Time and Again
Susan Barton-Tait
Natalie Hunter
Corine van Hoeve
Time and Again brings together the work of Susan Barton-Tait, Natalie Hunter, and Corine van Hoeve in an exhibition of painting, sculpture, and installation that contemplates the passage of time, the liminal spaces in our built environments, and the psychology of stillness from three generational perspectives. From observational painting, paper casts, and photo-based glass and wood sculptures, Time and Again captures poetic encounters with materiality and the fluidity of time. Meditating on the physical and psychological spaces in which we dwell, Time and Again makes space for three women artists at different stages of their careers. Embodying processes of slow looking and quiet making, the work of Susan Barton-Tait, Natalie Hunter, and Corine van Hoeve speak to each other in compelling ways that encourage us to pause, linger, and be.
Storehouse Gallery, The Cotton Factory, Hamilton, ON
September, October, 2026
17+1 Chairs, Inside Out
17+1 Chairs, Inside Out is a sculptural installation exploring concepts of home, impermanence, fragility, repetition, and everyday life. Eighteen handmade paper chair sculptures accentuate chaos and unpredictability.
A children’s chair belonging to my maternal grandmother was used as an object to encase and trace, referencing the process, seriality, and labor inherent in its original creation as well as its ancestral connection. Using the chair as an inverted mold, I undertook a labour-intensive process of applying paper pulp to the chair. Layer by layer, I added pulp to capture a detailed surface trace of the chair. When the pulp dried into paper, it was peeled off and reconfigured into a three-dimensional form that mirrors the original chair maintaining volume but lacking weight and mass. I repeated this procedure again and again until I had made a series of ‘chairs’. The meticulous attention to materials and process, enabled the ‘chairs’ to become poetic gestures, serving as powerful symbols of home, and generational bonds. I aim to explore themes of labour, memory, and resilience – reaffirming the cultural significance of material and craft while offering a poetic reimagining of the environment that shapes our everyday lives.
photography by Natalie Hunter