THE 2025 FALL FESTIVAL JURORS
Joanne Poluch and Ian McLean
Joanne Poluch
Joanne Poluch is the owner of Remarque Art Consulting in Guelph. Joanne holds an honours degree in Art History from the University of Guelph and an art marketing diploma from Sotheby’s Institute of New York.
Joanne is frequently called upon to be a guest speaker for numerous art groups and events both at the national and international level.
As a popular and introspective juror, Joanne remains a quintessential player on the art scene, enjoying a very active art coaching/mentorship practise with artists across Canada, the US and the Caribbean.
Joanne holds the position of Manager of Art Sales and Rental Program at the Art Gallery of Guelph.
Ian McLean
Based in Bright’s Grove, Ontario, Ian McLean studied at the University of Guelph and has been the recipient of multiple Ontario Arts Council grants.
Ian has exhibited widely at a variety of public and private galleries, commercial venues and artist-run spaces.
Toronto galleries include Angell Gallery, Loop Gallery, CFA Gallery, Gallery Moos, Tatar Art Projects, and Harbourfront Centre.
Regional galleries include the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, The Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford, Forest City Gallery, London, Earls Court Gallery, Hamilton, Woodstock Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Sopa Fine Art, Kelowna, and Handworks Gallery, Saint John.
A former juror for The Prisma Art Prize, Rome, Ian was also a contestant on the inaugural season of CBC TV’s “Landscape Artist of the Year: Canada”. His work is held in private and corporate collections across the country and internationally.
Situated in one of the key destination places in the Headwaters Region, the Headwaters Arts group enriches the artistic and cultural footprint within this extended community.
We acknowledge that the land on which we gather, and on which the Region of Peel operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land. In particular we acknowledge the territory of the Ani-shinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.