Visit the Redeemer Art Gallery for this year’s senior art exhibition. Experience art in various styles and mediums created by Redeemer art students in their final year. 

This year’s exhibit will showcase the tension between struggle and God’s redemption through spiritual journeys, intertwining each story into one show. 

The gallery will be hosting an opening reception on Saturday March 28 from 7 – 10 pm. Celebrate the students’ work, enjoy some refreshments and hear short messages from the artists.

The exhibit will run from March 28 to May 27, 2026.

Artists:

Reese Bartels presents one large figurative painting that explores the idea of biblical rest as a joyful, lived experience. It celebrates warmth and connection using imagery that conveys comfort, love, and presence. She aims to invite viewers to pause, reflect, and feel the gentle joy that rest can bring, and to consider what biblical rest might look like in their own lives.

Ruth Ann Bos is creating large collages that exude her deep joy found in Christ. Painting Japanese paper with vibrant colours, she then cuts out playful shapes and creates compositions that embrace childlikeness and imagination.

Melia Cooper
How is it possible to fit all the thoughts, images, and feelings of a place into a simple card? Through oil paintings on envelopes, Melia’s project encapsulates the feelings of living overseas and the difficult process of moving from home to home, without losing the sense of identity that different places bring and leave behind. The open envelopes act as windows into each place Melia has lived over the years, and the stamps are snippets leading up to the bigger picture. 

Jenna Dekker is creating a life-sized labyrinth that invites viewers to walk a contemplative path, extending the inward practice of prayer into an outward expression. Draped fabric surrounds the space, embodying the glory and mercy of God as both protective and enveloping, creating an atmosphere of intimacy and reassurance. By engaging with the installation, viewers enact the rhythm of prayer – moving, pausing, surrendering, and trusting that God hears them. 

Kanesha Esh
Rooted in the poetry of the Beatitudes, my work moves through acrylic illustrations, fineline drawing, and fibre art to trace the quiet holiness found in nature’s cycles of growth and decay. I create spaces where mourning and vitality coexist — where threads, beaches, and intricacies hold both grief and breath, honouring the tenderness of human life. Through layered textures and organic forms, I gesture toward the promise of God’s coming world, where the sorrow is both erased and transformed into a new hope.

Hannah Goddard’s quilt-adorned beds, cut out of wood panel, portray specific moments in her life that are intertwined with joy and sorrow. Flickers of comfort are reflected in the patterned quilts and the restful place of a bed. Bold colours, graphic lines, and juxtaposed elements represent the related nature of joy and sorrow. 

Gracie Menger is making a series of abstracted watercolours that reference both natural rhythms and church architecture. We might experience God in both settings – as Gothic arches are designed to mimic a forest canopy. While the work conveys the tension between human culture and God’s handiwork, the paintings reveal both dissonance and harmony.