Lure
June 6 – August 23, 2026
About The Exhibition
Jordan Bennett
Eric Allan Cameron
Eugene Isaac
Cindy Mochizuki
Carley Mullally
Couzyn van Heuvelen
The Gallery at Evergreen Arts is located next to Lafarge Lake, a human-made lake stocked regularly with rainbow trout, and near the Coquitlam River—ancestral home to salmon and stewarded by the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm First Nation. These surroundings tell a layered story. From dams to quarries, from salmon depletion to salmon restoration, these local waters teach us much about our shared histories and current realities. Lure draws inspiration from fishing practices in the Tri-Cities: a recreational and cultural activity shared by many community members, including newcomers, families and seniors.
Featuring artists with ties to the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, and the freshwater bodies that flow between, Lure explores fishing through a diverse selection of contemporary artworks.
Image: Couzyn van Heuvelen, Nitsik 8, 2018, aluminum, resin, steel, stainless steel, aircraft cable, paint. Courtesy of Fazakas Gallery.
Lure is generously supported by the Deux Mille Foundation.
About The Artist
Jordan Bennett is L’nu (Mi’kmaq) from Ktaqmkuk (Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland), based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS). Having a methodology deeply guided by the Land of his Ancestors, Bennett’s ongoing work lends itself to discussions regarding contemporary Indigenous realities within urban and rural communities.
Eric Allan Cameron is a Canadian painter whose work explores memory, ecological fragility and the interconnectedness of humanity and nature. By painting and sanding his canvases multiple times, Cameron creates atmospheric compositions that evoke nostalgia and poignancy for the world we are tragically unmaking while reflecting on nature’s resilience and our capacity to transform loss into renewal.
Eugene Isaac is an accomplished Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw carver, painter and artist born in Alert Bay, BC. At fifteen, he studied under the master Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw carver Beau Dick, who taught art at the Alert Bay High School. Isaac worked on three exhibits for Expo 86 in Vancouver and on a forty-foot totem pole for the city’s Stanley Park.
Eugene Isaac is an accomplished Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw carver, painter and artist born in Alert Bay, British Columbia, who studied under the master artists Mungo Martin, Henry Speck, and Beau Dick, among others. He grew up surrounded by the rich cultural and artistic traditions of Alert Bay and has been making traditional Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw art for most of his life.
Cindy Mochizuki is a Japanese Canadian multimedia artist based in Vancouver. She creates immersive installations, audio fiction, performance, animation, drawing and community-engaged projects. Her works explore the manifestation of story and its complex relationships to site-specificity, invisible histories, archives and memory work.
Carley Mullally is a textile artist and researcher currently based out of Nova Scotia. Their work focuses on the versatility of off-loom textile processes such as rope-making, knotting, crocheting and braiding, and explores the balance between machine technology and traditional analogue processes.
Couzyn van Heuvelen is a Canadian Inuk sculptor. His work explores Inuit culture and identity, new and old technologies and personal narratives. While rooted in the history and traditions of Inuit art, the work strays from established Inuit art-making methods and explores a range of fabrication processes.
