Undergrowth is a group exhibition that blends ecologies, fictions, and the poetics of transmission.

Across media including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, textiles, and animation, the works follow meaning as it adapts to its surroundings—attaching, mutating, and taking root in new forms. They explore cycles of growth and decay, tracing how matter and metaphor morph and propagate through natural, technological, and social systems. 

The exhibition forms a dense and shifting environment, shaped by meandering paths where connections can accumulate and unravel. Textures pulse, signals loop and cross, and materials converse and entwine. Together, the works build networks between memory and becoming, bodies and environments, and stories and systems.  Undergrowth invites us to notice how ideas cling and scatter, how meaning can lie dormant and reemerge, and to imagine what might bloom next. 

Undergrowth features work by Aleya Michaud, Alexis Bulman, Amy Ash, Emilie Grace Lavoie, Hailey Guzik, Melcolm Beaulieu, KC Wilcox, Maggie J. Whitten Henry, and Sarah Noonan—emerging artists from across Atlantic Canada. The exhibition is curated by Christiana Myers for the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, with support from the RBC Foundation.

Christiana Myers’s Bio

Christiana Myers is a curator, writer, educator, artist, and arts policy worker based in Menagoesg (Saint John, New Brunswick). Her interdisciplinary and research-driven practice often engages with physical, environmental, and institutional systems. Christiana holds a BFA from Mount Allison University and an MLitt in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) from the Glasgow School of Art. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art History at the University of Glasgow, researching contagion-coded metaphor in contemporary artistic and curatorial practice.

Featured image: Hailey Guzik, alter_florescence, 2024, computer generated animation / immersive projection