Yael Brotman fosters a multi-faceted practice based in printmaking, print-based sculpture and installation. Long Days of Awe presents a solo-exhibition of new print-works inspired by Brotman’s 2025 Arctic Circle residency experience in Norway. Speaking to her feelings of wonder and fear for the polar ice cap that informed these works:

“Beauty and terror filled my heart in equal measure while I was watching the ice floes from the deck of the ship, and how the flat icebergs squeezed, pushed, and choked the sides of our vessel… The big bergs would rotate and push others to rotate too. We witnessed the weight and power of these icebergs…Another indelible memory related to the ice and the disappearing glaciers, is all the garbage that a group of artists and scientists collected on one of the fjord beaches, which included plastic objects, ropes, and nets. This serves as a reminder of how detritus, some of which we keep in our drawers at home, migrates from the personal realm to the political when those items end up not just in our designated landfills, but in very distant waterways and ice floes.”

 “Breathtaking and heartbreaking” was how all of us on the residency described our experience of the far North. In my work I strive to incorporate these dialectics to expose the complexity of our human condition in a world that is changing rapidly and radically.”

-Yael Brotman

Brotman has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally in Egypt, Japan, Germany, China, Spain, Australia, Lithuania and the United States. Brotman has been awarded numerous grants and residencies in China, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Haida Gwaii and Norway. Her work is represented in national and international corporate and public collections and private collections. Brotman currently lives and works in Toronto, ON.