Opening: Cameron McLeod: The Cricket’s Song

Cameron McLeod: The Cricket’s Song
On view: September 19– October 31, 2025
Opening reception: Friday, September 19, 6:00-9:00 pm

The Cricket’s Song, a powerful solo exhibition by Cameron McLeod, opens on September 19, 2025, at Finch Lane Art Gallery in Salt Lake City. This deeply intimate body of work offers an unflinching yet poetic look into the artist’s experience of grief during the final months of his father’s life.

As Parkinson’s disease and dementia took hold, the artist’s father became both physically and mentally imprisoned by his condition. The Cricket’s Song chronicles this emotional terrain, honoring the profound beauty in the act of caregiving while confronting the certainty of a loved one’s death.

A parallel narrative unfolds through the inclusion of writings by the artist’s grandfather who suffered a similar decline. These words from the past are woven into the work to create a multigenerational dialogue—an exploration of memory, mortality, and legacy. “By inviting my grandfather’s voice into this body of work, I aim to create a conversation across three generations,” says the artist. “It’s an attempt to understand a universal truth: we all experience loss, and we all hope to be remembered.”

Set against the backdrop of the artist’s childhood landscapes—places his father cherished—the exhibition reflects on the emotional and geographic distance that shaped the artist’s life after leaving home to pursue a life in the mountain west. These scenes become symbolic spaces for reflection, reconciliation, and connection.

The Cricket’s Song is an intimate and haunting portrait that speaks to the impermanence of relationships, the echo left behind in one’s absence, and the clarity that can only come through navigating one’s grief. Through visual storytelling and personal history, the exhibition invites viewers to consider their own place in the continuum of memory, love and loss.