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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Maura Doyle, Domestic Space/Time Travel, 2012, stoneware with underglaze, found objects, dimensions variable, Photo: John Healey, courtesy of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Maura Doyle:
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Dear Universe<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Exhibition September 13, 2025 to January 17, 2026</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>Dear Universe</i>, Tracing Two Decades of Maura Doyle’s Playful and Poetic Practice<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">The Kamloops Art Gallery presents
<i>Maura Doyle: Dear Universe</i>, tracing two decades of practice by the multidimensional artist Maura Doyle. The exhibition brings together sculpture, drawing, printed matter, video, and experimental writing, highlighting Doyle’s attention to the overlooked,
the inelegant, and the poetic possibilities embedded in everyday life.</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Early in her career, Doyle often resisted traditional gallery spaces, undertaking correspondence-based projects and peculiar tasks, including miniature mail-order catalogues
with collaborator Annie Dunning, attempts to build the world’s largest gumball, and ferrying a beaver-gnawed log through the Panama Canal. These works combined absurdist endeavors with conventional modes of circulation and presentation, such as documentation
and publishing, celebrating material exploration and play.</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Doyle began experimenting with clay during early motherhood, creating rough facsimiles of domestic objects in her kitchen. Hand-formed and wood-fired in open steel barrels,
her ceramic surfaces retain improvisational qualities and unique markings from experimental kiln processes. Across her practice, Doyle examines the relationship between inner and outer worlds, monumentalizing the irregular and elevating personal narratives
to the cosmic scale. The exhibition reflects on how we assign significance <a name="_Int_Q3tPxgXG">
in</a> our lives, while acknowledging both the brevity of human existence and the poetic possibilities of the everyday.</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Organized and circulated by the Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum (formerly SFU Galleries) and curated by Kimberly Phillips
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<b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Artist Biography</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Maura Doyle holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA from the University of Guelph. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally,
including at Central Art Garage (Ottawa), Pale Fire Projects (Vancouver), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Open Studio (Toronto), Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto), White Columns (New York), and Art Metropole (Toronto). Doyle’s work is held in public
and private collections, including the cities of Toronto, Vancouver, and Ottawa, Fidelity Investments, TD Bank Group, RBC, Ottawa Art Gallery, and Global Affairs Canada. She has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts
Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and is the recipient of the 2017 K.M. Hunter Award for Visual Art. She lives and works in Ottawa / Algonquin Anishinaabeg Aki.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people. The largest art gallery in Secwepemcúl</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">̓</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">ecw
(the Interior of British Columbia), the Gallery offers national caliber art experiences through a diverse range of accessible and affordable exhibitions, talks, tours, and studio-based programming for all ages and abilities, and boasts a collection of over
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