Three Way Mirror
Daniel Barrow, Glenn Gear, Paige Gratland
Residency
July 3, 2026 – August 7, 2026
Open Studio events
Saturday, July 18, 2026, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Saturday, August 1, 2026, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Workshop
Paper Doll Poems workshop with Daniel Barrow
Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 6:00pm
Free to attend, Registration required
Performance
Winnipeg Babysitter (2005-2023)
Written, Directed & Performed by Daniel Barrow
Saturday, August 1, 2026, at 7:00pm
90 minutes, multi-media presentation
Free to attend
images: (above) Glenn Gear, Ivaluk Ullugiallu (Sinew & Stars), 2023, mural on walls, red braided cord, video projection, sound, The Rooms, St. John’s, NL; (top right) Daniel Barrow, Three Way Mirror installation at grunt gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2022; (middle centre) Paige Gratland and Glenn Gear, Paperlace Weaving #5, 2022, Handwoven paper with seal skin, 8” x 8”; All images courtesy the artists
Oxygen Art Centre excitedly announces their summer residency program with artist collective, Three Way Mirror, from July 3, 2026, to August 7, 2026. Three Way Mirror is composed of artists Daniel Barrow (QC), Glenn Gear (QC), and Paige Gratland (BC).
The artists visit Nelson from Montréal and Vancouver for a six-week residency where they will develop their textile practices individually and collectively in what they call a craft ‘triangle’.
For artists who belong to a social group that has often been marginalized, it is unsurprising that they are drawn to similarly marginalized crafts, art forms that link the personal and the political.
Traditionally, a craft circle is a non-competitive circle of production where artists can create work and act on their concern for social justice. Three Way Mirror embraces this concept through a craft triangle where the artists create an intersectional queer space for textiles production and dialogue.
The public are invited to attend two informal open studio events during the residency period to engage with the artists and encounter works-in-progress. Open studio events are scheduled for Saturday, July 18, 2026, and Saturday, August 1, 2026, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Admission is free. Everyone welcome to attend.
images: (left) Paige Gratland, Installation of Pride for Introverts and Confetti Series, 2022, Handwoven cotton cloth, Photo, grunt gallery, Vancouver ; (right) Glenn Gear, Aninnik (Breath of Life): Animals in Motion, 2022, hand drawn animation, video projection, sealskins, paint on walls, Ociciwan Gallery ; (bottom) Daniel Barrow, Paperdoll Poems: Equilibriste Bouquet and Calla Lily Bouquet, 2022, hand-dyed and cut paper dolls pinned to screen-printed matboard, 40 x 32”; All images courtesy the artists
The residency will consider how traditional crafts can convey queer stories and community, and how queer signifiers and strategies can express intersectional identities through conceptual craft-based practices.
For each artist this has been a natural progression, resulting in the production of woven ueer colourways (Gratland), glitter-bombs sealskins (Gear) and paper-doll poems (Barrow).
The artist collective Three Way Mirror will be in residence at Oxygen Art Centre from July 3, 2026, to August 7, 2026. The gallery will be open to the public for two Open Studio events on Saturday, July 18, 2026, and Saturday, August 1, 2026, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Admission is free.
About the Artists
Daniel Barrow
Daniel Barrow is a genderfluid, Tiohtià:ke / Montreal-based storyteller/artist/filmmaker who has employed parallel strategies in their approach to the tradition of paper dolls – inventing “narrative architectures” and “paper doll poems” that grapple with the dollhouse/paper doll.
Glenn Gear
Glenn Gear is an Indigiqueer filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Inuit heritage currently living in Montréal. He is originally from Corner Brook Newfoundland and has family throughout Nunatsiavut. His practice is grounded in research creation shaped by Inuit and Indigenous ways of knowing – often employing the use of animation, photo archives, painting, beading, and work with traditional materials such as sealskin.
Paige Gratland
Paige Gratland is a visual artist and filmmaker producing projects and objects that engage with social history, design and craft practices. She learned to weave in 2019 at the Richmond Weavers and Spinners Guild and is currently completing the Master Weaver Program at Olds College. She is also 1/3 of the artist group Three Way Mirror with Daniel Barrow and Glenn Gear.
This program is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, the Vancouver Foundation, and the Regional District of Central Kootenay ReDi program. Special thanks to Dara van der Meulen for their support as Residency Coordinator (Canada Summer Jobs) and Kenton Doupe for their support as Gallery Preparator and Photographer.
Oxygen Art Centre is located at #3-320 Vernon Street along the alleyway behind Baker Street in Nelson, British Columbia. More information about how to access the facility can be found here or by contacting info@oxygenartcentre.org.