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SATELLiTE Project Space is a partnership between London, Ontario, arts institutions: Fanshawe College and Western University

SATELLiTE Project Space is a dynamic partnership between three significant London, Ontario, arts institutions: Fanshawe College, Museum London, and Western University. The mandate of SATELLiTE is to provide a flexible space for new and temporary projects, collaborations, and experiments in the arts and culture. The three institutions collaborate in the planning of yearly programming and student in

volvement, and in the production of exhibitions. As a result, students and the public are introduced to a multiplicity of approaches to contemporary art and culture, exhibition curatorship, and programming in the arts. SATELLiTE Project Space provides learning opportunities and mentorship for arts students in London: in education, curatorial work, exhibition and event programming, and arts administration, and invites the larger community to experience and participate in these programs. SATELLiTE is a testing ground for new projects and partnerships, programs, residencies, art works and performances – by students, community members, curators, and professional artists.

12/23/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Abby Smith, “The Growth Mindset,” 2024, acrylic paint

“The Growth Mindset” was inspired by the pressure to always be improving (something most students know too well). I wanted to explore how the idea of “growth” can be both inspiring and exhausting. The woman in the piece looks calm and put-together, but the brown plants growing from her head show the intense focus on growth in society. In my art, I like portraits. And this was a way to add some deeper meaning and creativity to something fairly simple. For me, this piece connects to student life because it’s about pushing yourself, sometimes past your limits, and questioning whether that’s really what progress means. It’s about the pressure to grow and to improve. And how that can be both beautiful and also really exhausting.

Student Life was recently hosted at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space. You can see installation images and read the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio). We’ll continue to share artists’ spotlights and install photos through the break.

12/19/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Aaron Alfaro, “Alleyway,” 2025, acrylic on wooden board .kiid

I have always adored architecture, basically these behemoths that let people coexist in and around them, these artificial life forms are how I see buildings, from the cities to the most rural of places. I came to this country trying to grasp on better opportunities to pursue my love for art.

[M]y piece “Alleyway” stemmed from my homesickness and awareness that I am not in the same place as I was 3 years ago,physically and mentally. “Alleyway” is a conscious piece made romanticizing my origin and expressing my longing for my home country, the Philippines.

Just two more days to view Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space, which is up until 5PM December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio). We’ll continue to share artists’ spotlights and install photos through the break.

12/18/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Kim Crawford, “Still I Draw”

In winter’s skin, I walk - or wheel -
Through halls that echo youth’s ideal
A canvas heart, yet hands grown slow
But fire inside still dares to glow

Each brush stroke stutters every line.
A quiet protest, bold, defiant sign
My body bends, my brain misplays
But art gives shape to muddled days.

They see my age, my shifting gait
And wonder why I tempt this fate
They say it’s “cute”, or worse “a phase”
As if I’m wasting twilights blaze

They file their forms and count their costs
In board rooms where their souls get lost
To them, a sculpture has no worth
Unless it feeds financial mirth.

But I am pigment, mess and will
A trembling hand that sketches still,
A mind that leaps in colours wild
Neuro-spiced and undefiled

You’ll not find in ledger lines
Or profit graphs or grand designs
But in the charcoals breaking edge
In quiet truths a brush can pledge

For art is not a young man’s claim
Nor something built for praise of fame.
It is survival
It is breath
It is defiance dressed in depth

So let them scoff, let funding fade
I’ll craft with what the world forbade
In every crease and trembled flaw

Still I draw oh Still I draw
—
I am a second year Fine Art student at Fanshawe College. I started writing and drawing in 2001 and decided to attend college late in life after becoming medically retired in 2015 and spent the next ten years as care giver to my mother. Art is a soothing and invigorating world to be a part of, and helped me through many stages of my life. With all the changes and uncertainties in the art world, colleges, and the political environment — I feel a lot of anger and frustration. Writing poetry helps me express these feelings, and direct my emotions into a creative form.

View Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space until December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio).

12/17/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Olivia Matheuszik, “Friendship as The World Ends,” 2025, video

This piece reflects the pressure my generation feels as we try to imagine a future while fearing the world we are inheriting. The climate crisis and the lack of accessible environmental solutions often make that future feel fragile and uncertain.

Yet amid this fear, friendship becomes a source of strength. As Matt Hern and Am Johal suggest, solidarity forms not through formal commitments but through choosing to care for one another. These relationships create small, steady places of hope. This work shows how friendship can ground us, reminding us that we do not face the climate crisis alone, and that connection fuels resilience.

View Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space until December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio).

12/16/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Morley Howe, “Conformity,” 2025, pencil crayon

Conformity came from my own fixation on normalcy and my love of insects. The scene in this drawing is that of taxidermy in progress, the various insects not yet put in their perfect spot, their beauty about to be preserved forever. The centipede very clearly doesn’t belong, and no amount of ribbon on the taxidermist’s part will ever change that. A centipedeis a centipede, and will always be a centipede, and there is nothing wrong with that. Its beauty is different and that is what makes it wonderful. In life, and death, we are similar to insects as we are judged by what is visible. As humans we still have much to learn in regards to embracing those who are different, and as an artist that is something we are specially equipped to do

View Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space until December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio).

