Standing in front of an open door an adult wearing a mask gestures expressively with their arms.

Welcome

Plan your visit and check the current COVID-19 safety measures

Two dice sit on a sea-foam green background. One dice has simple line drawings of a house, a car and a sail boat. The other shows images of a cat, a bird and a dog.

The Colville Drawing Dice

A playful new way to connect with the art of Alex Colville

Inside a sketchbook, gold frames are empty, ready for drawings. A hand holds up the accordion book in a gallery with deep red walls filled with paintings in similar gold frames hung floor to ceiling.

Borrow an Art Kit

Try a mini-making activity inspired by the Salon Hanging exhibition

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Meet Jack Symonds, Colville House Curatorial Intern

Learn more about the exhibition No Place, Nowhere, curated as a part of Jack’s internship

A low white fence runs parallel to a driveway that leads to a two-storey Carpenter Gothic-style, white clapboard house with tall windows, a steeply pitched roof and a prominent cross-gable.

Visit Colville House

Visit the former home of Canadian artist Alex Colville, now a place to explore his life and work

Each section of an eight pointed star is made of red, yellow, orange and blue porcupine quills. Pink and white quills fill the remained of a circle on birchbark, within a woven exterior of sweetgrass.

Collection Highlight

New to the Owens Collection, Shining Star for Children, 2021 by Melissa Peter-Paul

Nantume Violet stands, smiling next to Buluma Mordecai seated. They are outside, in front of a large tree on a sunny day.

New Essay

Read Buluma Ochungo Mordecai (Class of ’62) by Nantume Violet online now

Two adults sit in arm chairs. Between them is a small table with a wooden display shelf that holds a selection of small publications. While one of them reads a publication, the other peruses the shelf. Behind them is a sign with text that reads "TEENY TINY ZINE LIBRARY".

Teeny Tiny Zine Library

Explore an ever-growing collection of zines, artists’ books and multiples, independent comics and handmade publications

Two hands hold a hard cover book open. The left is an image of a dense embroidered artwork. On the right is an essay on pink paper titled "Permanent Danger in Anna Torma's Art".

New Publication

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Anna Torma: Permanent Danger

Intern Alice leans in while cleaning an ornate gold frame with a small cotton swab.

Owens Conservation Lab

Find out more about how we care for the Owens Collection

Owens TV

Watch artist talks, interviews, behind-the-scenes videos and more from the Owens

In a gallery with high ceilings, framed paintings and works on paper are hung salon style against deep red walls. A plaster cast of the Venus de Milo is displayed on a wooden plinth in the corner of the room. In the centre of the room there is a wooden bench.

From the Vault

Explore a selection of featured works from the Owens Collection