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Installation view of the Northen Image Photographers Club Annual Exhibition, September 1 - 23, 2024
About
Located in the historic Margo Fournier Arts Centre, the John V. Hicks Gallery is managed and supported by the Prince Albert Arts Centre, the Prince Albert Council for the Arts and the Mann Art Gallery. The Hicks Gallery presents a diverse schedule of exhibitions by regional artists, guilds, and organizations, as well as touring exhibitions programmed through the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils. As the Hicks Gallery is the former location of the Mann Art Gallery, we are pleased to continue nurturing and developing the appreciation of excellent local and provincial art. Thanks to the support of the City of Prince Albert, SaskCulture, and Sask Lotteries.
Call for Submissions
Deadline: none, continuous throughout the year
The Hicks Gallery has one exhibition space and provides some professional technical services for the selected projects. Ten exhibitions are programmed annually, most for three-week runs. Artists are responsible for transporting their work to and from the gallery and must ensure the work is ready for presentation (e.g.: framed; outfitted with hanging hardware, etc.)
Solicited and unsolicited exhibition proposals are assessed and recommended for program inclusion by the Mann Art Gallery and the Prince Albert Council for the Arts. The John V. Hicks Gallery typically programs 1 - 2 years in advance.
Submission Guidelines
We encourage digital proposals that follow similar guidelines as for the Mann Art Gallery: digital proposals as a single PDF document via email with the subject heading: “Hicks Proposal:” reception@mannartgallery.ca. The PDF should not exceed 10MB, and includes the following:
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Project Description including installation requirements (max 500 words)
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Artist or Curatorial statement (max 500 words)
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Curriculum Vitae, name + complete contact information
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Up to 20 images of proposed or current work
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Video or Audio work as links (for audio and time-based proposals)
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Image list (including title, medium, date, and size)
Submit your proposal online or email to:
Winter & Spring Hours
Sep. - May
Mon-Thu: 9 am - 9 pm
Fri: 9 am - 5 pm
Sat : 10 am - 4:30 pm
Sun: closed
Summer Hours
May - Aug
Mon - Wed: 9 am - 5 pm
Thu: 9 am - 9 pm
Fri: 9 am - 5 pm
Sat: 10 am - 2 pm
Sun: closed
Closed on statutory holidays unless otherwise posted.
Contact
Margo Fournier Arts Centre
1010 Central Avenue, Prince Albert
Saskatchewan, Canada S6V 7P3
P. 306-953-4811
Submit Your Proposal Online
Current Exhibition
Randi Lalonde: Space to Surface
John V. Hicks Gallery
November 1 - 23, 2025
Opening Reception: Nov. 14th, 12PM
In Space to Surface, artist Randi Lalonde explores the quiet tension between representation and abstraction. Her works on paper and paintings strike a delicate balance, where legible images dissolve into fields of texture, colour, and gesture. Through her process, Lalonde conjures conversations between order and organic form, each surface treated with an almost artificial dew, as if the image might evaporate or transform at any moment.
Her practice unfolds slowly, like movement through space, an increase of pigment and matter over time. A tangible sense of rhythm and atmosphere anchors each work, inviting viewers to linger, to look closely and slowly. There is a meditative current running through her approach: no work is ever considered complete, but rather part of an ongoing dialogue with the landscapes and places that shape her.
Space to Surface exists in this in-between — between mark and meaning, between creation and environment — offering viewers a quiet space for contemplation and connection.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Omentum
Dates: Mon, Dec 1, 2025 to Fri, Jan 23, 2026
Omentum is a series of 10 paintings that touch on several of the major experiences faced by Indigenous people in this country within recent memory. These paintings, influenced by the works of both Norval Morrisseau and also Pablo Picasso, speak to some of the major struggles and triumphs that are part of our everyday life as Indigenous people, such as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Cultural Appropriation, the legacy of Residential Schools, the Rise and Honour of the Two-Spirited in the LGBTQ, the Return of Traditional Indigenous Tattooing, the Rise in Systemic Racism Online, and, of course, the Murder of Colten Boushie. John Brady McDonald is a Nehiyawak-Métis writer, artist, historian, musician, playwright, actor and activist born and raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation and the Mistawasis Nehiyawak. The great-great-great grandson of Chief Mistawasis of the Plains Cree, as well as the grandson of famed Métis leader Jim Brady, John’s writings and artwork have been displayed in various publications, private and permanent collections and galleries around the world, including the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
Past Exhibitions
Surface All The Way Through
Dates: Sat, Feb 1, 2025 to Sun, Feb 23, 2025
Surface All The Way Through is an exhibition of textile and text-based signs assembled from discarded plastic using hobby-craft techniques. It is an exploration of superficiality, distraction, reflection, containment, emotional blockages, consumerism, accumulation, and waste. The objects in this show are fabricated entirely of plastic: a material that I am endlessly attracted to for its shape-shifting mimicry and limitless supply of exciting surface qualities. As a toxic, uncontainable, and grossly over-produced material, it is also repulsive and surrounds me with dread and despair. It is between opposites that I have created these objects: working to both deflect and deal with my own conflicting attitudes in a time of vast uncertainty, inexpressible emotions, and constant horror. All materials in the show were rescued from their fate as discarded objects, collected either from my own personal consumption habits (packaging waste) or from the thrift store (craft supplies, projects, decorations).
