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Between the Cracks in the Sidewalk
Laura Findlay, Laura Hudspith, Laurel Rennie 12 June - 19 July 2025
McBride Contemporain is proud to present Between the Cracks in the Sidewalk, a group exhibition featuring the work of Laura Findlay, Laura Hudspith, and Laurel Rennie.
Photo : Sarah Bodri

Laura Findlay

Working primarily through gestural representational painting, Laura Findlay is interested in the tension and humour that results from encounters between the natural and the built world. Her recent projects explore gardens as a transitory site to examine the interplay in notions of nature, the environment, and technology. Findlay uses a subtractive painting process to generate an image through removing material, and explores how these subjects and actions can be intertwined in paintings that join the process and the idea on the surface of the work.

Laura Findlay received her MFA from the University of Guelph and a BFA from Concordia University. Findlay’s artistic practice encompasses painting and installation, with recent exhibitions at Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago, 2024), Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (Grande Prairie, 2024), Norberg Hall (Calgary, 2022), Open Studio (Toronto, 2022), and Arsenal Contemporary (Toronto, 2019). She has upcoming solo exhibitions at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery (Brantford, 2025), and at Norberg Hall (Calgary, 2026). She has been an artist in residence at the Annandale Artist Residency (Prince Edward Island), the Brucebo Foundation (Gotland), the Banff Centre (Alberta), and the Vermont Studio Center. Her artwork is a part of the RBC Collection, the TD Bank Collection and the Equitable Bank Collection. Born in Montréal, Findlay currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Photo : Tamara Léger

Laura Hudspith

Laura Hudspith (b. 1990, Toronto) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work and research explores the personal health and socio-cultural possibilities that might arise through cultivating a practice of turning inwards. Spanning sculpture, installation, photography, and text, her work articulates a reorientation toward molecular or atomic concerns; toward in/organic animacies and toward questions on the nature of being and the mattering of matter.

Recent solo and group exhibitions include Internal Circumstances at CIBC Square (Toronto, 2024), Enduring Emanations at Mrs., Maspeth (New York, 2024), Thump, Whoosh, Rumble at The Miller ICA (Pittsburgh, 2023, Everything Once Arranged Has Become Scattered at The Anderson (Richmond, 2023), and There are seams in purgatory at The McDonough Museum of Art (Youngstown, 2022). Her work has been recognized by the Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Toronto Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Hudspith holds a BFA from Concordia University (2013), and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2023). She is currently based in Montreal.
Laurel Rennie

Laurel Rennie constructs speculative worlds through textiles, drawing, sculpture, and writing. Rooted in a rich personal lexicon of characters and materials, her work mirrors the intricate patterns of her environment—layers of soil, slug trails, scarred tree bark—while expressing a deep engagement with texture, touch, and the unseen. Combining found fabrics, carved wood, and layered dyes, Rennie’s process is one of gradual accumulation, guided equally by intuition and structure. Her stitched fragments and hand-sewn patterns evoke folkloric symbolism, reflecting on spiritual survival in a world increasingly shaped by human impact. Through spirals, mazes, and frenetic gestures, Rennie explores the blurred boundary between observer and observed, crafting works that invite sustained attention and reciprocal looking.

Laurel Rennie holds a Master’s in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University and a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from NSCAD University. Recent exhibitions include Also a Good Place to Sulk curated by Anaïs Castro at Zalucky Contemporary (Toronto, 2024), Traces Coiled and Twined at FOFA Gallery, (Montreal, 2024), and Ignition 17 at Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery (Montreal, 2022). Laurel Rennie was born in Windsor, Ontario, has lingering roots in Nova Scotia, and is currently based in Montreal.
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Established in 2018, McBride Contemporain is a Montreal-based contemporary art gallery committed to the presentation and promotion of artworks created by a selection of the country’s best living artists. By creating a bridge that connects artists, museums, collectors, and the wider public, the gallery takes pride in nurturing enduring collaborations with both art experts and enthusiasts alike, both within the vibrant Quebec art scene and beyond. McBride Contemporain is located on the fourth floor of the Belgo Building, where it is proud to contribute to a vibrant and thriving artistic community within Canada's largest concentration of contemporary art galleries.
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Laura Findlay

Laura Hudspith

Laurel Rennie

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