Some peoples’ trash is other peoples’ treasure, its an old trope but as more and more waste piles up one does have to wonder what to do with all this seemingly worthless volume. Artist Sally Turlow sees value in what some people toss away and the thoughts are not just those of a thrifty mind but a mind which sees a multiplicity of options in objects. Its not just recycling or repurposing but a reimagining and a renewing of a relationship with the world we reap.

Sally’s latest exhibition, ‘Renewal’, employs filmstrips, mesh bags, scraps of antique fabrics which she has collected over decades and the many and varied objects which wash up on the shores of Lake Ontario which her home oversees. Her work is based in collage and found objects but there is also within it the idea of contemplation, a slow observation of the thing. The seeing adds value, it renews, its expresses the idea nothing is what it seems and the summary glance gathers no knowledge of what is seen.

‘Renewal’ is the product of the pause, and more and more we see the artist as the gatekeeper of time. Even as we are encouraged to click, click, click, scroll our way through life, it is the artist who is taking the time we have no time for, the artist who is saying there is more than meets the eye.

We have collectively stepped through the looking glass we hold in our palms and here on the other side it is the artist who is the navigator, who sees the possibilities in things in this topsy-turvy time we are in and Sally sees it too.

‘Renewal’ is on until April 18 2020. The opening reception is Mar 28 at 1 to 4 p.m.