Echoes Of The Flame: Art Inspired By The Lyrics Of The Tragically Hip – Dec 2 to 10, 2022 (Toronto)

Song-Word Art House are bringing their one-of-a-kind art exhibition, Echoes Of The Flame: Art Inspired By The Lyrics Of The Tragically Hip,  to Toronto following a successful two-month summer engagement in Muskoka. The fine art exhibit showcases an eighteen-piece collection of original artworks created by internationally acclaimed artists from Canada, Europe, and the United States, and will open on December 2 and run until December 10 only, at Gallery 1313, located in Toronto’s Queen St. West neighbourhood of Parkdale.

Produced in partnership with The Tragically Hip, Echoes Of The Flame includes a mixture of paintings, sculptures and mixed media artworks. The artworks curated for the exhibit have an epic feel to them, incorporating lyrics chosen from The Tragically Hip’s vast catalogue into the actual pieces of art, marrying the power of the written word with the beauty of the image. The 17x JUNO Award winning band and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees oversaw the artist selection process for the exhibition, ensuring that Canadian artists made up 75% of the roster including representation from Indigenous creators and French Canadians. 

Contributors to the exhibition include producer Daniel Lanois (Bob Dylan, Neil Young, U2), veteran Canadian musician Tom Wilson (Junkhouse, Lee Harvey Osmond), Toronto’s Peter Horvath, up-and-coming artist Dina Roudman and more. Fans of The Hip may also recognize the name of the Kingston based artist Simon Andrew, whose artwork graced the cover of the band’s 1994 album Day For Night. 

Of the exhibition, Toronto native and Song-Word Art House’s co-founder Joe Woolf sees the music-inspired collections he curates as “the fine art version of the tribute album”. 

Art lovers and fans will have a chance to view the entire eighteen-piece collection of fine art, including eight original artworks that remain available for purchase from December 2nd to 10th  at Gallery 1313. The week-long engagement will include a limited edition run of prints of each artwork in the 18-piece collection, capturing the celebration of this fine art tribute.

A portion of the revenue generated from the sale of the original artwork will be donated to the Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na language and cultural centre, located on a Mohawk reservation in Tyendinaga, ON. Funds will be used to help build a school dedicated to teaching students their Indigenous language.