Main Gallery:
a golden bowl
Shazia Ahmad, Liz Bentley, Rohzin Tayaraniyousefabadi, and Ulrike Veith
April 18 – June 6 | 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday – April 18, 2025 | 1-3 PM
At times a vessel and other times a sieve, a golden bowl reflects on acts of carrying memory. Artists Shazia Ahmad, Liz Bentley, Rozhin Tayaraniyousefabadi, and Ulrike Veith engage in conversations of becoming, forgetting, remembering, and reinventing to ponder, or at times, complicate the notion of home and transitional states of place. Through considerations of how memory transitions each artist considers the formation or holding of memory and how it can be tied to domestic space and object. By revisiting, abstracting, or grasping onto memory in both physical and ephemeral states the conversations between the artists’ work contextualizes home as a holder of memory or a sieve for nostalgia. The title borrowed from the poet Mary Oliver references the constructs of containing memory, a vessel of memory being ‘the golden bowl’. Within the exhibition, ‘the golden bowl’ becomes synonymous to the shared acts of holding, creating, or placing memory.
a golden bowl Exhibition Response by Maya Humphries
Shazia Ahmad (she/her) is a half-Pakistani, half-Chilean painter and printmaker living in Brossard, Québec. Her work explores themes of home and belonging, reflecting on the broader concept of otherness shaped by her interfaith and mixed-race background.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at Chiguer art contemporain and Centre culturel Georges-Vanier (Montreal, 2025); Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (Edmonton, 2025); The Rooms (St. John’s, NL, 2023); Grenfell Art Gallery (Corner Brook, NL, 2024); Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2022), and Unit1 Gallery London (UK, 2022), among others. She is the recipient of several Canada Council for the Arts grants.
Vimeo: Shazia Ahmad
Website: shaziaahmadcrohare.com
Liz Bentley is a non-binary painter and photographer from Canmore, AB; they hold a BFA and MFA from the University of Victoria. Primarily working with acrylic, gouache and film; their practice examines the connection between memory, storytelling and domestic architecture. During their time in Victoria, they were a part of both solo and group shows at Xchanges Gallery, The Little Fernwood Gallery and the Audain Gallery. In 2025 they were a part of Thinking Outside the Box, at Trapdoor ARC in Lethbridge, AB.
Their paintings are constructed from memories, bringing recreations of past spaces into the present. In the same way that memories are often flawed and wobbly, so too are these stripped-down environments. Emotions, conversations and ghosts of objects are embodied with bright colors;all rendered organic and softly shaped. These paintings curate an experience that joins the past, present and explore the relationships between interior and exterior environments.
Rozhin Tayaraniyousefabadi is a visual artist from Iran and currently based in Saskatchewan. Prior to an MFA at the University of Regina she studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Working across painting, drawing, and collage, her practice folds references from personal archives, objects, and interior spaces to reimagine sites of habitation. Reflecting on changed and transitional spaces Tayaraniyousefabadi’s work offers layered processes and manifestations that engage stories and memories through arrangements as still life.
Instagram: rozhintayarani
Website: rozhintayarani.com
Born in Germany, Ulrike Veith lives and photographs in Saskatchewan, Canada. During her career, she has worked as a curator, educator, administrator, and writer. She has received grants from the German Academic Excha
nge Service, SK Arts, and the Canada Council. Her work is in the collection of SK Arts.
Instagram: ulrikeveith7
Website: ulrikeveith.ca
