Richard Boulet 

Exhibition Dates: November 22, 2025 - January 31, 2026 

Opening: Friday, November 21, 2025 5-7pm

Curated by Wayne Baerwaldt

The exhibition 'If I May Digress: Richard Boulet and Collaborators' offers a site-specific selection of works from Edmonton-based Richard Boulet's oeuvre to offer diverse perspectives on intersectional mental illness/health/queer aesthetics, our collective engagement with mental wellness, and the sustained influence of fine crafts in art and architecture practices. In many ways the works by Boulet and his collaborators represent a unique inquiry self-consciously free from morphological constrictions. Remarkable outcomes in materials and stylistic shifts are evident. By providing an art and design context for schizophrenia and its display of dysfunction in the public mind, Boulet aims to suggest there is as much consideration to be paid to recovery and the text-and-materially-based art and design as to pre-diagnosis hardships.