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corridor gallery: Claudia Mannion

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

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

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,…

VANS Awards – 2008

Cathy Busby: Outstanding Year Cathy Busby receives the 2008 Outstanding Year Award. This award celebrates a visual artist who has enjoyed an exceptional year, with much artistic growth, at least one exhibition and critical recognition. Cathy Busby’s conceptually-based practice responds to the socio-political tensions inherent in everyday life. She lives and works in Halifax, with…

Biserka Turcic – Landbodies

May 2 – 29, 2008 Landbodies Biserka Turcic Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Biserka Turcic immigrated with her family to Lake Huron in southern ontario at the age of four. She graduated from York University in Toronto in 1983 with an honours BFA. The next 4 1/2 years she lived in West Berlin where she studied…

Art Livingston & Geraldine Bushell – Portraits and the Sea

April 2 – 29, 2008 Portraits and the Sea Art Livingston Geraldine Bushell Art Livingston was born in Montreal, Quebec, and joined the Royal Canadian Navy when he was eighteen. His love of the sea brought him to Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, where he now resides. Constantly inspired by his surroundings, Livingston creates paintings from the…

Larry Conrad – Mix and Match

March 3 – 28, 2008 Mix and Match Larry Conrad Collage of memories recorded on canvas with oil – pet portaits, landscapes and abstracts. Larry Conrad is an artist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A graduate of the Art Instruction School in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1972-1976), Conrad has spent the majority of his artistic career focusing…

René Laramee – Scapes

February 5 – 29, 2008 Scapes René Laramee Laramee’s abstractions of her home in Blandford, Nova Scotia René Laramee is an artist living on the South Shore who loves to experiment and explore. She works in watercolour, acrylic and mixed media and is inspired by the landscapes that surround her. Drawn to the abstract, she…

Claudia Mannion – Dear Diary: Selected Excerpts

October 8 – November 1, 2007 Dear Diary: Selected Excerpts Claudia Mannion Small pencil drawings on paper from Claudia Mannion’s daily sketch diary. The images vary from abstract to representational influenced by Mannion’s state of mind or events of the day.

Undercurrents: summer, 2007

Undercurrents: summer, 2007 Publication by Briony Carros, Bruce Campbell, Suzanne Crowdis, Ingrid Jenkner Producer: Co-published by Visual Arts Nova Scotia and MSVU Art Gallery Production/Release Date: July 2008 Classification: Catalogues 36 pages, 35 colour illustrations, Introduction by Briony Carros; Essays by Bruce Campbell, Suzanne Crowdis, Ingrid Jenkner. Documents three exhibitions Figuring in the Figure, In Here Out There and Elegies and Effigies, organized by Nova Scotian university…

Veith Street Gallery: Selected Members Works

July 3 – August 24, 2007 Veith Street Gallery: Selected Members Works Peter Blackwell, Greg Brumwell, John Carson, John Cookson, Michelle Cookson, Kristine Erglis, Jack Merrell, Kemi Morrison, Mike Parsons, Anna Quon, Lisa Richard, Michael Seary, Sheila Smith and Patsy Wallace. Veith Street Gallery Studio (VSG) and Pedway Picture Gallery (PPG) are venues where artists…

VANS Honour Roll – 2007

Founding Members and 1st Board of Directors of Visual Arts Nova Scotia Tom Bauld, Wayne Boucher, William Creighton, Hugh Eamon, Barrie Fraser, Alex Gigeroff, Joyce Hanson, Andrea MacIvor, Craig Mooney, Don Pentz, Ed Porter, Royce Porter Hatti Prentiss,  Felicity Redgrave , Ron Shuebrook, Marina Stewart and Charlotte Wilson-Hammond.

Paintings – Colleen Galloway

April 23 – May 14, 2007 Paintings Colleen Galloway “I am interested in painting diverse subject matters which are inspired by my life experiences,” states Colleen about her work. “I am drawn to nature’s unique beauty whether it be traveling deep inside a beautiful flower or capturing the luminosity of the Atlantic, Provencal or Tuscan…