The Campus Gallery
Georgian’s Campus Gallery is a vibrant multi-disciplinary exhibition space where students in Design and Visual Arts programs and established artists showcase their work. The Campus Gallery hosts a variety of exhibitions and artist talks that reflect regional, national and international art, craft and design.
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Exhibitions
Growing Confliction
An Exhibition by Amy Wing-Hann Wong and Michelle Mendlowitz
Guest Curator: Paige Lauren Stephen
October 30 – November 30, 2025
About the exhibition
Many bodies have been excluded from discussions in healthcare, leaving voices unacknowledged and unheard. In Growing Confliction, the works of Amy Wing-Hann Wong and Michelle Mendolwitz activate The Campus Gallery to expose the ongoing impact of gender bias found in Western medicine and propose alternative modes of care. Through exploration and investigation of their own bodies and health, the artists offer tangible expressions of illnesses. Both producing works shaped by their own experiences, Mendolwitz’ ceramic sculptures embody pain and resilience within the body, while Wong’s practice critiques the structures and barriers found in healthcare.
This exhibit runs from October 30 – November 30, 2025
This exhibition is in partnership with The Museum and Gallery Studies program and highlights the curatorial work of Paige Lauren Stephen, who graduated from the Museum and Gallery Studies program at Georgian College in 2020. Paige went on to earn her MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practices at OCAD in 2023. The Campus Gallery continues to support graduates from Museum and Gallery Studies with exhibition opportunities and mentorship to current students.
Growing Confliction facilitates dialogue surrounding concerns of gendered healthcare, promoting community discussions and reflection on the urgent need for equitable healthcare. Activated by Michelle Mendlowitz and Amy Wing-Hann Wong, the works offers an alternative experience to how a typical space holding discussions of healthcare – functional, yet sterile and lacking in warmth and comfort – presents itself. The gallery space has been fitted with artworks that hold anthropomorphic qualities, challenging stigmatized histories in healthcare. While Mendlowitz addresses the conflicting growths within her body, Wong explores the inadequacies found within the medical system and the foundations upon which it was built.
Paige Lauren Stephen, Guest Curator, from the Curatorial Essay
Amy Wing-Hann Wong (b. 1981, Toronto, she/they) is an angry Asian feminist disguised as an oil painter. Her practice ranges from painting-based installation to collaborative projects that explore the politics of making noise and thinking through together. She is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University. Often inverting private and public spaces, Wong asserts ways in which a leakiness and messiness of things can aspire towards intersectional feminist and anti-colonial ways of being. Their practice oscillates between varying systems of representation to evoke non-linear, personal narratives. They often work with what they consider a bad idea or a cliché to redefine them on their own terms. Current research explores mother work as methodology and as cultural transmission. Wong completed her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal, MFA at York University in Toronto and post-graduate studies at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Recent projects include Contemporary Kids at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario; _other tongues part I communication at Onsite Gallery, Toronto, Ontario; A Glitter of Seas at Dreamsong, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Michelle Mendlowitz is a Toronto-based ceramic artist. She received a Bachelor of Design from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2005. Since graduating she has maintained a studio practice making both functional and sculptural objects. Mendlowitz has shown work throughout Canada and the US and has received awards from Craft Ontario and the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, among others. Mendlowitz has taught ceramics in studios across Toronto since 2005, and you can currently find her instructing at OCADU, Prosserman JCC, and her studio at 1910 Danforth Ceramics.
Paige Lauren Stephen (she/her) is Tkaronto/Toronto-based British-Canadian curator, artist, and educator. Her research explores community and public history through material culture and contemporary art, with a focus on feminist and queer theories. Stephen completed her BAHons (2019) in Studio Art at the University of Guelph, with a minor in Museum Studies, a Post-Graduate Diploma (2020) in Museum & Gallery Studies from Georgian College, and her MFA (2023) in Criticism and Curatorial Practices at OCAD University, where her thesis exhibition The Craft(y) Revival: Community and Knowledge-Sharing in Textile-based Crafts, earned the program’s Medal and university’s President’s Award.
About the gallery
Location
The Campus Gallery is located in room 140, D building (Helen and Arch Brown Centre for Design and Visual Arts) at the Barrie Campus, Georgian College, 1 Georgian Drive.
Hours of operation
Effective Sept. 21:
- Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Saturday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
For more information, please contact us.
The Campus Gallery objective and mandate is to deliver a diversity of visual to the City of Barrie, its immediate region and within the Georgian College campus community.
The exhibitions celebrate emerging, mid-career and established artists, designers and craftspersons, as well as students within post-secondary arts education. The Campus Gallery will support the exhibition objectives with informative artist lectures that will be open to the immediate community, high schools and the college community, thus creating an environment of critical thinking, insight and appreciation.
Through outreach and exchange, the Campus Gallery will host and present international exchange exhibitions and lectures as well as exhibitions of community outreach at our partner venues. We exhibit our significant collection and bring visual arts to distinctly different audiences, facilitating and encouraging a dialogue and awareness of the arts in our community.
The Campus Gallery is committed to delivering a diverse program of exhibitions by visual artists, designers and crafts people to the Barrie and the Simcoe County arts community. A policy of inclusivity guides our programming, giving equal voice to emerging, mid career and senior artist with diverse practices.
The gallery space allows artists to realize special projects, surveys or retrospectives, and to see large groups of work together in an excellent facility, sometimes for the first time.
We are committed to furthering the knowledge of contemporary practice to the community with our on going artist lecture series, which has consistently featured insightful dialogue form the frontlines of creativity by exceptional regional, national and international artists.
The Campus Gallery identifies its exhibition roster three years in advance and books its artist lecture series on a yearly basis. We provide a diversity of visual arts programming to the community and continue to foster an environment of learning, engagement and dialogue in the visual arts which is only available in one other Barrie location.
The Campus Gallery provides a laboratory space for our Museum and Gallery Studies graduate certificate students to engage with artists, the campus collection, and to develop programming in locations outside of the gallery, based on the Campus Gallery Collection. This offsite programming allows us to bring unique, contemporary art to an even more diverse audience, creating another level of dialogue, awareness and engagement.
Over the past years, we have partnered with the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH), Five Points Theatre (formerly The Mady Centre for the Performing Arts) and the Barrie Courthouse to create exhibition space and thoughtful, unique programming from some of over 2,500 works in the Campus Gallery collection.
The Georgian College Art Collection holds over 5,000 diverse artworks of local, regional, and international significance. The collection has grown over the span of 50 years, as artists have crossed paths with the college’s Design and Visual Arts Department and contributed artworks. The artworks are preserved and displayed in college offices, libraries, and The Campus Gallery, as well as in community venues. The collection space also acts as a learning environment for students of the Museum and Gallery Studies program.
Art from the Georgian Collection Collection can currently be viewed at the Royal Victoria Hospital David McCullough Hearts and Minds Gallery “Healing through Art: Nature’s Comfort” featuring paintings by Christina Luck and curated by students in the Museum and Gallery Studies program. On view until early June 2024.
“Hidden Gems” features art from the Georgian College Collection is on view at The First Floor Gallery at City Hall in Barrie, curated by Collections Assistant, Yasmeen Kazak. On view until mid-June 2024.
Contact us
If you have questions or require more information, please email Amy Bagshaw, Director, The Campus Gallery.