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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, November 6, 2015 | 24 Artscene Exhibit explores life and art of Egyptologist Amice Calverley by John Bkila Oakville Beaver Staff "Connected to your Community" Over her lifetime, the late Amice Calverley worked as an artist, nurse, musician and art collector. The Oakvillian's artefacts, artwork and music have had a permanent home at Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, founded by her niece Sybil Rampen. Having worked on her aunt's story and collection for more than five decades, Rampen is unveiling an exhibit this weekend, Amice Calverley: A Legend and Legacy, dedicated to Calverley. "Putting together this exhibition, I have realized that Amice was my model for Joshua Creek," said Rampen, who is also the president of the 1086 Burnhampthorpe Rd. E. art centre. "She continues to be a large part of my life. For both of us, the treasuring of memories of yesterday and the appreciation of the now are the springboard for tomorrow." The exhibition opens tomorrow (Saturday), with a reception Sunday (Nov. 8) from 2-5 p.m., and will remain on display until Jan. 10, 2016. During the opening reception, opera singer Tessa Laengert will lead a tea party performance of music written by Calverley, in the art centre's gallery. The exhibit explores the life and art of Calverley, an Egyptologist who lived from 1896-1959 and painted reliefs of the Seti I temple. Also on display will be collected relics from ancient Egypt, photographs and artefacts. According to Rampen, Calverley started her career as a composer at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, but Putting together this exhibition, I have realized that Amice was my model for Joshua Creek. She continues to be a large part of my life. For both of us, the treasuring of memories of yesterday and the appreciation of the now are the springboard for tomorrow. Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre founder and president Sybil Rampen would soon after participate in the First World War, as a masseuse at the former Christie Street Hospital in Toronto, and Second World War, as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force agent for the British forces in North Africa. "She drew, she nursed, she wrote an opera, and she collected 800 Balkan embroideries for the Royal Ontario Museum as she drove her seven-horsepower, sun-canopied Jowett from Egypt to England in 1939," according to a media release. "In spite of many proposals and engagements she never married. Her life was dedicated to (Egyptian pharaoh) Seti I. She met and enjoyed kings, queens and peasants equally. She endured great hardships, and had extraordinary adventures reaching into the world with unbelievable energy, ability and courage." The Joshua Creek gallery is open Tuesdays-Sundays from 1-4 p.m., or by appointment. To contact the art centre, call 905-257-4730 or email info@joshuacreekarts.com, or visit www.joshuacreekarts. com. Sybil Rampen, founder and president of the Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, 1086 Burnhampthorpe Rd. E., will open an exhibit dedicated to her late aunt and Egyptologist Amice Calverley tomorrow (Saturday). Above, Calverley -- who lived in Oakville -- is pictured in Egypt during one of her many expeditions. At left, an old picture of Calverley wearing a long, gold coat for a photo shoot. Both are among the several items on display until Jan. 10, 2016. | photos courtesy Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre Oakville Galleries launches two new fall exhibits Oakville Galleries has launched two new exhibits being featured at its two locations this fall. The Missing Novella, a solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Derek Sullivan, is on display at Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore Rd. E., while Wild Permutations, a survey of Montreal photographer Jessica Eaton's works, is being showcased at Centennial Square, 120 Navy St. Sullivan's work draws on legacies of both conceptual art practices and modernist art and design. For his solo exhibition at Oakville Galleries, Sullivan has staged Gairloch Gardens as a fictional country house inspired by well-known fictional settings, such as E.M. Forster's Howards End and Belle Ombre, the home of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley. The exhibit features installations of books, screens and furniture sculptures; a wall drawing; and selection of recent works from his ongoing Poster Drawings series -- including new works referencing decorative mirrors. Themes of his latest work touch on class conflict, romance, family melodrama, and murder. Eaton's exhibit considers the nature of photography. "Using a large format film camera, she has developed a complex and experimental approach to image-making," stated a media release. see Galleries' on p.25 Expressions in Art show, sale opens tonight The 27th annual Expressions in Art show and sale is holding an opening reception tonight (Friday). The show, which showcases paintings, sculptures, jewelry, pottery and others works of art, takes place at the St. Volodymyr Cultural Centre, 1280 Dundas St. W. This year, it will feature 50 artists. The show and sale will run from 7-10 p.m., Friday; continues tomorrow (Saturday), 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and ends Sunday (Nov. 8), 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Meadowvale Theatre 6315 Montevideo Road, Mississauga ADULTS: $28 · SENIORS, STUDENTS: $26 Box office: 905-615-4720 / www.encoretix.org www.clarksonmusictheatre.com November 20 - 29