Of Earth and Echo
An exhibition by Andrea Piller and Megan Fitzgerald

In Of Earth and Echo, artists Andrea Piller and Megan Fitzgerald explore the layered terrain of thresholds—those physical and psychological spaces where transformation occurs. Through ceramic sculpture and mixed media painting, their works trace lines of continuity across generations, materials, and landscapes, drawing on the rhythms of care, memory, and time. Rooted in the land, both artists attend to cycles of emergence and erosion, presence and absence, offering work that resonates with both personal and collective histories.

Piller’s ceramic vessels are quiet forms of devotion—hand-built through coiling and pressing, shaped by long observation of the land and the body. Influenced by the textures and tempos of her environment, she draws from shoreline stones, botanical forms, and ancient objects, creating pieces that feel both grounded and open. Her work considers what it means to hold and to be held—by tradition, by the earth, and by the invisible labour of caregiving across generations. With surfaces that bear the touch of time, her vessels speak to endurance, tenderness, and the slow intelligence of making.

Fitzgerald’s large-scale paintings, composed of oil pigment, textiles, stitching, and foraged materials, reflect on the act of walking as a creative, maternal, and reverent gesture. Influenced by daily walks along the Lake Ontario shoreline with her young daughter, her work becomes a kind of mapmaking: stitched portals, softened fences, and dreamlike paths that invite the viewer to pause within the in-between. These pieces speak to motherhood, memory, and the elemental rhythms of place. Her practice honours the ephemeral—seasonal shifts, emotional crossings, and the fleeting intimacy of shared attention.

Together, the works in Of Earth and Echo offer a dialogue between form and feeling, inviting audiences to consider the boundaries—both physical and metaphorical—that shape our understanding of the world around us.

Condensed Exhibition Summary

Of Earth and Echo brings together the work of Andrea Piller and Megan Fitzgerald in a shared meditation on thresholds—those quiet spaces where transformation unfolds. Through ceramic sculpture and mixed media painting, the artists explore the relationships between landscape, lineage, and material memory.

Piller’s hand-built vessels evoke the rhythms of natural cycles and the generational work of care. Grounded in the textures of shorelines and botanical forms, her ceramics are contemplative objects that hold space for both strength and softness. Fitzgerald’s layered paintings, made with oil, textiles, and foraged materials, reflect on daily walks with her young daughter along the Lake Ontario shoreline. Her stitched forms and atmospheric surfaces speak to motherhood, memory, and the poetics of place.

Together, the artists offer a dialogue between material and meaning—inviting viewers to consider thresholds not as divisions, but as connective spaces where earth holds memory, and echo becomes form.