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an art exhibition
in the ruins
of st. anne's anglican church
270 gladstone ave.
aug 22 - sep 13, 2026
thursday - sunday 12 - 8pm
Presented by St. Anne’s Anglican Church, this art exhibition is the first public event presented inside the historic church since the devastating fire in 2024.
Where Walls Meet Sky, is a free, site-specific contemporary art exhibition curated by Rui Pimenta
(Art Spin), opening August 22 and runs through September 13, 2026, at St. Anne's Anglican Church
(270 Gladstone Avenue).
The fire-scarred interior becomes a place of reflection, gathering, and artistic exploration with works by Sacha Bassil, Sandra Brewster, Julia Campisi, John Dickson, Sofia Escobar, David Jensenius, Gareth Lichty, Eunice Luk, Roda Medhat, Noel Middleton, Mary Catherine Newcomb, and Max Streicher.
MEET THE ARTISTS...
Sacha Bassil
Flour Power Saj
Flour Power Saj is Sacha Bassil’s Toronto-based Lebanese food business specializing in traditional flatbreads and dips with a modern twist. Inspired by Lebanese recipes and the warmth of gathering around food, Flour Power Saj creates fresh, small-batch offerings using simple, high-quality ingredients.
Instagram: @flourpower_saj
Sofia Escobar
Multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the relationship between material, perception, and space. Working primarily with textiles, sculptural forms, and installation, her research-driven approach draws from architectural structures, optical phenomena, and embodied experience. Her work unfolds through slow, site-responsive processes that invite viewers into moments of tension, movement, and spatial awareness.
Instagram: @sofiaelenii
Sandra Brewster
Sandra Brewster works in drawing, video, photo-based works, and installation. She is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. She earned her BFA from York University and holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. Her work has been exhibited widely and is included in numerous private and public collections. Brewster is the recipient of the Gattuso Prize (CONTACT 2017), the Toronto Friends of Visual Arts Artist Prize (2018), and the Canada Council for the Arts' Photography Prize (2024). In the same year, she was awarded the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award, recognizing her sustained contributions to lens-based practices in Canada.
Instagram: @sabrewst
John Dickson
John Dickson is a Toronto-based artist whose mixed-media sculptures and installations explore humanity's tenuous relationship with the natural world. Early works investigated water as a sculptural medium, leading to the development of themes with underlying environmental concerns. He is particularly interested in working in non-gallery situations which has led to his involvement with collective projects such as NetherMind, and Persona Volare, and alternative venues such as the Tree Museum. Past projects include a series of permanent sculptural works for Downsview Park in Toronto, Frontier, a public commission for the West Toronto Railpath, Music Box for Toronto’s 2013 Nuit Blanche and COLD WAR at the AGO’s Young Gallery. He has shown internationally in the USA, France, the Czech Republic and Denmark.
Website: www.johndickson.ca
Gareth Lichty
Gareth Lichty (born London, Ontario; lives and works in Buffalo, NY) is a sculptor whose large-scale installations explore the internal and external architecture of space, working with flagging tape, construction fencing, and other industrial materials to create works that are simultaneously disorienting and precise. His past projects have engaged grain silos, gallery interiors, and public spaces across Europe, New Zealand, China, and North America. Lichty received his MFA from SUNY Buffalo and BFA from York University and has exhibited internationally for over two decades.
Instagram: @garethlichty
David Jensenius
David Jensenius is a composer and media artist whose work moves between sound, performance, installation, and public space. Working with collage, phonography, electronics, and custom software, he builds systems that listen back, writing the code that turns obsolete technologies and everyday encounters into sites of chance, intimacy, and emergent dialogue. Through playful transformations of conceptual and material systems, he develops problems worth having, engaging across scales and complexities both human and nonhuman. Jensenius performs and exhibits his work across Canada and internationally.
Website: https://github.com/djensenius
Eunice Luk
Eunice Luk’s spatial practice creates conditions for attunement, engagement and speculation, drawing attention to rhythms that operate at the periphery of human perception. Her sculptures and installations engage with material, environmental, human and non-human forces, situating her presence within these systems. Her work invites viewers into a shift in perspective from the anthropocentric to the ecocentric.
Instagram: @sloweditions
Noel Middleton
Noel Middleton is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes sculpture and installation. His work transforms familiar materials into immersive environments that explore perception, systems of knowledge, and the tension between the natural and constructed worlds. Middleton has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally, with solo exhibitions at NARWHAL Contemporary and Magic Pony, and has participated in exhibitions at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), RH Gallery (New York), The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and Art Spin.