Organized by OSAC and the Prince Albert Council for the Arts
Looking Through Time
An exhibition celebrating 50 years of artwork by George Glenn
Curated by Jesse Campbell with support from SK Arts
Dates: Sat, March 1st - April 23rd, 2025
Reception: Saturday March 1st, 1:30 PM
Exhibition website: LookingThroughTime.ca
In 1975, George Glenn rode the bus from Regina to Prince Albert. Fresh from his graduate studies in Cincinnati and a year in France, he was about to embark on an artist residency in north-central Saskatchewan. The residency was supported by the Saskatchewan Arts Board (now SK Arts) and was to be one year in length. After a warm welcome to Prince Albert by Margreet van Walsem, George grew to become a formative presence in the fine arts community. His one-year residency has stretched to five decades. In this time he has developed a distinct visual language, steeped in a contemplation of meaning created by the relationships between the objects, landscapes, and spaces in his life.
This exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, and installation pieces that George has created in the past 50 years. It shows not only the development in his thinking, but what has persisted in his practice: his inner sensitivity to beauty, space for the unseen, the nuanced conditions that affect ways of seeing, and the link between personal and global narratives. These considerations occur within the realm of experimentation, reflection, and observation in George’s studio. In Looking Through Time, the bits of memories from 50+ years that have forged a presence in George’s mind are expanded, arranged in the gallery to generate a new space of thinking.
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The artworks in this exhibition change on a weekly basis. Every Monday, new artworks will be installed in the gallery to show the connections and development throughout George’s practice.
Images of the artworks, installations, and corresponding texts can be viewed at LookingThroughTime.ca. The website will be updated weekly.
Image Credit: Tia Holash
Image Credit: Tia Holash
Image Credit: Tia Holash
Continuing the Conversation: Works by Connie Freedy
John V. Hicks Gallery
May 1 - June 23, 2025
Curated by Jesse Campbell
Connie Freedy’s painting reflects her immense love for the world and the joy found in her surroundings. Continuing the Conversation is an exhibition held in conjunction with In Conversation: An Exhibition of Works by Connie Freedy, on display at the Mann Art Gallery until June 21st, 2025. In both exhibitions, Connie’s unique artistic outlook is shared through a series of works that spans nearly 30 years of her practice, from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Imagery and concepts informed by a personal sense of place, the effects of globalization, and possibilities of respectful dialogue are present in both shows.
Image Credit: Tia Holash
Image Credit: Tia Holash
Image Credit: Tia Holash
Madeleine Greenway: Propagation
Dates: Tue, Jul 1, 2025 to Sat, Aug 23, 2025
Propagation explores the connections between plants, food, land, and people. Madeleine Greenway deftly combines drawing and printmaking to create lush portraits and still lives; each work treated with the same attention to detail manifesting as a character study for plants, family, and food.
Annual Northern Image Photographers Exhibition
Dates: September 1 - 23, 2025
Opening reception: Tuesday, September 9th at 7PM
The Northern Image Photographers Club is pleased to present its annual exhibition with this years theme as "Correspondence". This show comprises photographs submitted by club members and provides them with an opportunity to share their work with others.
Annual Studio 1010 Exhibition
Dates: October 1 - 23, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, October 4th at 1PM
Studio 1010 is a group of artists that meet every Monday afternoon to create artworks at the Margo Fournier Arts Centre. The name of the group comes from the address of the Arts Centre, 1010 Central Avenue. At the weekly gatherings, each artist works on their individual projects in a friendly and encouraging atmosphere. Ideas and approaches are shared to support one another in exploring new creative paths.