Forever-22
Julia Mobbs
Fall 2025 Artist-in-Residence
December 4 – January 25, 2026
Lower Hall Gallery | 50 Victoria Street, Aurora
Local emerging artist Julia Mobbs displays new works created in her fall residency with the Aurora Cultural Centre in this final, cumulative exhibition.
Mobbs is a recent graduate from the BFA program at Concordia University and resident of Aurora, Ontario. In her work, Mobbs creates expressive, viscerally evocative works, often using wet-on-wet painting techniques and material manipulation. Focusing on images from popular media, archived magazines, luxury objects and leisure culture, her works challenge the human form and consumer processes. In this residency, Mobbs will be using her practice to investigate how her hometown, Aurora, has shaped herself and her artistic practice, as well as to the impact it has had on the community at large.
This exhibition is on view in Lower Hall Gallery (level 1) from December 4, 2025 – January 25, 2026, and is opening Thursday December 4, from 6:30-8:30pm through a shared reception with What Does a Winter’s Night Hold? in Great Hall Gallery. Refreshments provided, and remarks to commence at 6:30pm. All are welcome.
Scheduled Programming
Thursday, December 4, 6:30-8:30pm. Celebrate the artists in our two hallway exhibitions with this combined exhibition reception! Refreshments provided, and remarks to commence at 6:30pm. All are welcome.
- Saturday, January 17, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
- Free quarterly meetup for artists and poets in Aurora Cultural Centre’s public galleries. Participants are invited to create spontaneous written or visual responses to the artworks on display. Each gathering begins with 1.5 hours of viewing, social, and creation time, followed by a 30-minute session with the option to present created responses.
- RSVP required
About the Artist
Julia Mobbs (@juliamobbs) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal and Aurora. Working across mediums of painting, drawing, and sculpture, Julia investigates the intersections of visual culture, media, and consumerism, particularly through collage and assemblage. Inspired by feminist theory, she challenges fixed ideas of femininity, drawing on Simone de Beauvoir's research question, "What is Woman?" Julia's work indulges in investigating how identity performs in contemporary life – from digital spaces to leisure, and media– posing inquiries into the performative and constructed nature of "woman." Julia will be graduating with a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia in University in April 2025.