My Night in Nine is a series where we ask some of our friends, collaborators, and all-around creatives to show us what a night at The Drake looks like for them in nine photos. Meet Brandon Romanchuk (@currentspaces), a Quinte West-based photographer and content creator passionate about moody and minimalist aesthetics. He’s spent years honing … Continued
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Swing by the Classic Wing Lobby of The Drake Hotel for an eyeful of new art. Guest-curated by Regional Archive, Inverted Topographies is a collage-based mural by Renée Mathews that features a fusion of mixed media – including found materials from the hotel’s construction and archives. The expansive piece explores a post-apocalyptic planet where new … Continued
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Beautifully intricate, detailed and realistic – meet David the creative genius behind David Miniatures. Formerly an art director and graphic designer, David found his passion for replicating the world on a small scale as a teen. What started out as a hobby of toying with modelling kits grew into creating his own museum-quality pieces: from … Continued
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On a warm November record-setting day, writer and photographer Brittany Lucas joined us at Drake Devonshire as part of our Artist in Residency series. Feeling energized, inspired, and connected within (and outside of our walls), she captured her experience in poetic character counts and 9 candid photos. Summer in NovemberBy Brittany Lucas The unusualness of a … Continued
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My Night in Nine is a series where we ask some of our friends, collaborators and all-around creatives to show us what a night at The Drake looks like for them in nine photos. Illustrator and multimedia artist Maxine McCrann delights in the specific. Inspired by her passion for community, food, wine, and all things … Continued
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This year’s upcoming Drake Hotel x Nuit Blanche installation will explore our fascination with observing others. In “The Fourth Wall”, an interactive video projection by multimedia artist Malik McKoy, an other-worldly creature awaits our gaze from inside an unearthly room. This being engages with its audience, causing onlookers to question whether it can feel their presence. … Continued
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Bold and whimsical and displayed atop the Glass Box, Slovak-Canadian artist Nicole Beno’s Suspended Flora is the latest show-stopping piece of art at Drake Devonshire. Composed of inflatable mushroom shapes and printed with eye-catching, fantastical patterns, the art piece began as an ongoing study during the pandemic when the artist was using what she had on … Continued
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My Night in Nine is a series where we ask some of our friends, collaborators and all-around creatives to show us what a night at The Drake looks like for them in nine photos. When we heard Toronto photographer Dzesika Devic would be spending a night at ours, we knew we had to get her … Continued
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The walls of our spaces are filled with amazing pieces of art created by women, and with International Women’s Day taking place on March 8, we’ve been featuring the work of women in art all month long. This week, we’re closing out the series with Liljana Mead Martin, whose work explores the material ecologies of … Continued
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The walls of our spaces are filled with amazing pieces of art created and curated by women, and with International Women’s Day taking place this month, we’re excited to showcase Tatum Dooley, writer and curator, whose work has appeared in Architectural Digest, The Globe & Mail, SSENSE, The Walrus, and Vogue. Tatum curated the … Continued
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