January 10 – February 7 2026
ARTSPACE, 78 Aylmer Street North, Peterborough
For opening hours, please visit Artspace’s website.
This collection of cyanotype works by artists Kelly Egan and Nevan Hinks is presented in collaboration with Artspace. The installation brings together photographic, filmic, performance, material and experimental practices. Independently, each artist addresses important issues often featured in ReFrame’s social and environmental justice programming. Together, they draw attention to a connection between these issues: shared solutions.
Solutions in justice work involve creating spaces of belonging. Within and around the documentaries ReFrame programs, creating community and communing with nature fosters shared responsibility, representation and meaningful impact. This installation explores the imbalance and undervaluing of women and of our shared planet. Connected through material engagement, the works hint at connections you’ll discover across the ReFrame lineup this year.
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FEMINA (FOR ANNA ATKINS)
35mm handcoated+handmade cyanotype gelatin emulsion, animated optical sound, 2016
This “quilt film” paying homage to pioneering female artists, was created using Atkins’ original cyanotype recipe, coating 35mm film, and exposing each filmstrip to sun. The images are a combination of botanical photograms like Atkins’ images and found footage that tells the story of a young girl tormented by a gang of bullies that, weaved together, produce a feminist narrative that questions malecentrism within the history of the photographic arts and sciences.
Kelly Egan (she/her) is an associate professor in Cultural Studies and Media Studies at Trent University whose work focuses on materiality and obsolescence, looking beyond hierarchical canonical and linear histories to probe new potentials for dead media.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts (2001) in Mass Communication from Carleton University, Master of Fine Arts (2006) in Film/Video from Bard College, a Certificate in Film Preservation from the Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman Museum (2012), and an MA (2003) and PhD (2013) in Communication and Culture from the York/TMU Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture.
Her award-winning experimental films have exhibited extensively nationally and internationally at festivals/venues including the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Cinematheque Quebecois, Pacific Cinematheque, TIFF Lightbox, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, George Eastman Museum, Anthology, Belvedere 21, Smart Museum of Art, Block Museum of Art, Northwest Film Centre, Antimatter Film Festival, PleasureDome, IMA Institut für Medienarchäologie, Foreman Art Gallery, Struts Gallery, Espace Virtuel, Factory Media Centre, Evans Contemporary, amongst others. She has lived and worked in Peterborough, Ontario since 2014.
HOW CAN WE SHARE THIS PLACE?
Photographic cyanotype on linen, 2025
An environmentally-conscious photographic process, these experimental cyanotype prints respond to the increasing fragility of global ecosystems shaped by human impact. Considering our connection through water, these images reflect on how our actions have transformed sustaining and biodiverse environments into spaces of potential harm. Hinks invites us to look closer, to see beauty, loss, and responsibility intertwined. The work holds us within tensions between image and object, life and death, thought and action, care and neglect, belonging and displacement.
These images were digitally layered by the artist to create the work commissioned for ReFrame Film Festival’s 2026 visual identity.
Nevan Hinks (she/her) is a white settler, currently living and working in the treaty territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishanaabeg. She is a recent graduate from the University of Guelph with a BAH in Studio Art (2023), and is currently a Trent MA student in Cultural Studies. Her practice exists at the intersection of printmaking and performance art. Hinks explores precarity, ephemerality and the life of objects through her work. Hinks is heavily influenced by her underlying feelings of environmental grief and dread. Notable exhibitions include: Thoughts Thunk, November – January, Zavitz Gallery (2023); Start Quote, End Quote, Lalani Jennings Commercial Gallery (2023); and All the things that used to be ‘here,’ Garden Commercial Gallery (2024). She recently was an artist in residence at A Position on Retreat, in Lake Cowichan, British Columbia (2024).