January 27 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Tuesday January 27, 2026
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
What are the “recipes” that make your family unique? Join artist Breanne Bradshaw for a workshop inspired by the immersive exhibition Linda Rotua Sormin: Uncertain Ground. The session begins with a guided exploration of the installation, followed by a hands-on watercolour painting and illustration workshop. Create your own book in the style of Pustaha—a traditional Batak manuscript filled with knowledge and ritual. Bring a story, tradition, or memory that makes your family special and turn it into a one-of-a-kind illustrated manuscript to take home.
About Breanne Bradshaw
Breanne Bradshaw is an GTA-born artist whose work emphasizes narrative illustration and graphic design. A graduate of Sheridan College, her art brings together her experience as a multiethnic queer individual with her interests in storytelling and culture. Her work is dedicated to encouraging herself and others to engage in community—whether it be cultural, political, or artistic.
About the Exhibition
Linda Rotua Sormin: Uncertain Ground is the culmination of over 20 years of remarkable exploration and innovation, bringing together clay, sculpture, video, sound, hand-cut watercolour painting, and digital fabrication in a multi-sensory environment that asks how life in the modern, cosmopolitan city can coexist with memories and experiences of our ancestral traditions.
The exhibition unfolds on three levels: a central raised platform evokes a volcanic lake with an underworld of mythical beasts and coded divination texts; a tangle of precarious ceramic sculptures suggests an earthly middle ground inhabited by humans; and a suspended projection screen references a celestial realm of spirits and birds. The result is an environment that feels alive and in motion, offering audiences an encounter that is both visceral and contemplative.
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