Kate Metten, Anne Steves, Asma Sultana, WhiteFeather Hunter and Anna Dimoff. Working across painting, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, found objects and unconventional materials, the artists approach touch as a means of investigation, play, empathy, intimacy, memory, comfort and bodily awareness.

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10/02/2026

It’s the final weekend to visit Tactile, a group exhibition featuring art that you can, not only touch, but interact with!

The exhibition brings together works by Natasha Bakas, K8L35 (Kate MacDonald + Les Sears), Kate Metten, Anne Steves, Asma Sultana, WhiteFeather Hunter and Anna Dimoff.

The gallery is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon.


K8L35
Kate Metten Ceramics
Anne Steves Artist
Asma Sultana
Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter
Proof Handmade Goods

New in the gift shop! These Dressed to Impress dinosaurs by Christine Hotton are now available both in person and online...
10/02/2026

New in the gift shop! These Dressed to Impress dinosaurs by Christine Hotton are now available both in person and online at thethisgallery.com

ANNA DIMOFFYes, you can lie on the giant foot.Anna Dimoff’s soft sculptures take familiar parts of the body and blow the...
10/01/2026

ANNA DIMOFF

Yes, you can lie on the giant foot.

Anna Dimoff’s soft sculptures take familiar parts of the body and blow them wildly out of proportion.

Big Foot Lounger is exactly what it sounds like: an enormous fabric foot, big enough to lie on. Wrap Your Arms Around Me Pillow stretches nearly seven feet long, its giant fabric arms inviting you to wrap them around yourself.

Dimoff is the tailor and artist behind Solid Proof Studio, where her work centres on alterations, repair and extending the life of clothing. Her soft sculpture practice gives her an opportunity to loosen the rules of precise tailoring and explore fabric, form and function through play.

These aren’t sculptures you’re expected to admire politely from a distance. Their function depends on you.

Lie down. Wrap yourself up. Get comfortable.

Big Foot Lounger and Wrap Your Arms Around Me Pillow
Anna Dimoff

TACTILE
September 25 – October 4
THIS Gallery

Please touch the art.

Proof Handmade Goods

DR. WHITEFEATHER HUNTERCan we know something differently by touching it?For Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter, touch is not simply...
09/30/2026

DR. WHITEFEATHER HUNTER

Can we know something differently by touching it?

For Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter, touch is not simply a sensory experience. It can be a form of knowledge.

Working across bioart, biotechnology, textiles, performance and feminist technoscience, WhiteFeather explores the relationships between bodies, materials, technology, care and embodied forms of making.

Her work Pleasure Bound brings coil basketry into TACTILE, connecting the knowledge of the hand that made the object with the physical experience of the person encountering it.

In an exhibition built around direct physical experience, WhiteFeather asks us to consider something deceptively simple: what can our bodies teach us that our eyes cannot?

Pleasure Bound
WhiteFeather Hunter

TACTILE
September 25 – October 4
THIS Gallery

Please touch the art.

Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter

ASMA SULTANAA hairbrush is an intensely familiar object. We hold it in our hands and draw it across our bodies without t...
09/29/2026

ASMA SULTANA

A hairbrush is an intensely familiar object. We hold it in our hands and draw it across our bodies without thinking.

In the work of Asma Sultana, that familiarity becomes something more intimate — and more unsettling.

For TACTILE, Sultana presents two used hairbrushes transformed with needles and the artist’s own hair. Her interdisciplinary practice uses hair as both material and metaphor, connecting the body to personal and ancestral memory, migration, loss, healing and her Bangladeshi heritage.
These are objects that ask us to think about what remains of the body in the things we touch and leave behind.

Only Pain Can Heal Pain and I Tried To Leave You
Asma Sultana

TACTILE
September 25 – October 4
THIS Gallery

Please touch the art.

Asma Sultana

ANNE STEVESWhat if touching an artwork could help us imagine the experience of another body?For the past decade, Anne St...
09/28/2026

ANNE STEVES

What if touching an artwork could help us imagine the experience of another body?

For the past decade, Anne Steves has been creating work that explores empathetic connections in troubling times. Her project Do You Whisper a Tiny I’m Sorry? is a collection of wool rugs shaped like dead birds and scaled to hold a human body.

In TACTILE, visitors are invited to physically encounter Flamingo, allowing their own bodies to take the shape of the bird at the moment of its last breath.

Softness and comfort meet something much more difficult. By closing the physical distance between ourselves and another creature, Steves asks us to consider our relationship with the natural world — and what touch might make us feel that looking alone cannot.

Flamingo
Anne Steves

TACTILE
September 25 – October 4
THIS Gallery

Please touch the art.

Anne Steves Artist

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