OTTAWA.- Some time in the night of Sunday May 28th, Blink Gallery, whose home is in the NCC building called Header House, in Major’s Hill Park, was ransacked. The artist collective, called BLINK, had just had its official opening of the gallery for the 2006 season that Sunday afternoon and had locked up the gallery, activating the security system, at 5 pm.

By noon the next day (Monday May 29) when an artist from the collective went in to retrieve one of her artworks, she discovered that every work of art in the two small rooms (valued at approximately $20,000) had disappeared – even the labels had been removed from the walls. There is no explanation as to the motivation for this crime.

This shocking theft represents quite a blow to BLINK members and the future of its gallery, as well as a serious loss to the Ottawa community. The case is currently under investigation by the Ottawa Police and the RCMP.