This exhibition captured en route the talents of emerging artists Raina McDonald, Leslie Menagh and Chantal Tardiff, and was further complimented by work from their individual mentors Dawn MacNutt, Sarah Maloney and Ilan Sandler. From printmaking to video to performance to sculpture, participating artists caught their audience in their tracks, while also finding their own.…
Barbara Carter, Ron Hayes, Anna Wade Horsnell, Judith Leidi, Susan Malmstrom, John Malone, Kathy Richards, Barbara Schmeisser, Cristina C. Sidhu, Jacqueline Steudler
Jenni Blackmore, Anne Launcelott, Nora Robicheau, Rae Smith, Roxanne Smith, and Susan Sweet
Pivotal Habitat, Shelley Matthews
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February 1 – 27, 2010 Shelly Matthews, Pivotal Habitat This collection, comprising Pivotal Habitat, includes strong, simple, natural images in acrylics and watercolour as indicated by artist, Shelley Matthews. Matthews further states: I paint the images that hold my visual awareness; those which immediately send my mind into the process of making art and resonate…
Harvey Dobson, Helen Opie, Jeremy Akerman, Joy Laking, Laurie Mireau, Marlien Suermondt, Mary Ann Archibald, Monika Wright and Rae Smith
Collaboration on Marginal Road
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On October 18, 2009, as part of Nocturne, members of the public were invited to play a collective word game inspired by the parlour game Exquisite Corpse, originally played by Surrealists in the 1900s. In our version, each player added a sentence to an ongoing story without having knowledge of what has already been written.…
2009 VANS Awards
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On Friday October 17, 2009 , artists and art supporters gathered to acknowledge the recipients of the 2nd Annual VANS Awards at the Nocturne Launch Party. Awards categories include Emerging Artist, Outstanding Year, Art Educator and the 2009 VANS Honour Roll. VANS would like to acknowledge the support of Nocturne, Propeller Brewery and Bruce Jollimore Photography. Outstanding Year Award: Yo Rodeo This…
VANS Awards – 2009
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On Friday October 17, 2009 , artists and art supporters gathered to acknowledge the recipients of the 2nd Annual VANS Awards at the Nocturne Launch Party. Yo Rodeo: Outstanding Year Yo Rodeo is the name of screen-printing art team Seth Smith and Paul Hammond. They partnered in 2003 primarily to design and create screen-printed show posters for…
October 3 – 30, 2009 Everything that you are reading, I have said before Bonnie Baker Bonnie Baker will exhibit two contiguous drawings that bind the walls of the gallery. These drawings were culled from a previous installation/performance piece, called Bindings, in which the interior of a small room was literally bound with interconnecting drawings…
Art in a Box: July 7- November 5, 2009
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Kim Cain-Simmonds, Anna Wade Horsnell, Eleanor Clarke, Rae Smith, Carolyn Fish, Roxanne Smith, Colleen McKee and Ann McLauchlan
Art in a Box: July 6 – November 2 2009
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Works by Kim Cain-Simmonds, Eleanor Clarke, Carolyn Fish, Colleen McKee, Ann Mclaughlan, Rae Smith, Roxanne Smith and Anna Horsnell Wade
JULY 2, 2009 – AUGUST 31, 2009 BETWEEN THE PAGES: THE ARTIST’S BOOK Participating member artists include, Sarah Reesor, Bonnie Baker, James MacSwain, Susan Tooke, Nicholas Johnson, Andrew Danson, Jan Edwards, Art Livingston, Anna Davidson, Karen Jeane Mills, Richard Rudnicki, Rowland C Marshall, Charlotte Wilson Hammond, Rachel Reeve and Susan Malmstrom.
LARGEsmall Experiments in Scale Visual Arts Nova Scotia Annapolis East Regional Exhibition May 22 – July 4th, 2009 Opening: May 22, 7pm Acadia University Art Gallery Wolfville, NS Discrepancy of size is a form of distortion, and all forms of distortion shock us into attention. —Steven Millhauser, “The Fascination of the Miniature” May 20, 2009…
corridor gallery: Lynn Rotin
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MAY 18 – JUNE 25, 2009 LYNN ROTIN WAXWORKS Encaustics on wood; a combination of pigment and beeswax.
Power of Place, VANS Regional Exhibition
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POWER OF PLACE APRIL – JUNE 2009 YARMOUTH, DIGBY AND SHELBURNE Power of Place is a Visual Arts Nova Scotia regional member art exhibit that explores the connections society, and likewise participating artists forge with a given landscape. Where and when do we feel at home and at peace? What are the qualities that attract…
Art in a Box: March 6 – June 26, 2009
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Works by Rae Smith, Gilbert van Ryckevorsel, Denise Soper, Darrin Auchterlonie, Becky Thompson, Kathy Richards, and Anke Holm
Art in a Box: March 5 – June 26, 2009
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Anke Holm, Becky Thompson, Darrin Auchterlone, Denise Soper, Gilbert van Ryckevorsel, Rae Smith and Kathy Richards.
corridor gallery: Claudia Mannion
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NOVEMBER 3 – DECEMBER 8, 2008 CLAUDIA MANNION NON-HUMAN PRIMATE BEHAVIOUR Pairing text with charcoal drawings alongside paintings of baboons, Claudia Mannion intersects history and observation with her most recent body of work. Mannion states: Non- Human Primate Behaviour is a series of drawings and stencilled text, mixed media works on paper, and paintings. The…
corridor gallery: Derrick Dale Johnson
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SEPTEMBER 3 – 29, 2008 DERRICK DALE JOHNSON CANADIAN POLITICS TODAY Derrick Dale Johnson calls Nova Scotia home. His current interest is in Canadian and world events, and how these events shape and influence our social institutions.
Po-lar: VANS Members’ Exhibition
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June 6 – August 29, 2008 Po-lar: VANS Members’ Exhibition Featuring works by: Becky Thompson, G.E. Newsome, Sarah Jane Conklin, Terry Drahos, Natan Nevo, Rod Mackay, Donna Underwood, Carol Morrow, Andrea Pottyondy, James MacSwain, Kenny Boone, Teena Marie Fancey, Giselle Beauchamp, Shaun Richardson, Vicki MacLean, Kathy Richards, Felicity Redgrave, Biserka Turčić, Virginia McCoy, Maxine Hannaby,…