Tag: Hamilton Ontario

Collage: The Group of 7 Billion

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The edgy Hamilton-based Group of 7 Billion just launched a website for its hundreds of collages, done with wry humour in vintage materials in recurring themes that include cats (lots of them), nudes and space images.  They’re sometimes Monty Python-esque and always recognizable.  This loose collective of friends  […]

Margaret Watkins: Domestic Symphonies

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Hamilton born photographer Margaret Watkins made her name in the 1920s as a commercial wunderkind.  She was a leader in making soap, cigarettes and other household objects attractive and desirable. Now, almost 100 of her once forgotten works are on exhibit in a retrospective at the National Gallery […]