Nickle Galleries

My first time at the Nickle Galleries ????

The nickel galleries always have thought provoking work that takes up the space, encouraging you to move and explore with the work. The carpet makes it so you can't hear your footsteps, which takes you into the world of the artwork. The upstairs galleries offer amazing opportunities for smaller exhibitions. I love the staircase which let's me view the work below from another perspective. It takes the standard 5 seconds which people look at art and expands it as they explore and recognize something new about it. It's free to enter, they have free lockers to hold your bags and the shop is always full of lovely work to buy.

As an artist this is an amazing space and is definitely one of the better places to view contemporary art in calgary.

What a wonderful little gallery! It's free and as far as I can tell, does not have a permanent collection. I was fortunate enough to see the work of Lyndal Osborne, an australian who built wonderful sculptures and arrangements of found objects. Her arrangements expresses her apprehension of human encroachments on the natural environment, an apprehension that we can relate. Some of her arrangements are alien and familiar at the same time. They look like sea creatures or alien riparian vegetation. Really delighted on finding this gallery.