17 Dec - 14 Jan 2026 | Vancouver Arts Centre
The Art Way invites you to explore art as a space for reflection, emotion, and connection.
Featuring works by Vancouver Arts Centre artists, the exhibition highlights creativity as a way to express feeling, shift perspective, and bring people together.
Through painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media, The Art Way shows art as an experience—one that inspires insight, healing, and shared understanding.
Discover how creativity connects us and deepens our sense of being.
Artwork by Terence Podmore ‘Clay Cottage’, oil on stretched canvas
Mon - Fri 10-4pm
Sat 10-2pm
a WARM FOREIGN LAND | Young Choi
22 Jan - 12 Feb 2026 | Vancouver Arts Centre
I spent thirty years living in Korea. I grew up in a place where it felt as if you had to move quickly just to avoid falling behind, where getting through each day could feel like a small competition.
It was not simply a matter of good or bad, but I found myself slowly worn out by that constant sense of competition and began to wonder what it might be like to live somewhere else.
The first place I stayed for a long time outside of Korea was Australia. As I watched strangers on the street exchange warm greetings, and saw relaxed people filling the benches along the river, I began to sense that days here flowed at an entirely different pace.
At first, everything felt unfamiliar: the language, the seasons, the colour of the light, even the trees and animals that appeared so casually along the roadside. But as I kept carrying my camera and recording my time here, I realised, only later, that I was drawn to similar scenes in both countries. Even when the location changed, the emotions I held on to and the way I looked at the world did not change very much. In the end, I was searching for the same stories, repeated in different landscapes.
In this exhibition, photographs taken in Korea and Australia hang on two facing walls. The Australian photographs are printed in a vertical format, the Korean photographs in a horizontal format, so that they stand across from one another like pairs of images. When a viewer looks at a scene from Australia on one wall, a scene from Korea appears to respond from the opposite side. I am a Korean artist who remains a foreigner in Australia, and many of the people who visit this exhibition will be Australians who, standing before the Korean photographs, become foreigners there. The gallery becomes a space where two “foreign lands” face each other.
A Warm Foreign Land gathers moments in which these two different places reflect one another and begin to look alike. Moving back and forth between images of Korea and Australia, I hope viewers will sense, at least once, an unexpected familiarity and warmth between the place where their own daily life unfolds and a distant elsewhere.
Mon - Fri 10-4pm
Sat 10-2pm