Ken Kirby
		Against the vast and often desolate Artic landscape, stand imposing monolithic mountains as mute symbols of lost time and forgotten presence. There, set amidst the changing visages of climate, earth and sky, like recurring leitmotif, Ken Kirkby has rediscovered and exalted these ancient aboriginal symbols in stone known as "Inukshuks" ("in the shape of a man¨). Whether their purpose was religious, utilitarian or aesthetic, there is a undeniable mystic grandeur to these creations that bestows upon the surroundings a silence and haunting solitude. Seen from a distance, these works convey a heightened illusion of solid, counterpoised forms residing in a depth of space sometimes void or sometimes graced by the sweep and swelling of the elements... frozen like an image on film, timeless like a vivid reminiscence. Yet as we approach the boundary which is the canvas, we become aware of the wizardry played upon our senses by the brush and its gifted manipulation of paint.