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Shore Time on Fogo Island

2 weeks ago | visualartsnews.ca | Shannon Webb-Campbell

By Shannon Webb-CampbellThe biannual gathering Shore Time on Fogo Island from September 26 to 29, 2024, was more than a coming together off an island in the North Atlantic, it was an invitation to the otherworldly. Organized by Fogo Island Arts, part of the longstanding Shorefast and international residency, Shore Time brings together artists, architects, ecologists, geologists, and writers to envision possible futures on an island off an island, a place far away from faraway.
Socially Engaged Art: On Making with Others

Sep 23, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Andrea Ritchie

There are many ways people are brought into the process of making art. Through my own art practice and experience with producing and participating in socially engaged art projects, I understand that collaboration, participation, and social engagement have the capacity to create transformative experiences and dynamic artwork. Yet, I have felt the edges of collaboration and the discontents of participation.
Eastern Edge: 40 Years of Art and Dancing on the Edge of the North Atlantic

Sep 22, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Eva Crocker

This summer marked the fortieth anniversary of Eastern Edge Gallery, Newfoundland’s only artist-run centre and the site of some of the wildest and most boldly political art exhibited in Newfoundland since the early 1980s. In preparation for celebrations, which took place in St. John’s in August, the gallery staff dug into their archives, hosted story-sharing circles, and put out a call for photographs to create a floor-to-ceiling mural commemorating four decades of rich and raunchy history.
Alan Syliboy’s The Journey So Far

Sep 22, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Shannon Webb-Campbell |Andrea Ritchie

Mi’kmaw artist Alan Syliboy’s retrospective The Journey So Far, curated by Pamela Edmonds at the Dalhousie Art Gallery (May 9 to August 11, 2024), spanned more than fifty years of work. The exhibition included paintings, collage, photography, music, print, mixed media, video, drums, and guitars and even a commissioned wall mural featuring a great horned serpent with red spots on a yellow spine. “It’s not a typical snake. It’s magic.
Daze Jefferies’s stay here stay how stay

Jun 19, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Kate Lahey |Andrea Ritchie

by Kate LaheyA group of over twenty middle school children pour excitedly out of the heavy glass gallery doors as curator Emily Critch, artist Daze Jefferies, and myself make our way toward Jefferies’s first major solo exhibition, stay here stay how stay at The Rooms Provincial Gallery in St. John’s. Jefferies’s joyful giggle whispers through the hard chamber of the building.
Open Call for Fall 2024 Issue

Apr 23, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Andrea Ritchie

We’re eager to hear from writers, artists, and critics to expand and deepen conversations inspired by the artistic vision of emerging and established artists who are pushing the boundaries of art and culture in the Atlantic. For this open call, we are seeking pitches for features, profiles, and exhibition reviews. We prioritize work that pushes back against white supremacy and colonialism.
Jenn Grant’s Something to Believe In at the Prow Gallery

Mar 21, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Shannon Webb-Campbell

Three-time JUNO Award nominated singer-songwriter Jenn Grant is primarily known as a musician, but she also holds a degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University with a focus in painting and drawing. In fact, her paintings and design work appear on some of her album covers. When Grant’s music touring career came to a standstill during the pandemic, she returned to the canvas at her home in Lake Echo, Nova Scotia.
Séamus Gallagher’s Candy-Coated Universe

Mar 20, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Morgan Mullin

Séamus Gallagher knows better than most how cringeworthy it can feel to call yourself an artist and how imposter syndrome can creep in when that’s the reply to a stranger’s asking what you do. But when I ask them the moment they knew for sure they were an artist, they don’t miss a beat delivering a time and date: Moncton, New Brunswick, 2011.
Kathy Hooper’s Mountains of Wonder and Tangles of Truth

Mar 20, 2024 | visualartsnews.ca | Jericho Knopp

It is a bit overwhelming to walk into Mountains of Wonder and Tangles of Truth: Kathy Hooper, a Retrospective at the Saint John Arts Centre. Often overshadowed by her husband, the late sculptor John Hooper, Kathy Hooper has had an equally, if not more, significant impact in the Canadian art world. Over the course of her six-decades-long career, Hooper has worked furiously, creating literal mountains of work from her home studio in Hampton, New Brunswick.
Open Call for Spring 2024 Issue

Oct 19, 2023 | visualartsnews.ca | Andrea Ritchie

The team at Visual Arts News is eager to hear from writers, artists and critics to expand and deepen conversations inspired by the artistic vision of emerging and established artists who are pushing the boundaries of art and culture in the Atlantic region. For this open call, we are seeking pitches for features, profiles and exhibition reviews. We prioritize work that pushes back against white supremacy and colonialism.