Summer Launch Party

MOTHERGROUND: Dominique Rey with Madeleine & Auguste Coar
MOTHERGROUND explores the creative and emotional shifts of motherhood through Dominique Rey’s photography, collage, sculpture, and video work. In three thematic chapters, the artist’s work reveals how everyday gestures between mother and child become powerful moments of connection, tension, and transformation.

Amanda McCavour: Double Shadow
Textile and embroidery artist Amanda McCavour transforms thread into airy, lace-like forms that seem to hover in space. Double Shadow brings together over 400 stitched elements from the artist’s Black and White Studies series; each one gently suspended from the wall and alive with shifting light and shadow.

Snapshots of Us
Snapshots of Us opens a window into the raw and tender realities of family life, offering glimpses of joy, struggle, and strength in the earliest chapters of parenthood through photographs, personal objects, and words from new parents across London.

Biscuits and Empire: Reframing Colonial Photography
Biscuits, photographs, and popular culture converge in an installation that traces unexpected links between everyday objects and imperial histories. Colonial images of British India from Museum London’s collection reveal how industry, photography, and power once travelled together, while Zinnia Naqvi’s work Heart-shaped Box offers an intimate counterpoint grounded in self-representation and lived experience.

Ron Benner: As the Crow Flies
Now in its 21st year at Museum London, As the Crow Flies is an outdoor installation featuring an elliptical pond encircled by lush vegetation, carefully cultivated by the artist each year since 2005. Rising from the pond are 22 black-and-white photographs depicting landmarks, monuments, structures, and industrial remnants along the 81.14th meridian, stretching south from Benner’s home in London, ON.

Plus, check out Justin Broadbent’s mural Broken Window, on display in our Centre at the Forks for a limited time!

DJ Harina \ 7:00 – 9:00 PM
DJ Harina of OA(SIS) will get the evening started, curating a vibrant mix of high energy music.

Photo Embroidery: A stitch in time \ 7:00 – 9:30 PM
Join us in the studio and choose from a curated collection of photographs from Museum London’s archives. Each one of these images captures a memorable moment in time and connects to our latest exhibitions. Using a variety of sewing supplies, stitch and embroider your chosen image into something uniquely your own.

Artist-led Tour of MOTHERGROUND \ 7:15 – 7:45 PM
Join a guided tour of our newest exhibition, MOTHERGROUND, led by exhibiting artist Dominique Rey and exhibition curator Dr. Riva Symko. Learn about how the exhibition came together and uncover its key themes.

Remarks \ 8:00 PM

Meet the Co-Curators: Danielle Longfield and Amber Lloydlangston \ 8:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Join Snapshots of Us co-curators in the Interior Gallery for an intimate meet-and-greet to hear how the exhibition came to be, the collaborative methods that shaped it, and the insights they gained along the way.

Daisy Chain \ 9:00 – 9:30 PM
London-based duo Lola (Thunder Queens) and Neave (Radio Blue) reimagine the indie, alternative, and rock songs they grew up on through acoustic arrangements and rich vocal harmonies. The pair brings fresh perspective and emotional depth to the music that has shaped them.