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 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
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…
Kim Cain-Simmonds, Anna Wade Horsnell, Eleanor Clarke, Rae Smith, Carolyn Fish, Roxanne Smith, Colleen McKee and Ann McLauchlan
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.
MAY 18 – JUNE 25, 2009 LYNN ROTIN WAXWORKS Encaustics on wood; a combination of pigment and beeswax.
Works by Rae Smith, Gilbert van Ryckevorsel, Denise Soper, Darrin Auchterlonie, Becky Thompson, Kathy Richards, and Anke Holm
Anke Holm, Becky Thompson, Darrin Auchterlone, Denise Soper, Gilbert van Ryckevorsel, Rae Smith and Kathy Richards.
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…
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.
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,…
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…
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…