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On the menu for 2016: A new restaurant from the El Camino guys, more tunes from Kalle Mattson and new ways to see the city and our world from top artists and designers.
FOOD
Chefs Jordan Holley, left, and Matthew Carmichael are photographed in front of the 62 Sparks St. where they plan to open their restaurant in Spring 2016.
Matthew Carmichael and Jordan Holley
Veteran Ottawa chef Matthew Carmichael and his right-hand chef de cuisine, Jordan Holley, already have two trendy hits on their hands — the taco-centric El Camino at Elgin Street and Gladstone Avenue, and its new neighbour, the Asian small plates place Datsun. As if two hip restaurants weren’t enough, they plan to open a third place this spring near the other end of Elgin, at 62 Sparks St. in the former CIBC building. The new restaurant’s name remains under wraps and the cuisine will be, Holley says, “classic fare, presented very naturally.” Given their track record, however Carmichael and Holley choose to flesh out that menu mandate should bring some culinary sizzle to pub-heavy Sparks Street, if not to Ottawa at large.
— Peter Hum
MUSIC
Ottawa singer-songwriter Kalle Mattson.
Kalle Mattson
Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Kalle Mattson took some big strides in 2015, starting with an EP entitled Avalanche — the first release of a deal with Home Music Co., an imprint of the influential Nettwerk Music Group. The pop-infused EP is not only a worthy follow-up to last year’s Polaris-nominated Someday, The Moon Will be Gold, but the title track came with a terrific video of Mattson recreating 35 of his favourite album covers.
What’s more, with the new business team behind him, the sensitive folk-rocker also began to make inroads into previously unexplored markets, including his first shows in the U.S. His stagecraft jumped a notch, too, as the touring continued through Canada and Europe. And by the end of the year, his chill, beat-stripped cover of Drake’s Hotline Bling had added serious fuel to the fire, heard by nearly a million listeners.
Expect more music from the creatively restless 25-year-old in 2016.
– Lynn Saxberg
DESIGN
Furniture designer Laura Langford has teamed up with fellow designer Brendon Taylor to create their own company, Matchstick, which is branching out into interior design.
Laura Langford
Furniture designer Laura Langford has been around the Ottawa scene for a few years, starting in accessories (she created a fine leather handbag company in 2010) before migrating to furniture by 2012. She made a splash at the 2014 Interior Design Show in Toronto, capturing the attention of industry professionals with her signature clean-lined, yet curvy, Magnolia lounge chair and being named a designer to watch by Canadian Design Resource, a digital platform dedicated to promoting Canadian design. The 29-year-old teamed up with fellow designer Brendon Taylor earlier this year to form Matchstick, a company that focuses on contemporary interiors, furniture and accessories. Their most recent project was the Stalwart Brewery in Carleton Place, which was finished just before Christmas. Next up is another brewery: Beyond the Pale’s new City Centre location.
Award winning interior designer Nathan Kyle is photographed by the model kitchen displayed at Astro Design Centre.
Nathan Kyle
In the few short years that 30-year-old Nathan Kyle has been designing award-winning interiors, he’s made such an impression that it’s hard to imagine he started out studying economics. He joined Astro Design Centre in a junior role in 2010 while finishing up his interior design degree at Algonquin College, then worked his way up. Already, he’s got 11 awards under his belt from both the National Kitchen and Bath Association’s Ottawa chapter and the prestigious Housing Design Awards put on by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association. Next up for this rising star: a penthouse condo at Yard & Station he’s been working on since February, and designing his own home in Westboro.
— Anita Murray
ART
Ottawa Art Gallery board member Lilly Koltun, retired director general of the Portrait Gallery of Canada, and her mock-interactive execution chamber, in Distraction at Studio Sixty Six in Ottawa.
Lilly Koltun
Lilly Koltun is a retired civil servant who distinguished herself as a late-blooming artist in 2015.
At Studio Sixty Six in August, Koltun’s interactive execution chamber included a painting of an electric chair, “blood”-filled squirt guns, and an invitation to “Please Feel Free to Spritz the Painting.” It was an unsettling comment on public culpability in capital punishment.
At the Ottawa School of Art during Nuit Blanche in September, Koltun’s In My Other Job saw four walls filled with dozens of statements — “In my other job, I get it,” “In my other job, I walk a fine line” — that captured mixed feelings about the work we do to be fulfilled, or just to survive.
Koltun’s accessible, vivid imagination should further flower in 2016, starting with a show at Espace Projet gallery in Montreal, opening Jan. 17, that will explore “whether artists can still break the boundaries of art.” Watch for more later in the year, in Ottawa and beyond.
Drew Mosley stands in front of the mural he painted at the Bank St. overpass under Hwy. 417.
Drew Mosley
This past summer, with artists Felix Berube and Troy Lovegates, Drew Mosley created the mural Heart of a City in Motion in the 417 underpass at Bank Street. It bustles with a peaceable kingdom of creatures.
At the Ottawa Art Gallery in June, Mosley showed 20 or so small, three-dimensional, framed woodland scenes, each made of paintings and found objects, and each a fable-like, narrative diorama of forest creatures. Almost every piece sold on opening night — the sort of public endorsement that inspires artists to even greater creative heights.
In 2016, Mosley, who is both artist and carpenter, will be focusing his art on the Toronto and Montreal markets and building up an inventory of work at his Ottawa studio. He’s also hoping to do more public murals in the capital.
