Mezzanine Gallery Wall, Reception Wall & Upper Wall
Creating Climate Resilience Project – Curator / Artist Sabrina Guzman
About the Artwork
As climate change increases in severity, many young people ages 15 – 30 years old around the world are navigating the emotional toll of current and forecasted impacts. This exhibition highlights the diverse voices of youth residing in Victoria and their experiences of climate anxiety, ecological grief and other mental health impacts of climate change. The artwork was created during programs ran in Fall 2023 and Spring 2025 that engaged youth in dialogue and visual artmaking to explore and express their climate emotions in a supportive space with peers.
About the Artist
Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky is a queer climate justice advocate, artist, researcher and facilitator residing on the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. She has been part of the climate movement since she was 15 years old and has worked and volunteered for environmental and social justice causes from coast to coast. She is a self-taught artist, primarily in abstract painting and mixed media, the majority of which explores environmental and mental health themes. Creating Climate Resilience is a community initiative developed by Sabrina through her Master’s research at the University of Victoria, aimed at increasing people's emotional resilience to climate change through knowledge mobilization, community-building and arts-based climate emotions workshops.
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Window Gallery
Evan Locke
About the Artwork
The work is a three-dimensional painting structure deployed within the window gallery space. The paint is applied in situ through the operation of the supporting structure –– transforming the application of paint to canvas into an unedited visual recording of process. The scale and operation of the work creates a figurative ship in a bottle that cannot be removed from the space in its completed form. The size and physical interaction with the architectural space as a limiting confine creates a site specific artifact of an event taken place.
About the Artist.
Evan Locke is a local Victoria artist who also works as a designer for an architectural firm. He studied at the University of Victoria, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honours in 2008 and Masters of Fine Art in Visual Arts in 2017. Active in the arts community, Evan is a board member with the non-profit arts society The Ministry of Casual Living as well as Open Space Arts Society. He has exhibited work across BC including solo exhibitions at Oxygen Arts Centre in Nelson BC, and as the 2021/2022 featured artist in Victoria's Commercial Alley Public Art Gallery.
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Accessibility: Accessible washrooms, Wheelchair access on main and second floor, and disabled parking stalls. Limited access to mezzanine and upper gallery spaces
For inquiries related to exhibitions, please contact Shantael Sleight at shantael.sleight@saanich.ca or call 778-584-3756