12/12/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Madisson Vanderberg, “Clear Skies Beyond the Garden,” 2025, acrylic on canvas .art

Madisson Vanderberg is a third-year Fanshawe student currently studying Fine Art. Madisson primarily works with acrylic paint, charcoal and ceramics, but also enjoys experimenting with mixed media. Her work focuses on themes of identity, neurodiversity, patterns, and nature. “Clear Skies Beyond the Garden” explores what it means to see the good beyond the current chaos and, at times, to find beauty in it. This piece is a self-portrait depicting her and her service dog, who has helped her greatly in the few years they have been a team. Madisson is interested in floriography, using flora in her work to develop personal iconography and symbolism that often pertains to her current sentiments while creating a body of work.

Art students are faced with the challenge of creating work that is true to them while meeting expectations. Uncertainty can leave some feeling stuck, tangled up by roots of doubt. At times the best way to move beyond creative stagnation is to keep making, focusing on the blue skies that lie ahead.

View Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space until December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio).

12/11/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Darby MacArthur, “A Letter of Resolution”

The prick of a needle is expected to puncture,
no matter how it is phrased.

You can brace for it, and it’s best to look away.
Some can even ignore it,
but puncture will cause pain.

I have more important things to worry about, than this blood test.
But I know the results won’t cure the weight in my chest.

And the results came back negative, another test to run.
Another needle, another puncture, with nowhere to run.
Do they know that they contribute to where it is from?

I’ve given up.

If I no longer seek the reason behind it,
I’m no longer consumed with how to fix it.

But I won’t forget my efforts,
or the time that was wasted,
so how could I ignore the pain that I am faced with-
or the fact that we’re related.

Love,
Your Daughter
—
I drew inspiration for this poem from my overlapping personal experiences with medical testing and generational trauma. With this, I aimed to explain the manifestation of chronic illness under the stress of witnessing, developing, and intercepting harmful, repetitive habits derived from such generational traumatic experiences. The poem is in the form of an addressed confessional piece, utilizing concise space and structure to accentuate parentification in the unintentional responsibility of resolving generational trauma. The blood test imagery is meant to symbolize the gradual, internalized pain and depletion of strength, much like the accumulating grief from continuous emotional disappointment. This poem emphasizes the common student experience, in indulging in education and coping mechanisms while gaining independence as a young adult, of realizing the limitations between personal growth and generational trauma or familial burdens.

View Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space until December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio).

12/10/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Kaitlyn Lunnie, “Sword Fight,” 2025, watercolour and pencil crayons

In my artistic practice, I like to be able to capture dynamic poses and combine my major of English and Literature to create scenes that could tell their own story. The Knight’s story connects to the theme of student life as young learners subjected to the harsh world and climate around them. The knights fight for their kingdom and who they believe would bring them closer to a greater world and leadership. Yet despite the pressure of war and political battles, they can find themselves away from that turmoil, shed free of their armour and the weight of the world, and be liberated and happy in the solitude and company of themselves. Much like how I find comfort and solitude when I am away and in the company of my friends and teammates.

View Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space until December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio).l

12/09/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Kendra Jackson, “Wendy Cope Orange,” 2025, acrylic on wood

Chilean-Canadian artist Kendra reflects student life through the still and mundane moments. Through “Wendy Cope Orange,” she reflects how love can be shown in the simplest of things and the beautiful nature that life has to offer. Kendra’s painting reflects the final line of the poem “The Orange” by Wendy Cope: “I love you. I’m glad I exist.” Kendra’s paintings perfectly summarize the love student life has to offer.

View Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space until December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio).

12/08/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Jessica Kumar, “A New Pattern Emerges,” 2025, acrylic paint on canvas

This piece began as a self-portrait in 2023 for a high school assignment, and has been collecting dust in my storage room. It never felt quite finished, so I decided to pick it up again and add some life to it. I didn’t pay much attention to it before, but it started becoming more meaningful the more I added to it. I always identified with the eye in this painting, the central awareness observing this landscape. Before it felt separate, but as I added this new pattern that sprouted from within, the eye became one with its surroundings as well as its witnesses, all of them merging into a singular experience.

My practice is sporadic; the brush moves me more than I move it. It seems to have a will of its own, and my sessions range anywhere from a minute to hours. The process is still something that is revealing itself to me, and it will evolve as I do.

This piece reflects on my experience as a college student quite well. When you start school, you are an awareness thrown into a new pattern, submerged in something you’ve never experienced before. But as you adjust to it, you learn to live with the pattern and slowly become it.

View Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space until December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio).

12/05/2025

Artist’s spotlight for Student Life: We All Have To Submit - Aarushi Gupta, “In My Room,” 2025, acrylic paint on canvas .gupta

My name is Aarushi Gupta, and I am a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in acrylic paint and digital media. My work often covers themes of South Asian diasporic experiences and university life.

“In My Room” draws from my experience of moving into a student home for the first time. I wanted to capture what it felt like to navigate change and growth within the confines of that space. Through this piece, I hope to communicate the student experience of coming of age in the first home away from home.

View Student Life at TAP Centre for Creativity’s Lab203 space until December 20th. View the full exhibition publication for Student Life on our website (link in bio)

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