in·ter·play
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“in·ter·play”: the way in which two or more things have an effect on each other.”
This exhibition explores how time and material affect one another. In the practices of Richelle Graebeiel and Sarah Delaney, material becomes a form of language, telling a storying and highlighting how time functions as both a medium and a tool. Time is embedded into the very fabric of their construction: through deliberate assembly, repetition, and process, their works become vessels of memory—each piece recording experience and honouring the history of its making. By embracing slow and small gesture, Richelle and Sarah underscore the significance of materiality and the quiet power of accumulated action.
Sarah’s work interlaces memory and sensory response. In essence, her paintings are her personal voice and a poetic response to the world around: emotional terrains, shaped by time, place, and the quiet rhythms of life. Her practice invites grounded introspection and carries a meditative quality, offering stillness amidst a spinning world.
On the canvas, entire worlds emerge: Each painting begins as fluid washes of pigment, rivers traversing the horizontal surface, mapping the topographical indentations of the naturally sloping studio floor and the fold lines within the canvas. These dips, seams, and gravitational pulls reveal the distinctive properties of the material and the journey it undertakes. Layered marks— crayon, pastel, embroidery— extend this dialogue, rooted in the exploration of materiality and its subtle markers of time. Time, for Sarah, is not linear but internal and qualitative—a central medium in her work. Her paintings open pathways without end, inviting viewers to drift along currents of thought that exist at once in the present and the past.
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“in-ter-play”
Sarah Delaney + Richelle Graebeiel
August Studios
1320 E Pender St, Vancouver, BCOpening Reception
Thursday Nov 13
6-9pmFriday Nov 14 - Sunday Nov 16
11-4pm daily
For a moment, sometimes, we see, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
40” x 60” / 102cm x 152cm canvas
41.5” x 61.5” / 105.41cm x 156.21cm framed
not with our eyes but with our thoughts, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
38”x 52” / 96.5cm x 132.08cm canvas
39.25” x 53.25” / 99.5cm x 135cm framed
time resting in a pause, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
48” x 36” / 122cm x 91.5cm canvas
49.25” x 37.25” / 125cm x 94.5cm framed
The world half-opens and we glimpse, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
42” x 36” / 106.5cm x 91.5cm canvas
43.25” x 37.25” / 110cm x 94.5cm framed
the immaculate kingdom, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Graphite, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
36 x 36” / 91.5cm x 91.5cm canvas
37.25” x 37.25” / 94.5cm x 94.5cm framed
the pure forms, presences, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Graphite, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
32” x 46” / 81cm x 117cm canvas
33.25” x 47.25” / 84.5cm x 120cm framed
unmoving, floating, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
30” x 40” / 76cm x 101.5cm canvas
31.25” x 41.25” / 79cm x 104.5cm framed
on the hour, a river stopped:, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Graphite, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
28” x 42” / 71cm x 106.5cm canvas
29.25” x 43.25” / 74cm x 110cm framed
$3,000. CAD
truth, beauty, numbers, ideas, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
30” x 30” / 76cm x 76cm canvas
31.25” x 31.25” / 79cm x 79cm framed
—and goodness, a word buried, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
36” x 24” / 91.5cm x 61cm canvas
37.25” x 25.25” / 95cm x 64cm framed
in our century., 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
24” x 18” / 61cm x 45.5cm canvas
25.25” x 19.25” / 64cm x 49cm framed
A moment without weight or duration, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
24” x 18” / 61cm x 45.5cm canvas
25.25” x 19.25” / 64cm x 49cm framed
a moment outside the moment:, 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
24” x 18” / 61cm x 45.5cm canvas
25.25” x 19.25” / 64cm x 49cm framed
thought sees, our eyes think., 2025
Sarah Delaney
Acrylic paint, Pastels, Pencil Crayon, Dyed Cotton thread Embroidery on Raw canvas, Torn and Stitched, Framed
24” x 18” / 61cm x 45.5cm canvas
25.25” x 19.25” / 64cm x 49cm framed