This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
Images
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![An image of installation artwork inside the Thames Art Gallery. Glass fronted, antique style wooden cabinets display a range of beakers, test tubes, bags and other containers filled with plant and animal material. A table sits more in the foreground with some green plant material and empty bags. In the centre is a large bell jar filled with what looks like poplar or cottonwood fluff.]()
Seed Vault by Patricia Coates as part of the Herbaria exhibition at the Thames Art Gallery
Herbaria at Thames Art Gallery
In-person
Climate Action Drawing Film & video History & heritage Intercultural Interdisciplinary Nature & outdoors Printmaking Self-guided Visual arts TourDate and time
Location
Thames Art Gallery (Chatham Cultural Centre)
75 William Street North
Chatham, ON
Directions: Please use Murray Street entrance.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
Attendant will be available to answer questions
About
Herbaria is a group exhibition that reflects on humanity’s fragile and evolving relationship with plant life and the systems that shape our understanding of it. Rooted in Chatham-Kent’s agricultural legacy—from Indigenous practices and European homesteading to today’s industrial farming—this exhibition resonates with the region’s deep ecological history and the urgent challenges of food security and climate change. Bringing together diverse artistic perspectives, Herbaria invites viewers to consider how more organic, sustainable systems might emerge in response to these complex issues.
Organizer
Thames Art Gallery
At the Thames Art Gallery it is our mission to educate our community in the history, appreciation and practice of the visual arts by presenting exhibitions and related programming of a professional standard and local, regional and national significance.