ALCHEMIA Art Workshop

Press Kit – Inaugural Project: Transformation of Dangerous Spaces

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About ALCHEMIA Art Workshop

ALCHEMIA is a registered Canadian not-for-profit arts organization based in Nova Scotia, dedicated to producing bold, site-specific, socially-engaged artworks that challenge, confront, and transform.

We believe that art is a living force one that can illuminate hidden histories, reclaim spaces of harm, and catalyze conversations that lead to healing and change. Through public installations, community-based programming, and cross-sector partnerships, ALCHEMIA operates at the intersection of art, social justice, and transformation.

Mission Statement

To create immersive, large-scale artworks that reimagine dangerous or neglected spaces, real and imagined , offering communities a new narrative rooted in healing, legacy, memory, and resilience.

Executive Statement

ALCHEMIA was born from fire ,literally and metaphorically. Following a near-fatal stroke in 2023, Executive Director and artist Christopher W. Quigley emerged with a renewed urgency to use his creative practice as a tool for change. ALCHEMIA represents the alchemical power of art: to transmute pain into purpose, erasure into presence, and danger into beauty.

We are here to turn the forgotten into monuments. We are here to ask hard questions. And we are here to transform.

Inaugural Project: Transformation of Dangerous Spaces

Transformation of Dangerous Spaces is a national-scale public art initiative that reclaims space associated with gender-based violence, intimate partner violence, and social conditioning and social erasure. This spaces—will be transformed into immersive, temporary art installations that honour those impacted by gender based violence, creating places of public reflection, storytelling, accountability and collective healing.

The first installation will debut in Nova Scotia, with future sites planned across Canada. Each location will be developed in partnership with local organizations, artists, and survivors.

This is not a memorial. This is a transformation.

About the Artist & Executive Director: Christopher W. Quigley

Christopher W. Quigley is a Canadian designer, public artist, and creative visionary with almost 20 years of experience creating large-scale, custom-built architectural works across North America.

After suffering a massive stroke in 2023, Christopher reoriented his practice toward personal expression and social engagement. His work explores the fragile line between permanence and decay, order and chaos, beauty and grief. With ALCHEMIA Art Workshop, he merges his background in interior design, urban design, fabrication, and architecture with a deep commitment to cultural transformation through art.

Christopher’s writing, sculpture, and installations are deeply influenced by themes of loss, identity, memory, and resilience. His work is both monumental and ephemeral—just like life itself.

Website & Contact

📍 Visit: www.alchemiaartworkshop.org

📧 Inquiries: cq@alchemiaartworkshop.org

📍 Based in Nova Scotia, Canada