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The Last Penny
The Last Penny (2025) is a sculpture installed in July, 2025 on a light pole at the edge, and at the invitation, of an artist-run community garden. The garden, Jardin Papillon, was commissioned by an adjacent condo developer on the busy corner of Meilleur and Chabanel in the rapidly changing Chabanel Garment District of Montreal.
The Last Penny was made by repurposing found satellite dishes with laser-cut plywood and fibreglass and is intended to stay up as long as the garden remains in place at the discretion of the developers. The sculpture depicts the last Canadian penny before it was retired by the Royal Canadian Mint in 2013.
It resurfaces as a token of ambivalence—a cheap icon of patriotism in a refurbished nationalist era; a beacon of longing for an earlier time; an expression of art’s marginal appearance in the everyday economy (my two cents); public art in the form of the only thing that unites us: money.
Origins (2020–2022)
Access
Anno Domini 69
Atheist Image
Beijing Man
Bill 21, version 2
Metro Maisonneuve
Negative Walton’s
Reenactment
Solitude (Forest)
Solitude (Interior)
Creative Destruction
Griffintown Self Suite
Club Ami — Les manœuvres de la côte
Over 2022 and into 2023, along with other artists Maude Arès, Damián Birbrier and Adam Kinner, I took part in visits and workshops at Club Ami in preparation for their 40th anniversary exhibition at Maison de la Culture de Côte-des-Neiges. I noticed early on how the staff and members of Club Ami were negotiating around this project with great care and generosity the delicate puzzles of the past and the present, history and urgency, and the tensions around representation. My contribution was the Big Book, a device that could simply function as a series of surfaces to accommodate an archive of old and new work of various members. It was made of repurposed electrical conduits, textiles, caster wheels and wood.
Details below…
Credos IV
CREDOS IV
Credos IV is a book-as-exhibition, the fourth in an ongoing series of displays of artworks that elaborate on notions of belief (see below). It was launched February 3rd, 2022 at articule artist run centre.
The 5 inch by 8 inch books are 150 pages in black and white with colour inserts. Each comes with handmade hardwood frames, individually covered in textile, which the books can easily slip in and out of (back and front covers offering different choices of image by the painter Mina Hedayat). Credos IV can be hung on a nail or fit on a shelf, and look nice on their own or in clusters. They come in a numbered edition of 200.
With contributions from Lea Cetera, Mina Hedayat, Craig Leonard & Michael Fernandes, Jones Miller, Pak Sheung Chuen, Jeanne Randolph, Alessandro Rolandi, Jamie Ross, and others.
They are priced at $30 and can be found at the following locations, with more distributors forthcoming:
Articule (Montreal)
Art Metropole (Toronto)
Axenéo7 (Gatineau)
Canadian Centre for Architecture bookstore (Montreal)
La Fonderie Darling (Montreal)
Librairie le Port de Tête (Montreal)
Verticale — centre d’artistes (Laval)
Credos is a series of exhibitions that started off as table-top group mini-exhibitions conceived for church-basement bazaars in Laval and Greater Montreal throughout 2019–20. The first two editions took place in different Armenian congregations in Laval. When the COVID-19 pandemic put subsequent Québec editions on hold, a version was transported to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and shown in the frame of the all-day public art festival “Art in the Open” in 2020. An 8-hour online radio program was broadcast alongside the tabletop displays.
Credos IV is also a response to social distance, but at the same time a furthering of an inquiry into the substitutions and translations of an exhibition into non-gallery spaces.
See more about previous editions here.
published Ferbuary 17th, 2022
Judy Freya Sibayan March 2021 for the Readymade Institution class at NSCAD University
*If you don’t see the video image, click on full screen. Some annoying format option that I have no control over. —Michael Eddy
The Readymade Institution class was held online in Winter/Spring 2021 for a group of Masters students from the Fine art and Art education departments at NSCAD University, and taught by Michael Eddy (Montreal) and Michael McCormack (Halifax).
Crépuscule Blanc
The exhibition “Crépuscule Blanc” took place at the print studio and gallery space Presse Papier in Trois Rivières, Québec in early 2021. It featured mixed media printmaking and drawings on found satellite dishes.
The prints depict the cover and spreads from a fictional issue of an outdated TV Guide-type magazine. The series of satellite dishes show origin stories and narratives about the self as if received from afar.
published September 1st, 2021