ARTIST TALK
Join us for an evening in conversation with artist Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu and our Artistic Director, Deep Kaur Kailey.
Together they will explore the ideas and practices at the heart of UNSTRUCK MELODY, followed by an audience Q&A. The evening will begin with a chance to view the exhibition, with small bites and refreshments served throughout.
The talk marks the beginning of the public programme for the exhibition. Across large-scale tapestries, mixed-media paintings and film, the exhibition explores Sikh teachings through the interconnected practices of Simran (focused practice for the mind), Seva (selfless service) and Sangat (community and gathering). Together, these works invite visitors on a transformative journey of the mind.
FREE and OPEN TO ALL
BIOGRAPHY, NIRBHAI (NEP) SINGH SIDHU: is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist who works through labor-based knowledge production, Sikh interiority, and blood memory as an adaptive method for resilience and remembrance. For this exhibition, Sidhu will create a new body of drawings, sculptures, multimedia works, and paintings that reflects a Simran focused visual output to address realities of languaging and musicking as natural modes of ‘embodying a text’ (Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji) or ‘becoming the sound’ (Unstruck Melody) in the pursuit of expanding the mind while losing one’s autobiographical self.
Nep’s practice draws from a personal lifetime and family lineage of working in metal manufacturing plants in Toronto and the building of community-based sites for youth development such as Sher-E-Punjab Sports Academy in Chakar, Punjab.
Nep’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Aichi Triennale, Nagoya City Museum, Japan; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Esker Foundation, Calgary; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others. He is a member of the Black Constellation collective and designs clothing and adornment under the Paradise Sportif moniker.
BIOGRAPHY, DEEP KAUR KAILEY: a multidisciplinary Artistic and Creative Director. The former Condé Nast fashion director went from styling iconic global figures to creating contemporary artistic programmes enabling meaningful conversations about the mind, as artistic director and co-founder of without SHAPE without FORM. Deep’s work is a testament to the power of creativity to connect people and inspire self-discovery in our increasingly noisy and fractured world.
Time:
6–8pm
24 Jul 2026
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