The University of Victoria (UVic), in partnership with the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park (JRSP), is pleased to announce that Canadian artist, scholar and curator Aaron Richmond has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the University of Victoria and Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Artist-Scholar Residency.
Aaron Richmond’s practice situates in the intersection of visual art, architecture and performance studies. He holds a PhD in Art & Architectural History from McGill University, a Masters in Intellectual History from Cambridge University and a Masters in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art. Richmond holds an extensive record of awards and residencies and is currently an affiliated Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University.
During his time at the Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, Richmond will develop a body of work that moves, like a relay, from landscape-architectural drawings to the creation of lightweight temporary sculptures. With this work, Richmond hopes to engage the park’s sculptural environment as a living archive, while also treating it as a prompt for the continued exploration of material practices, ideas, and gestures. He is interested in art’s continued relevance as a space for experimentation and its dynamic interplay between graphic, formal, textual and performative modes of attention, and about the kinds of fleeting scenography suited to this moment of social and environmental uncertainty.
Following his upcoming 2026 Residency at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, Richmond will be the 2026-2027 Leonard A. Lauder Fellow in Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will be working on Cotyledons: A Catalogue of Exchanges between the Graphic and Performing Arts. The project asks: when does the mapping of a situation—whether in the form of an architectural projection, a conceptual schema, or a choreographic score—become an experimental prompt for bodies in motion? And what kinds of artworks or artifacts give evidence of this dynamic interplay between graphic form and performative play?
From July 5-26, 2026 Richmond will share his working process at the JRSP and offer limited select guided attentional walks for visitors of the Sculpture Park: an embodied on-site demonstration of the relays, prompts, and curiosities that animate it. The Park calendar events and programming can be followed at: www.rubinoffsculpturepark.org/visit
From November 17-20, 2026, Richmond will visit the University of Victoria campus, where he will be offering guest lectures, artist talks, workshop and studio visits to Fine Arts students, staff and faculty members. An exhibition of his works created will also be on display and open to the Victoria public in November- venue to be announced!
See his work at www.aaron-richmond.com
2026 Artist- Scholar Residency Recipient: Aaron Richmond
2025 Artist- Scholar Residency Recipient: Siobhan Humston
Inaugural JRSP Artist-Scholar Residency: Fall 2025
The University of Victoria (UVic), in partnership with the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park (JRSP), is pleased to announce that Canadian artist Siobhan Humston has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the University of Victoria and Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Artist-Scholar Residency for 2025-2026. During her time at the Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, she will develop new work combining themes involving music, synesthesia and humanity’s entanglement with the natural world.
“I hope to tie together the circles of music and visual art, drawing what I refer to in my relationship to the beauty and mystery of nature as ‘poetics of place’,” says Humston, who has an international practice. “This residency will also allow me to reconnect to this area of Canada, putting fuel to fire for my deep love for the Canadian west coast.”
Following an international call in late 2024, 57 people applied for the 6-week residency to be held annually at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, followed by a week at UVic. After her residency, Humston will present an exhibit of the work and offer a public talk in October 2025 at UVic [date to be announced].
“Jeffrey Rubinoff held that art was an existential necessity—an expression of mature conscience, evoking our innate sense of the sacred and the sublime. Far from diminishing individual conscience, such art elevates and inspires it,” says Karun Koernig, Curator of the Rubinoff Sculpture Park. “Humston’s work exemplifies this vision, quietly co-mingling distinct form-worlds—the natural and the human. In her hands, everyday materials sourced from the land sublimate into visual poetry. Particularly compelling for us was Humston’s ambition to integrate a soundscape into her residency, resonating deeply with Rubinoff’s profound connection to music.”
Humston’s art has been exhibited in over 70 solo and group exhibitions in commercial, artist-run and public galleries, and is held in private and corporate collections in England, Europe, Australia and North America. She is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship, a City of London arts bursary, Ontario Arts Council grants, a BC Arts Council education grant and, most recently, an Ontario Arts Council exhibition assistance grant for a 2024 solo exhibit. She has been featured on City TV Vancouver & Calgary, the Vancouver Sun and CBC Radio’s Arts Report.
Originally from London, Ontario, she graduated with a BFA in printmaking and painting from Crawford College of Art & Design in Cork, Ireland, followed by an MFA with a distinction in Art & Environment from Falmouth University in Cornwall, England. She then held a series of international artist residencies, including two years at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, England and a month at Hugo Burge Foundation at Marchmont Estate, Scotland. She returned to Canada to set up a studio on the shores of Lake Huron, where her ongoing research about the connection between environmental art, nature, spirituality and science culminated with a solo exhibit, In the Garden of Exquisite Unknown, at the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia, Ontario.
See her work at siobhanhumstonart.com or on Instagram @siobhanhumstonart or @siobhan.humston.artist.
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