In the summer of 2010, exhibiting artist – James MacSwain – traveled to the south of China to Yunnan Province visiting the cities of Dali and Jinghong. From Jinghong, MacSwain traveled into Laos where he took a boat down the Mekong River to arrive at the Buddhist temple city of Luang Prabang. MacSwain explains that: this exhibition consists of photographs taken…
Merydie Fjarlie, Fabienne Leydecker, Tom Attebery, Violet Rosengarten, Jeremy Akerman, Rae Smith
November 8 – December 12, 2010 Lorraine Endicott Cracked Jug/Imperfect Life A cracked blue jug bought at the local flea market became a temporary obsession and a metaphor for exhibiting artist Lorraine Endicott about life. Endicott explains that “Life is not perfect. You work with what you are given and you may find beauty, anyhow”.…
Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) and the Hub were both pleased to announce their inaugural collaboration: The Hub Gallery in October 2010. The Hub Gallery’s premiere exhibition will take place from October 16th, 2010 to January 7th, 2011. This premiere exhibition features visual artists Qahtan Ibrahim, Judith Leidl, Justine Kerr, Barbara Carter, Andrea Pottyondy, Charlotte…
Traditional Wa(y)ves
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Traditional Wa(y)ves was a group exhibition that featured artists Helen Verbanz, David Dahms, Peter Dyhkuis, Merydie Fjarlie, Allison Pinsent Baker, Sarah Burwash and Joanna Close, and was curated by Crystal Melville, Programming Coordinator at Visual Arts Nova Scotia. Traditional Wa(y)ves explores the contemporary morphing and weaving of the Nova Scotia landscape and its economy. Featured artists…
The Cape Breton Regional VANS exhibition titled Saturday Night/Sunday Morning: Wake Up to New Art featured many of Cape Breton’s most well-known artists, including Roger Beaudry, Lori Secouler-Beaudry, Carolyn Ritchie Bedford, Kenny Boone, Lynn Ellis, Teena Marie Fancey, Celeste Friesen-Nikkel, Brian David Geary, Basma Kavanagh, Carol Kennedy, Gordon Kennedy, Diane Lewis, Patsy MacKinnon, Susan MacDonald,…
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
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.
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.
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.