css gallery


Granville Island Works - The People that make Granville Island

What's New?

The Insider's Guide to What's New on Granville Island!





  • ZenHouse Media: Community sponsor of the Granville Island Works Project
Granville Island Gazette

Granville Island Gazette

Our friends Vik and Alisha run this local blog providing you with an intimate insider's guide to the Granville Island Experience. Visit the Granville Island Gazette for weekly articles on delicious culinary experiences, Island gift guides, artisan encounters and more.

Exhibition: “At the End of the Day” At Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery

April 10, 2012

itle of exhibit: “At the End of the Day” Artist: Audrey Wang “These mixed media prints involving intaglio, lithograph and drawing were made over the past three years as a reflection on Vancouver’s search for identity through it’s perpetually changing living spaces.” Join Us anytime From: Dates of show: April 4 - April 29, 2012 Opening: 6:00 [...]

BIMPE VII is open for entry and calling for submissions.

February 16, 2012

    BIMPE VII is open for entry and calling for submissions. Artists can enter online or by filling out a paper entry form attached to this email. Artists with inquires can write us at info@newleafeditions.com

Vinyl Vaudeville, a Dinner Theatre, Cabaret and swingin’ Dance Soiree taking place on Granville Island.

February 10, 2012

Filed under: Art on Granville Island,Island Events,Island News — admin @ 9:38 pm

Vinyl Vaudeville hearkens back to earlier times, when people had to leave their homes for entertainment.  The show is designed to be stunningly visual in an intimate theatre, where everyone will be engaged by the magic of live Circus. The production features cirque performers, dancers, and comedic actors all backed by an acoustic swing band. It is [...]

Seedlings of Hope by Sherry Cooper

January 30, 2012

Filed under: Art on Granville Island,Island Events — admin @ 7:22 pm

Tonight is the opening reception for Sherry Cooper’s new series of narrative paintings — Seedlings of Hope on Gambier Island. Come meet the artist at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island, from 7:30 — 9:00 this evening. The show will be running until February 27 so don’t miss out! Check out www.artforcecollections.com for more info!

Amazing new Art Exhibit “Relational Spaces” on Granville Island

January 3, 2012

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” With these words, Winston Churchill concisely described the two-way relationship between human beings and architecture. Three Vancouver artists are sharing one gallery space to put forward their individual interpretations of this dynamic. Relational Spaces is the title of an exhibition taking place from January 11 to February [...]

Muybridge in Motion

November 3, 2011

  Opening Reception: Thursday, November 3 from 5-8 pm New work by Andrea Taylor “Moving Muybridge” waterless lithographs and etchings Eleven fine art prints in the show are painterly lithographs Andrea has recently made based on the 1880’s stop motion human locomotion photos of Eadweard Muybridge Ascending Incline. In this particular series Muybridge uses himself [...]

New Exhibit at Dundarave Print Workshop!

October 6, 2011

Filed under: Art on Granville Island,Island Events — admin @ 10:43 pm

Intersecting Terrain is an exhibition that explores human imposition upon the environment. Both artists employ traditional landscape techniques with juxtaposition to establish the dialogue of their imagery. Techniques include traditional copper etching, digital printing, screening on canvas to layered digital decals on plexiglass. Daemon Baldwin explores human structure introduced upon the landscape from the patterning [...]

Intersecting Terrain

September 21, 2011

Intersecting Terrain is an exhibition that explores human imposition upon the environment. Both artists employ traditional landscape techniques with juxtaposition to establish the dialogue of their imagery. Techniques include traditional copper etching, digital printing, screening on canvas to layered digital decals on plexiglass. Daemon Baldwin explores human structure introduced upon the landscape from the patterning [...]

Go Lesley! GI Artist Exhibits with Gordon Smith

August 3, 2011

Filed under: Art on Granville Island,Island News — admin @ 7:08 pm

West Vancouver artist Gordon Smith and his late wife Marion collected a diversity of artworks from leading Canadian artists over their decades-long immersion in the Canadian art world. Many artists are featured in this exhibition, including one of Granville Island’s favourite emerging artists, Lesley Anderson! Lesley Anderson is an artist living and working in Vancouver. [...]

Oldest Artist-Run Print Studio in Western Canada Turns 40!

May 18, 2011

Filed under: Art on Granville Island,Island Events,Island News — admin @ 7:25 pm

Dundarave Print Workshop celebrates 40 years of Printmaking and the many artists, including co-founder B.C. Binning, that have made art at Dundarave’s Granville Island cooperative Print workshop & Gallery with a juried exhibition that will show it all. Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery on Granville Island in Vancouver, BC is 40 years old this year [...]

New Exhibit on at Dundarave Print Workshop!

April 28, 2011

Filed under: Art on Granville Island — admin @ 5:09 pm

The Parable of the Flying Cow and Other Fabricated Stories Name of contributing artist:  Vahid Dastpak This is an exhibition of etchings by Vahid Dastpak. Vahid is a Vancouver-based artist and printmaker and has shown his work both locally and internationally. His enigmatic and symbolic presentations of familiar and yet strange places and narratives attempt [...]

A Corporeal Affair

April 4, 2011

Where: Dundarave Print Workshop & Gallery When:  March 28 – April 30th What: Art exhibition A Corporeal Affair is collaboration between Sabina Sutherland and Mikolaj Smolinski. Their work features themes of transformation, animism, and intellect. Comments on the Art Practice itself through the exploration of varied print media. Nick Smolinski artist statement: “My work investigates [...]

News from Michael Dean Jewellery Design!

March 29, 2011

Filed under: Art on Granville Island,Island News — admin @ 10:36 pm

Fifth Anniversary and A New Look for Michael Dean Jewellery, Now Featuring 10 Canadian Jewellery Designers Canadian Award winning Jeweller Michael Dean is celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Michael Dean Jewellery on Granville Island!  Michael Dean continues to do what he does best, hand-made jewellery using gold, platinum and silver, which feature diamonds, gemstones and [...]

Trees, Totems and Transformation

February 17, 2011

Filed under: Art on Granville Island,Island Events,Island News — admin @ 11:19 pm

Starts Friday, February 25, 2011 – 10:00am Ends Sunday, February 27, 2011 – 6:00pm Starting February 25, Granville Island will be showcasing a new exhibition entitled: Trees, Totems and Transformation.  This exhibition is featuring the work of i.e. creative artists Cheryl Hamilton and Michael Vandermeer and Haida carver Clarence Mills. These inspiring artists both articulate [...]

Valentine’s Day on Granville Island

February 16, 2011

Filed under: Art on Granville Island,Island Events,Island News — admin @ 10:24 pm

Creativity flows on the Island with hearts to follow. To help people get in the spirit of Valentine’s Day Jasna Sokolovic had people following their hearts with her project called ‘Finders-Keepers”, inspired by a nine-year-old’s vernacular. This fun project launched on February 11th with up to 200 ceramic dispersed across Granville Island, and in the [...]


Community Log-In