Past Exhibitions
BaxterCannon operates two galleries. Our 1100 square-foot main gallery is available for public viewings Saturdays 2:30 to 5:30 and Sundays 1:30 to 4:30. We also invite you to make an appointment if weekends are not convenient for you. Our window gallery, known as “The Fernwood Small” , is accessible 24/7 and is located in Fernwood Square.
2022
Cuba is it’s People Laurie Baxter
With sheltering in place, we have been given this opportunity to look back at our body of work and reflect on all the incredible people we have been able to meet and places we’ve experienced. Cuba is Its People is a collection of images from our most recent trip to Havana that captures the stories of a resilient and resourceful group of people.
Other Worlds Leanne Gummersbach
In this series Leanne Gummersbach explores the places in between, spaces of transition. These images, she finds, are narrative in quality- “the line blurs between fact and fiction, memory and myth, nature and industry. Here, in these surreal portals, these odd juxtapositions , is where I find ghosts, traces of what once was, and the beginnings of story. When the Pied Piper stole the children from Hamelin and lured them to a cave, what did it look like on the other side?”
I Misteri Laurie Baxter
These images by Laurie Rae Baxter capture the processions in Sicily on Good Friday. In Sicily they are known as the “Mysteries”; we know them as “Stations of the Cross.” The Passion of the Christ comes to life through a live representation where real people all play a part in carrying the statue scenes of Christ’s final hours. Streets and Squares are transformed into a stage full of drama where betrayal, murder and the pain of a mother comes alive.
Honouring the Dead in San Miguel
Laurie Baxter & Charles Cannon
Skeletons, painted faces, and lots of sweets; No, it’s not Halloween, it’s Dia de Los Muertos or Day of the Dead — a celebration that honours the deceased in Mexico (and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere). It combines indigenous Aztec and Catholic traditions. It’s believed that the spirits of the dead are allowed to visit their families on October 31st and leave on November 2nd.
These images were taken in San Miguel, Mexico during the Dia de Los Muertos parade on November 2nd, 2019 by Laurie Baxter and Charles Cannon.
Cuba is it’s People Charles Cannon
Water Babies Laurie Baxter
The joy of summer childhood is captured in these technicolor images from artist Laurie Rae Baxter. Unbridled delight, playful bubbles and aqua marine smiles are all revealed as an underwater relationship between the child and the pool. Ephemeral, fleeting moments of the season are juxtaposed with color , form and motion. Summer has it all!
“You Never Take Your Christmas Lights Down until After Stock Show.” Charles Cannon
Grab your Cowboy hat and pull on your boots-you don’t want to miss Denver Colorado’s Stock Show. Cattle are bought, cattle are sold, and somewhere in between a tamale can be eaten. Long standing traditions endure and some new ones just might be made…
2021
Burns
Brian Kipp
A collection of images taken over the past five years that document the aftermath of the forest fires in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of BC.
"Each summer we were acutely aware of the fire activity and efforts to control the burns," the artist says. Kipp’s family played a central role in the development of water-bombing fire suppression technology. "Only now," Kipp continues, "are the government recognizing the expertise in fire control and forest management that has been practised by our indigenous peoples for centuries."
The show was paired with a poem “The Gods Don’t Tell Us Everything” by the award-winning and Victoria-based poet, Lorna Crozier.
City of Gardens
Various artists
During this time of transformation, Victoria’s flowering gardens serve as a beautiful reminder of the metamorphosis that occurs with time. For this exhibit, BaxterCannon Photo Gallery invited the public to submit images around the theme, “City of Gardens.” Thirteen images were selected and exhibited during the 2021 Fernwood Art Stroll.
Works by: Cecile Brisebois Guillemot, Dylan Carter, Kimberly Wilson, Leanne Gummersbach, Marty Borsboom, Mary McArthur, Matt Somerville, and Tori Jones.
Spirit Dwelling
Brian Kipp
Vancouver-based photographer, Brian Kipp, has spent the past five years documenting the last standing churches built on of the land of the First Nations people throughout British Columbia. These visual-striking images act as historical artifacts and physical evidence of colonialism. Dating back to the 1860’s, these churches are some the oldest standing structures and showcase native craftsmanship.
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Laurie Baxter
Laurie Baxter’s images capture the festivities during the Chinese New Year parade in Canada’s oldest Chinatown in Victoria, BC. The celebration marks the transition between zodiac signs (2021 as the year of the Ox and 2020 as the year of the Rat) and the first day of the New Year Calendar, a lunisolar calendar dating further back than the Gregorian calendar.
2020
Scanography
Janet Dwyer
This short documentary showcases BaxterCannon’s main gallery exhibition of Salt-Spring based artist, Janet Dwyer, and her “photo scaonography.” Dwyer has pioneered this process where she lays found nature objects (including living insects) in the bed of her flatbed scanner to capture intricate still lives that when printed, read like paintings.
Best of “Creepy or Cute: Dog Costume Competition”
This “Fernwood Small” window gallery show featured BaxterCannon’s favourite images taken during the SPCA fundraiser and Dog Costume Competition held in Fernwood Square on Halloween, 2020. This event provided a COVID-19-safe and fun way to build community and raise money for low-income pet-owners. View our mini documentary of the event here.