Fire Forge Flower
In Fire Forge Flower, Natalie King transforms the language of labour into a dream of heat and light.
Drawing from Algonquin Anishinaabe teachings and a lineage of blacksmiths and labourers, through to herself as an artist, King’s paintings explore work as continuing survival across worlds – and as the creation of new ones through making and building: the forge as studio, the body as tool, and fire as teacher.
Across symbolic, and luminous surfaces, she merges ancestral memory with contemporary working-class life, where every spark becomes a bloom and every act of making keeps the fire tended.
Residency: January 15 to 22, 2026
Opening : Thursday, January 22 2026, at 5 p.m.
EXHIBITION PARTNER
Natalie King
Natalie King (she/they) is a queer interdisciplinary Anishinaabe (Algonquin) artist, facilitator, and member of Timiskaming First Nation. Her arts practice spans painting, video, sculpture, installation and curation. King’s work speaks to cultural survival, memory, kinship, and the radiant cycles of life and death.
