New Exhibit at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, As the Shoreline Disappears by Brad Copping

For Immediate Release
Minden, Ontario
Monday, July 13, 2026
4:00 PM
Release #26-66

Subject: New Exhibit at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, As the Shoreline Disappears by Brad Copping

We are pleased to welcome glass artist Brad Copping to the Agnes Jamieson Gallery.  His exhibit As the Shoreline Disappears will be on display July 23 to September 19, 2026. The opening reception and artist talk will take place on Saturday, July 25 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

As the Shoreline Disappears explores Copping’s experience as he navigates the aging of his parents and the ravages of Alzheimer’s, alongside a parallel examination of the losses humanity continues to inflict upon the natural world. He seeks to illuminate these losses through his work, with hope for the possibility of change.

Working from his home on the edge of the Canadian Shield—on the traditional Lands and Waters of the Chippewa and Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg, part of Treaty 20 and the Williams Treaty—Copping finds both muse and foil in this transitional landscape of stone, wood, and water. The resulting body of work embraces the understanding that we are not separate from the natural world.

Artist Biography

Copping’s practice has developed in two distinct directions. The first is grounded in the development and exhibition of sculpture and installation work. This work usually includes the use of glass and has transitioned from commercial galleries to public galleries as the work has increased in scale and complexity. The second direction is his functional blown and carved glass vessel series.

Copping was an Artist-in-Residence at the Canadian Canoe Museum. Through the work produced during this residency, he began to explore the history of Indigenous–settler relationships and to examine his own position within this legacy. A more recent project, Resource Room, a collaboration with Anishinaabe artist Alice Olsen Williams, was an immersive installation of blown glass, textile, sound and projection in the former King George Public School in Peterborough.

The Agnes Jamieson Gallery is a public gallery with year-round visual exhibitions of local and regional art. The Gallery is part of the Minden Hills Cultural Centre which also includes the Heritage Village & Nature Place Interpretive Centre. The Gallery is fully accessible. The Minden Hills Cultural Centre is located at 176 Bobcaygeon Road, Minden, Ontario and is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission by donation.

For questions regarding this exhibit, please call the Community Services Department at 705-286-1260 x 542. For more information, visit the Township of Minden Hills website at www.mindenhills.ca.

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Contact Information:
Shannon Kelly, Manager of Cultural Services
Township of Minden Hills
PO Box 359, 7 Milne Street
Minden, ON K0M 2K0
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