We Made This! Artist Talks with Red Head Gallery at 401 Richmond

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Presented in celebration of Ontario Culture Days 2025.

Three artist pioneers in the artist-led community come together for a casual conversation reflecting on their experience and looking at the future of artist empowered events: Lisa Neighbour, a founding member of Red Head Gallery and along with Carlo Cesta, they run “Beauty Supply” in their home – an “ad hoc” community gallery; Richard Mongiat, a founding member of LOOP gallery and a co-director of Collective City – a digital archive of artist-led activity in Toronto; with David McClyment interviewing them. McClyment is a current member of Red Head, and whose show, “then, there’s this…” will be on display in the gallery. Saturday, September 20, 3 to 4 pm. FREE.

Any artist who has ever been frustrated by the lack of opportunity for their artwork will want to be part of this.

Part of the ongoing celebrations in 2025 to mark Red Head Gallery’s 35th anniversary

What’s so important about “artist-led?” McClyment says:

“My compulsion to draw has never been about making money or attracting fame. Both come and go. But what is important is that getting my hands dirty makes me happy. Nor am I particularly good at doing what someone else – like a dealer, curator or buyer- tells me to do. “Artist-empowered” just feels right. I started my exhibiting career with a Toronto co-op, Workscene, now gone. In becoming a recent member of Red Head Gallery I feel like I have come home.”

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The Red Head Gallery

The Red Head Gallery is a professional artists’ collective committed to exhibiting the work of established and emerging artists and to encourage work that is critically engaged within a wide range of contemporary discourse.

Red Head artists create images and objects, manipulate spaces both theoretical and physical, participate in and organize events, and seek out opportunities to interact with other arts organizations locally, nationally, and internationally. Member artists have made The Red Head Gallery a continually evolving success and a place where significant careers are nurtured and sustained. Red Head artists, both past and present, maintain a high profile and consistently attract critical attention. The gallery's exhibitions have been highlighted and reviewed in noted newspapers, national and international art magazines and journals, on television, and in critically engaged blogs and web art sites.