Instagram: @noelmiddleton
Mary Catherine Newcomb
Mary Catherine Newcomb (1954–2025) was a Canadian sculptor and installation artist whose practice explored the intersections of biology, mythology, memory, and the natural world through richly imaginative, materially inventive works. A longtime member of the NetherMind collective, she created site-responsive installations that transformed unconventional spaces, including St. Anne’s Church, into evocative environments charged with wonder, humour, and quiet unease. Newcomb exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally, and her work is held in numerous public and private collections. She received grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the K.M. Hunter Foundation, and the Waterloo Region Arts Fund. Mary Catherine Newcomb passed away in 2026, leaving behind a remarkable body of work and an enduring legacy within Canada's contemporary art community.
Website: http://www.newcombalia.ca
Max Streicher
Max Streicher is a sculptor and installation artist residing in Toronto. Since 1989 he has worked extensively with inflatable technology in kinetic sculptures and installation works. He has shown in museums and public galleries across Canada and internationally. He has completed several international site-related projects in such places as Taichung, Taiwan, Aachen, Germany, Madrid, Spain and Mumbai, India. Streicher presented his work at the symposium “Take a Deep Breath” hosted by the Tate Modern, London in 2007. His kinetic inflatable works are in the collections of museums such as the Luftmuseum Amberg, in Germany, The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Albertina Museum, Vienna and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan.
Instagram: @maxstreicherart
Roda Medhat
Roda Medhat is a Kurdish-born artist based in Toronto, Canada working across sculpture, installation, public art, and moving images. His practice rebuilds cultural source material, including textiles, diagrams, archived objects, pop culture, and everyday forms, into structures made from light, metal, acrylic, and air. He is interested in the conditions in which the work can exist, power, pressure, support, access, and maintenance, and how those conditions shape what the work becomes.
His work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and Partners In Art. In 2023, he was the 401 Richmond Career Launcher Prize recipient, and in 2024 he received the CIBC C2 Art Prize. Roda holds a BFA from OCAD University. Film production at FAMU Film and Television School of Prague. MFA from the University of Guelph.
Instagram: @reallyroda
Julia Campisi
Julia Campisi is an artist-researcher whose practice explores themes of place, memory, and utility through our relationship to civic space. Using construction materials and motifs as stand-ins, she examines cultural systems, physical labour, and the structural logic embedded in the built environment. Working across sculpture, installation, and photography, her tactile, intuitive practice is informed by familial histories and an interest in how materials carry memory across time. Through her work, Campisi creates conditions for viewers to slow down and consider how surfaces become active sites where human action, material systems, and memory converge, revealing the forces that shape our shared environments.
Campisi holds a BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University and a H.B.A. from McMaster University and is currently completing her MFA at York University. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is held in private and public collections including the Ottawa Art Gallery and the Drake Hotel. She has participated in numerous national conferences and has received multiple grants and awards, including the Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create Grant and the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship, Masters.
Instagram: @juliacampisi
A note from the curator...
Where Walls Meet Sky emerges from and responds to a moment of profound transformation. Following the fire that destroyed St. Anne's Anglican Church in 2024, the building exists in a state of becoming, marked by loss, yet filled with possibility. This exhibition inhabits a space between what was and what may yet be, while also fulfilling a desire to reconnect with its community both religious and secular as it has long done.
The works in this exhibition explore themes of renewal, resilience, and memory, while the altered architecture of St. Anne's serves as both setting and collaborator. This church without a roof allows light, weather, and sky to enter the space, dissolving the boundary between inside and outside, poignantly serving as a symbol for that which cannot be contained.
Fire also plays a prominent part in this exhibition, both as a force of destruction and regeneration. Fire clears, reveals, and reshapes. It leaves behind traces of what once existed while creating the conditions for something new to emerge. The works gathered here respond to this paradox, reflecting on change not as an end, but as a continuous process of becoming.
Where Walls Meet Sky is an invitation to pause within that process, to consider how places carry memory, how communities endure, and how renewal often begins in the very moment when certainty gives way to openness.
Photos by Priam Thomas
- Rui Pimenta, Exhibition Curator
St. Anne's anglican church presents this project with support from our co-presenting partners
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