Colour is...
This call is open to all artists residing in Canada. Artists are responsible for all costs related to getting accepted work to the gallery which is located in Blyth, Ontario. Works will be insured by the Gallery during the duration of the exhibition. A 30% commission is applied to works sold.
Colour is never just colour.
Colour is ancient and evolving. It is scientific and visceral. It is political, psychological, symbolic, and historical. From the first earth-based pigments made 40,000 years ago, to Newton’s prism experiments, to modern debates over ownership and trademark, colour has always been a site of discovery, invention, meaning, and power.
Colour can heal, energize, provoke, or confound. Red grabs attention and stirs energy; blue can calm or isolate. Indigo was once believed to soothe ailments. Colour affects us in ways both subtle and profound, influencing how we move through the world.
And yet, colour can also be feared, outlawed, controlled, and even fought over in courts of law. It unites and divides, liberates and restrains.
The Blyth Festival Art Gallery alongside curator Katherine Percival invites artists to submit work that explores these tensions and possibilities.
● What does colour mean to you—personally, politically, historically, or psychologically?
● How does its provenance, ownership, or cultural weight shape its impact?
● How do embodied responses and learned associations converge in your experience or practice?
● Where do history, power, legacy, and perception meet in the spectrum of colour?
Artists residing in Canada are welcome to submit up to 5 pieces of work for consideration.
Each Submission must include:
The deadline for submissions is May 10th, 2026, with the exhibit running August 15- September 13. Artists will be informed mid June after the jurying has taken place.
Submissions and questions can be sent to the curator of the exhibition at [email protected]
Colour is never just colour.
Colour is ancient and evolving. It is scientific and visceral. It is political, psychological, symbolic, and historical. From the first earth-based pigments made 40,000 years ago, to Newton’s prism experiments, to modern debates over ownership and trademark, colour has always been a site of discovery, invention, meaning, and power.
Colour can heal, energize, provoke, or confound. Red grabs attention and stirs energy; blue can calm or isolate. Indigo was once believed to soothe ailments. Colour affects us in ways both subtle and profound, influencing how we move through the world.
And yet, colour can also be feared, outlawed, controlled, and even fought over in courts of law. It unites and divides, liberates and restrains.
The Blyth Festival Art Gallery alongside curator Katherine Percival invites artists to submit work that explores these tensions and possibilities.
● What does colour mean to you—personally, politically, historically, or psychologically?
● How does its provenance, ownership, or cultural weight shape its impact?
● How do embodied responses and learned associations converge in your experience or practice?
● Where do history, power, legacy, and perception meet in the spectrum of colour?
Artists residing in Canada are welcome to submit up to 5 pieces of work for consideration.
Each Submission must include:
- High Resolution Images of the work being submitted
- Size, Medium and any Installation Requirements for the work
- An Artist Bio
- A short Artist Statement for each piece submitted
The deadline for submissions is May 10th, 2026, with the exhibit running August 15- September 13. Artists will be informed mid June after the jurying has taken place.
Submissions and questions can be sent to the curator of the exhibition at [email protected]
