Robert Fones

"Natural Range of Canada Map", exhibited at the ECH in 1984. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Robert Fones is a visual artist based in Toronto, Ontario. He works in a variety of media including photography, sculpture, painting, photo-installation and watercolour. This image is of one of his woodblock prints from Robert's exhibit at the ECH in 1984. This work was acquired from the ECH exhibit for the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Please visit his website for more information.

CURATORIAL ADVISORS:  Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner
WEB DESIGN: Tariq Hassan Gordon & Jade Williamson
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Andreas Buchwaldt, Matthew Dawkins, Charlotte Egan, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi, Mackenzie Smith, Michelle Wilson, and Jade Williamson
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE 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

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.

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.

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