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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> Bree Apperley,<i> Bouquet</i>, 2025. Digital photo. 45.7 x 61 cm.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> photo: courtesy of the Artist.</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Kamloops Art Gallery Presents
<span style="color:#680970">Bree Apperley:</span> <span style="color:#BDCF7E">Slug Eggs</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Exhibition // January 17 to May 2, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Opening Reception</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> //
S<span style="color:black">aturday, January 31, 6:30 to 8:00pm</span></span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Curated by Craig Willms<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Artist tackles
<span style="color:black">“the torturous inanity of house-flipping grey paint and cyber trucks.”</span></span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">In her new body of work,
<i>Slug Eggs</i>, Kelowna-based artist Bree Apperley explores the impact of technology on our society, feminine expression in a capitalist system, and what she sees as the compromised nature of modern life. Through a playful display of repurposed objects and
photographs, the ubiquitous white gallery plinth and typical framing devices are disrupted and reimagined.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Apperley’s interpretation of the world and aesthetic vision proposes an alternative to our current fraught cultural moment. Fueled by observations
of a rapidly changing world, <i>Slug Eggs</i> presents an array of materials and approaches in dialogue with what the artist terms “the torturous inanity of house-flipping grey paint and cyber trucks.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Common consumer and utilitarian items are repurposed and coupled with handmade items to form wall hangings and sculptures that mash up opposing means
of production. Some materials, including a cascading assemblage of CDs, suggest a nostalgic longing for technology of the past. Apperley's unexpected combination of materials introduces new meaning and asks the viewer to consider these objects anew, beyond
their intended function.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Bringing together eclectic materials that offer uncanny moments of discovery,<i> Slug Eggs</i> shifts us away from the disconnection inherent in digital
interfaces and prompts human and material connection.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Everyone is invited to celebrate the Kamloops Art Gallery’s winter exhibitions on
<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Saturday, January 31 from 6:30 to 8:00pm.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">At 6:30pm there will be a casual reception in the Studios and the Atrium with live music, an art making area, wine sponsored by Twisted
Spirits on 3rd, and beer sponsored by Bright Eye Brewing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Media Information
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Craig Willms, Curator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">250.377.2406<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">cwillmsa@kag.bc.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">About the Kamloops Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">The Kamloops Art Gallery, established in 1978, is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered 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
3,000 works of art.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 35 Light";color:#333F50;letter-spacing:1.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">101 – 465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 35 Light";color:#333F50;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 35 Light";color:#333F50;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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