Toronto artist turns Svalbard voyage into exhibition

Toronto artist Yael Brotman has built her exhibition Long Days of Awe on a 2025 voyage through the Svalbard archipelago and the Arctic Ocean, the Canadian Jewish News reported on 13 November. She travelled for three weeks aboard an expedition vessel as part of the Arctic Circle Residency, an annual programme for artists, scientists and educators.

Brotman said the ship sailed out of Svalbard to the North Greenland Sea, where it could moor on floating sheets of ice. She said the participants collected some of the plastic, rope and netting they found. The exhibition runs at the Smokestack Gallery in Hamilton, Ontario, from 20 November to 23 December.

Coverage: The Canadian Jewish News