Esther Vincent

ESTHER VINCENT

Esther Vincent is an artist and arts worker living in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong. Her primary modes of expression are photography, writing and design for theatre. Her garden is also a creative pursuit.

Esther has worked in the arts as a creator, mentor, technician and administrator and her work has allowed her to travel across Canada and the United States where she has enjoyed learning from artists and artsworkers from diverse communities and disciplines. Her photography has been featured in books, magazines, online and as visual components in a number of dance works including Weathering choreographed by Bill James.

She has many ideas and opinions, but often prefers to hear those of others.

You can see her photography at evmustang.ca

Banner Image: Supermoonrise, Digital photographic panorama, 2013

Earth Day 2021: Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth

Esther Vincent , Going Down To Jackson, 2015

Artweek Peterborough hosted The Jackson Creek Project in 2015 and invited artists to celebrate and explore Jackson Creek which runs through the centre of the city.

Jackson Creek is often under threat from development. It is repeatedly the subject of contention in an ongoing debate when the specter of a parkway development threatens to destroy the natural environment of Jackson Creek and Jackson Park, the most uninterrupted and extensive natural space within the city of Peterborough. Many Peterborough citizens regularly protest the proposals for this parkway.

In light of this threat to the creek and the park, I wanted to document the full length of the creek and the people who love it. I put out a call and was overwhelmed with positive response. Through August and September 2015, I photographed a total of seventy seven subjects at locations of their choosing.

The final video, with a soundtrack of the creek's moving water, is a document of the changeable and persistent nature of this body of water that moves through Peterborough, giving it life and acting as a perennial reminder of the land as it was before the city was built on its banks.

Work by Esther Vincent

"Cloud Over Town", Peterborough, Digital photograph, 2020

Boise Foothills Cabbie, Digital photograph, 2012

Cloud Over Douro, looking south from, County Road 4, Digital photograph, 2009

Cloud Moon Lake Wake, Digital photograph, 2020

Boise Foothills Parking, Digital photograph, 2012

Snow Clouds Over My Mother's House, Looking South-East, Digital photograph, 2009

"Power Lines, Mount Pleasant Rd Looking West", Digital photograph, 2009

EDITORIAL TEAM

CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITOR
Tariq Hassan Gordon

ASSISTANT COORDINATING EDITOR
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Matthew Dawkins, Tariq Hassan Gordon, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi, &  Jade Williamson

VIRTUAL TOURS
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Matthew Dawkins,  Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, &  Michelle Wilson,

PAST CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Charlotte Egan,, Mackenzie Smith, &  Jade Williamson

OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

This project is supported by the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program:

Thank you to our partners

E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.