Image: A Place of Silence, Installation by Tyler Ganton, 2024

ROGUE WAVE 2024
September 15 to October 20

Rogue Wave is back! This Toronto Island outdoor exhibition of installation art will run on the ground on Ward’s and Algonquin Islands, from September 15 to October 20, 2024.

The theme of Rogue Wave 2024 is TRANSFORMATION: 

In the spirit of rogue waves – unpredictable, causing disruptions, affecting change, and with short notice – artists devise their own creative response to this theme. The exhibit involves 15 artists: professional, emerging and collectives. The works are site-specific, created or re-installed on the Island.

List of 2024 Participants

1.   Joseph Muscat  Metamorworlfe

2.   April Hickox, Alexa Hickox, Merle Harley  Avian installation

3.   Gera Dillon  Early AI Awry

4.   Brad Harley  A WIA Memory

5.   Gaye Jackson  Waterworks

6.   Betsy Canfield, Nat Lister  Transcendence of Form

7.   Rick/Simon  Form

8.   Tanya Golden  Star Gazer

9.   Sandy and the Sunshine Seniors  Wild at Heart

10.   Sarah Cullen  Letters to the Deceased

11.   Shadowland Theatre  Leaves and Feathers

12.   Robin Christmas  The View from the Bridge

13.   Michael Christmas  Wolf Howling at the Moon (2)

14.   Leida Englar  What and Who

15.  Tyler Ganton  A Place of Silence

About Rogue Wave

Rogue wave n. an unpredictable, abnormally large wave that occurs on a seemingly random basis in the oceans. Freak waves, also known as rogue waves, or monster waves, are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that have been known to wreak havoc on sea-going vessels. 

About Rogue Wave to Toronto Island: In the spirit of rogue waves – unpredictable, causing disruptions, affecting change, and with short notice – artists devise their own creative response to the theme. The works are site-specific, created or re-installed on the Island. Online on Facebook and Instagram there are daily posts featuring a different artist and their project each day. 

Rogue Wave is open 7 days a week and is accessible by ferry from The Jack Layton Ferry Terminal located at the intersection of Bay St. and Queens Quay Blvd. Schedules and ticket purchase available online. Links to the ferry services and various water taxi services are on the home page.  Wheelchair accessible.

Rogue Wave is supported by City of Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation Division, Shadowland Theatre and the Toronto Island Community. The Rogue Wave 2024 team includes Shadowland Theatre, Leida Englar, Kathleen Doody, Rick/Simon, Eliza Moore, Anthea Baxter-Page.

We acknowledge the land we are on is the traditional territory of the Mississauga of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and Wendot Peoples.

Take the ferry to Ward’s Island from the Jack Layton Ferry terminal. Maps of installation locations are posted along the route, as well as linked from posters and maps by QR code to the website torontoislandart.org.