Oxygen’s window project is entitled O2.
O2 is a window. O2 is Oxygen Art Centre’s off-site gallery.
CURRENT
28 March – 3 June 2026
Tracy Fillion
Gentle Resistance
Textile installation
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This ongoing project began with an interest in the intersection of design, sport, and feminism, and has evolved into a space to hold and transform growing internalized rage in response to widespread social, environmental, and human rights violations.
The boxing glove serves as a central form—both a symbol of conflict and a container for emotion. Constructed through the slow, deliberate process of hand weaving and textile assembly, the work holds a tension between method and feeling: a quiet, careful making that contrasts with an undercurrent of anger.
Colour operates as a counterbalance, asserting the necessity of seeking beauty, harmony, and resilience even in times of upheaval. The work does not resolve this tension, but instead makes space for its coexistence.
Using the death list as source material, paper flowers were created with help from members in this community to actively mourn the heartbreaking atrocity conducted by the Israeli regime. By creating art we are not only witnessing and sharing what is happening but transforming this pain into an artifact of remembrance. The paper flowers serve as an act of resistance; we refuse to be numb and look away.
This installation is an opportunity to honour each child who had a name, a dynamic beautiful life, and was unjustly killed. During this time when Valentine’s Day symbols bombard our consumer culture, let this also be a time of reflection, mourning, resistance and action: Boycott, Divest and Sanction.
ARTIST BIO:
Tracy Fillion is a textile artist whose practice integrates weaving, plant dyeing, and garment construction. Working with natural fibres and dyes, she creates textiles through slow, hands-on processes that foreground care for material and place. Her work intends to reflects on the social, political, and environmental conditions shaping the present moment, using textiles as a language to consider labour, care, and resilience while honouring traditions of making that connect people, land, and community.
In addition to her studio practice, Fillion teaches weaving at a local college and facilitates workshops in plant dyeing. She is also an active community member, volunteering on the boards of the Slocan Valley Threads Guild and the West Kootenay Fibreshed. Her work reflects an ongoing commitment to textiles as a site of resistance, ecological awareness, and thoughtful engagement with contemporary social and environmental realities.
@tracyhandwoven @we.are.stories
Image: Textile installation, Tracy Fillion, 2026; Courtesy the Artist
PAST
9 February – 25 March 2026
Rayya Liebich
ROSES OF REMEMBRANCE: Honouring 20,000+ children killed in Gaza
Paper flowers created from documented names of deceased children during the first six months of the genocide.
28 November 2025 – 16 January 2026
Bethany Pardoe
The Small Earth
Illustrations printed on paper
15 August – 21 October 2025
Michele Dupas
Alien Flora
Ceramics
26 June – 13 August 2025
Ojan Cromie, Michele Dupas, Craig Huff, Terry Huva, Martha Stokoe, Phaedra Urban
Facilitated by Emilie Leblanc-Kromberg
ArtSpeak
Group exhibition
13 April – 11 June 2025
Kalika Bowlby
Call and Response (2025)
Ceramics, natural materials installation
27 February – 16 April 2025
Anne Fromont
Life-Changing Love (2025)
Photograph prints
11 October – 13 November 2024
Jennifer Burke, Samonte Cruz, Bee Schroeder
Purple Pain (2021)
Felt, leather, mesh, paint, glass, brass, fine silver, gold, black onyx & found objects
“Purple Pain” music video – Outside the Box (Nelson & District Arts Council), 2022
9 August – 9 October 2024
Hannah DeBoer-Smith
Tubby Lady’s Terrarium
Clay, cardboard, polymer clay and a bunch of other junk
5 April – 3 June 2024
It Could Mean Everything
Artist: Tracy Fillion
Medium: Embroidery on linen
8 February – 3 April 2024
Why?
Artist: Marcus Dénommé
Medium: Mixed media (silkscreen print/collage) on stretched kitakata paper.
Dimensions: 25” X 30”
4 December 2023 – 8 February 2024
Ink & Moon Collective: Calendar Retrospective
Artists: Keiko Lee-Hem, Myra Rasmussen, Melissa Owen, Slava Doval, Carron Mulligan, Rayya Liebich, Gina Sanche, Katie Sawyer, Catherine McIntosh, Tammy Everts, Andrea Levin, Brandy Erin, Nikki Pelletier
17 November – 1 December 2023
WORM/HOLE: youth print exhibition
Artists: Lokina Comishin Kromberg, Gabby Asbell, Sylvie Thomas, Ella James, Seveyah Bilodeau, Katherine Wall, and Morgan Pesicka