— Peter Simpson
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FOOD
Chefs Jordan Holley, left, and Matthew Carmichael are photographed in front of the 62 Sparks St. where they plan to open their restaurant in Spring 2016.
Matthew Carmichael and Jordan Holley
Veteran Ottawa chef Matthew Carmichael and his right-hand chef de cuisine, Jordan Holley, already have two trendy hits on their hands — the taco-centric El Camino at Elgin Street and Gladstone Avenue, and its new neighbour, the Asian small plates place Datsun. As if two hip restaurants weren’t enough, they plan to open a third place this spring near the other end of Elgin, at 62 Sparks St. in the former CIBC building. The new restaurant’s name remains under wraps and the cuisine will be, Holley says, “classic fare, presented very naturally.” Given their track record, however Carmichael and Holley choose to flesh out that menu mandate should bring some culinary sizzle to pub-heavy Sparks Street, if not to Ottawa at large.
— Peter Hum
MUSIC
Ottawa singer-songwriter Kalle Mattson.
Kalle Mattson
Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Kalle Mattson took some big strides in 2015, starting with an EP entitled Avalanche — the first release of a deal with Home Music Co., an imprint of the influential Nettwerk Music Group. The pop-infused EP is not only a worthy follow-up to last year’s Polaris-nominated Someday, The Moon Will be Gold, but the title track came with a terrific video of Mattson recreating 35 of his favourite album covers.
What’s more, with the new business team behind him, the sensitive folk-rocker also began to make inroads into previously unexplored markets, including his first shows in the U.S. His stagecraft jumped a notch, too, as the touring continued through Canada and Europe. And by the end of the year, his chill, beat-stripped cover of Drake’s Hotline Bling had added serious fuel to the fire, heard by nearly a million listeners.
Expect more music from the creatively restless 25-year-old in 2016.
– Lynn Saxberg
DESIGN
Furniture designer Laura Langford has teamed up with fellow designer Brendon Taylor to create their own company, Matchstick, which is branching out into interior design.
Laura Langford
Furniture designer Laura Langford has been around the Ottawa scene for a few years, starting in accessories (she created a fine leather handbag company in 2010) before migrating to furniture by 2012. She made a splash at the 2014 Interior Design Show in Toronto, capturing the attention of industry professionals with her signature clean-lined, yet curvy, Magnolia lounge chair and being named a designer to watch by Canadian Design Resource, a digital platform dedicated to promoting Canadian design. The 29-year-old teamed up with fellow designer Brendon Taylor earlier this year to form Matchstick, a company that focuses on contemporary interiors, furniture and accessories. Their most recent project was the Stalwart Brewery in Carleton Place, which was finished just before Christmas. Next up is another brewery: Beyond the Pale’s new City Centre location.
Award winning interior designer Nathan Kyle is photographed by the model kitchen displayed at Astro Design Centre.
Nathan Kyle
In the few short years that 30-year-old Nathan Kyle has been designing award-winning interiors, he’s made such an impression that it’s hard to imagine he started out studying economics. He joined Astro Design Centre in a junior role in 2010 while finishing up his interior design degree at Algonquin College, then worked his way up. Already, he’s got 11 awards under his belt from both the National Kitchen and Bath Association’s Ottawa chapter and the prestigious Housing Design Awards put on by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association. Next up for this rising star: a penthouse condo at Yard & Station he’s been working on since February, and designing his own home in Westboro.
— Anita Murray
ART
Ottawa Art Gallery board member Lilly Koltun, retired director general of the Portrait Gallery of Canada, and her mock-interactive execution chamber, in Distraction at Studio Sixty Six in Ottawa.
Lilly Koltun
Lilly Koltun is a retired civil servant who distinguished herself as a late-blooming artist in 2015.
At Studio Sixty Six in August, Koltun’s interactive execution chamber included a painting of an electric chair, “blood”-filled squirt guns, and an invitation to “Please Feel Free to Spritz the Painting.” It was an unsettling comment on public culpability in capital punishment.
At the Ottawa School of Art during Nuit Blanche in September, Koltun’s In My Other Job saw four walls filled with dozens of statements — “In my other job, I get it,” “In my other job, I walk a fine line” — that captured mixed feelings about the work we do to be fulfilled, or just to survive.
Koltun’s accessible, vivid imagination should further flower in 2016, starting with a show at Espace Projet gallery in Montreal, opening Jan. 17, that will explore “whether artists can still break the boundaries of art.” Watch for more later in the year, in Ottawa and beyond.
Drew Mosley stands in front of the mural he painted at the Bank St. overpass under Hwy. 417.
Drew Mosley
This past summer, with artists Felix Berube and Troy Lovegates, Drew Mosley created the mural Heart of a City in Motion in the 417 underpass at Bank Street. It bustles with a peaceable kingdom of creatures.
At the Ottawa Art Gallery in June, Mosley showed 20 or so small, three-dimensional, framed woodland scenes, each made of paintings and found objects, and each a fable-like, narrative diorama of forest creatures. Almost every piece sold on opening night — the sort of public endorsement that inspires artists to even greater creative heights.
In 2016, Mosley, who is both artist and carpenter, will be focusing his art on the Toronto and Montreal markets and building up an inventory of work at his Ottawa studio. He’s also hoping to do more public murals in the capital.
— Peter Simpson
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