Richelle Forsey is an interdisciplinary process-based artist and writer. Through her practice she explores her interests in the materiality and boundaries of photography in the digital age, the culture of nature, and the beauty of entropy.
Richelle works with digital technologies such as drone cameras, scanners and imaging software and analogue processes like cyanotype and mordançage; and her outputs vacillate between interventions, exhibitions, and online presentations. Through her most recent project “desire lines” she examines the intersection of the sublime landscape and the urban environment and makes work exploring the evidence of the consequences of contemporary life.
Forsey’s work has been exhibited frequently in galleries and public spaces throughout Ontario including Gallery Stratford’s Art in the Trees and Gallery 44’s Production Gallery, as well collaboratively in Nuit Blanche (Toronto), the Contact Photography Festival (Toronto) and Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area. Richelle is a member of the URBEX photography collective TLR Club and is the Photography Technician in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph.
Exhibitions & Art Happenings
2025
Convergence, a juried exhibition at the Tom Thomson Gallery
October 18 – January 17, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday October 18, 2025 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
The Distance of Blue
The Wrong Biennale 7th Edition, (https://thewrong.org)
Nov.1, 2o25 – Mar.31, 2o26
Eyelevel X Nocturne ER 11 – biannual printed matter member’s art show
October 18, 2025
Ad Spaces at the Halifax, Woodside, and Alderney Ferry Terminals – Featuring: LEO, Nailah Moon, Richelle Forsey.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Landscape is Dead @ the Departures Lounge of the Region of Waterloo International Airport (YKF)
with Anna Gaby-Trotz
August 2025 – August 2027
155,578 @ Art Gallery of Guelph
May 22 – August 29
Opening Reception: May 22, 6:30pm
The Landscape is Dead @ CAFKA.25
with Anna Gaby-Trotz
June 7 – July 26, 2025
Opening June 7:
The rain remembers its life as sea / naakita f.k. // Willow River (Victoria) Park, 10-11am
Opening Forum // Kitchener City Hall, 12-2pm
Black Bunker // Syrus Marcus Ware // Gaukel Block, 3-5pm
Artist Party // Kultiq, 8pm onward
Insights 44th Juried Exhibition of Fine Arts @ The Wellington County Museum & Archives
Recipient of the Photography Award sponsored by Max and Maureen McIntyre
March 27 – May 25, 2025
Opening Gala: March 27
Walk with Jurors: April 12
2024
Si(gh)t[e] Lines @ Gallery 44 Production Gallery
with Ariyo, Carolyn Cheng & Peggy Taylor Reid
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 12, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
The Landscape is Dead @ Wyndham Arts 3rd Floor Gallery
with Anna Gaby-Trotz
125 Wyndham St. N, Guelph, ON
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14, 2-5 p.m.
www.TheLandscapeIsDead.com
2024 Insights 43rd Juried Exhibition of Fine Arts @ The Wellington County Museum & Archives
April 18 – June 30, 2024
Opening Gala: April 18
Walk with Jurors: April 20
Spring/Summer/Fall, Celebration of the Seasons @ The Greenroom at the Bookshelf Cinema, Guelph, ON
on-going
A rotating exhibition exploring iconic landscapes. Presented by Eric Allen Montgomery, ART@ebar independent curator.
A Community of Trees @ Embassy Cultural House
Curated by: Emmy Meredith, Curatorial Advisors: Ron Benner and Jamelie Hassan
Online Launch: March 1, 2024
2023
Urban Remains / Art in the Trees @ Gallery Stratford
December 3, 2022 – April 2, 2023
How to Draw a Tree
Sound walks in The Arboretum by Dawn Matheson & website / visuals by Richelle Forsey (shortlisted for the 2022 and 2023 Sound Walk September Awards)
visit: www.HowToDrawATree.ca
Celebration of the Seasons @ The Greenroom at the Bookshelf Cinema, Guelph, ON
on-going
A rotating exhibition exploring iconic landscapes. Presented by Eric Allen Montgomery, ART@ebar independent curator.
Improvising Communities: A Retrospective Exhibition @ IF2023
Massey Hall, University of Guelph
October 16–21, 2023
Blue – @ Gallery 44
Jul 14 – Jul 29, 2023
blue (formerly 365) is an annual member-run exhibition presenting a non-juried survey of artwork created by Gallery 44 members in the past year.
Opening Reception: Friday, July 14, 6:00 – 8:00 PM