View artwork

ART EXHIBITION AND SALE

DEC 19-JAN 3

MILE ZERO 9931-78AVE

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

Artist, writer, and social innovator, Wallis Kendal has shaped Edmonton’s cultural landscape through a lifetime of creative expression and community engagement.

Hidden untill now, his personal artwork challenges, provokes, and bears witness. From the internationally-recognized collaboartive Gun Sculpture to co-founding iHuman Youth Society, his artistic practice is inseparable from his commitment to social justice and the voices of those too often unheard.

Explore practice
Material honesty

Forged in grassroots survival

Kendal's creative practice bridges fine art and frontline survival, confronting systemic trauma without decorative artifice. Every form bears direct witness to stories too often silenced.

Developed across decades of community engagement in Edmonton, the work insists that physical materials carry the unvarnished memory of the streets they emerge from.

Position

Do not look away

View works
Read practice

ART EXHIBITION AND SALE

DEC 19-JAN 3 MILE ZERO 9931-78AVE

Studio practice

Revealed, Raw, Personal,

Decades of private artwork emerging publicly for the first time, utilizing various mediums to examine structural violence.

The collaborative dream

With select funds from artwork sales, Wallis is striving to create supportive housing for Indigenous women, while recognizing their challenges as they seek to relearn and rebuild their lives, turning collective community trauma into permanent physical monuments of resistance and homes of peace.

Institutional contact

Examine the permanent catalog

Curatorial loans, institutional exhibition access, and private viewing arrangements.