Charlotte Wilson-Hammond Exhibition In/Visible Comes to Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond with a piece from In/Visible. Photo credit: Elissa Barnard

Talent Trust board member Charlotte Wilson-Hammond brings her exhibition In/Visible to Memory Lane Heritage Village on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.

Charlotte has been active in Nova Scotia’s arts community for the past 30 years, serving on the Board of Governors of NSCAD University, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Conference of the Arts, and Canadian Artists Representation (CARFAC). 

She’s also our past chair, and continues to be a respected and active advocate for the arts.

In 2004 Charlotte was awarded the Portia White Prize, a $25,000 award honouring a senior artist in the Province of Nova Scotia. She used part of the award to establish the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Scholarship, which is administered through the Talent Trust.

In/Visible explores the human condition: fragility, ageing, beauty and strength, incorporating images of her own body in the work. 

In/Visible was first exhibited at ARTsPLACE Gallery in Annapolis Royal earlier this year. The exhibition will be at St. F.X. University Gallery November 15 to December 17.

In/Visible
Opening Saturday, September 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Exhibition runs September 10 - 16, 2:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Admission: free

The Clam Factory
Memory Lane Heritage Village
28 Clam Harbour Road
Lake Charlotte, Nova Scotia

To learn more about Charlotte and her work, visit her website at charlottewilsonhammond.net.

In/Visible: Recent Work by Charlotte Wilson-Hammond

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond is a longtime supporter and current board member of the Talent Trust. Her recent work, In/Visible, is at ARTsPLACE Gallery, 396 St. George Street in Annapolis Royal, until July 1.

For the past thirty years Charlotte has been an active advocate for the arts, both provincially and nationally. She was a founding member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Eye Level Gallery and the Coalition For Arts and Culture.  

She’s served on the Board of Governors of NSCAD University, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Conference of the Arts, and Canadian Artists Representation (CARFAC). She’s ex officio to the Board of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, as well as serving on the Board of the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia. 

Charlotte currently sits on the board of the Talent Trust, and is our past chair.

In 2004 Charlotte was awarded the Portia White Prize, a $25,000 award honouring a senior artist in the Province of Nova Scotia.  With part of the award she established the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Scholarship administered through the Talent Trust. She's pictured here with Curtis Botham, the 2017 winner of the award.

We’re very grateful for her generosity, dedication, and her tireless work. 

Three years ago, Charlotte began a new series of conté drawings and shadow photograph/print/drawings, using herself as the subject. In this new work, she reflects on the fragility, vulnerability and yet the beauty and strength of this timeless human condition, noting that one of the most mystifying aspects of aging is that one’s presence is diminished within the general public, often to the point of invisibility. 

The final body of work, which can be seen at ARTsPLACE, consists of large (3'x 4 1/2') drawings using photographs of Charlottes’s shadow in the landscape. These are then digitally manipulated, printed on semi-transparent mylar with the resulting image then worked with coloured pencil.

For more information on the exhibition and directions to the gallery, visit the ARTsPLACE website.

Marley Johnson's exhibition opens on January 10, 2018 at the Craig Gallery in Dartmouth

Join Marley Johnson, former Talent Trust scholarship recipient at 

The Craig Gallery

Opening
January 10, 2018
from 7 - 9 p.m.

Exhibition from 
Jan 11- 28, 2018

Marley Johnson will exhibit his new painting series at the Craig Gallery until January 28, 2018.

From the Craig Gallery's website: 
Artist statement: My paintings investigate the agency of colour through a vibrant, messy and precarious sensibility. These works are suggestive landscapes, investigating the inner exploration of indexical mark making, working with a formal and vital approach, I have been influenced by modes of expressionism, experimenting with its potential. The shapes and contours implies a playfulness, exuberance, and a sense of effervescence or froth which forms in-between the push//pull of tides. By breaking down the impression of the gestures, leaving it raw and undefined I hope to reveal something transparent about the process of painting and color.

Bio: Marley Johnson completed his BFA at NSCAD university in 2015, he also studied at Cooper Union in New York City on an exchange. Upon graduating Marley was awarded a residency in Lunenburg NS, where he spent a year working within a ceramics community. During that year he also received a Talent Trust scholarship. Marley is currently doing his MFA at Concordia university in Montreal. 

For opening hours and more information please visit the Craig Gallery's website at http://www.alderneylanding.com/gallery/

Jason Skinner presents 'Riding the Rails' at Nocturne Halifax October 14, 2017

Nocturne at the Museum

information and photo: nocturnehalifax.ca

Andrea Tsang Jackson, Jason Skinner

Nocturne October 14, 2017

6 PM - midnight

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21,

1099 chemin Marginal Rd

"Nocturne at the Museum" highlights our tenuous connections to our past: our changing memories of our collective past as we move further away from it, and our reimagining and reframing of our past as we try to capture something that we can no longer quite grasp. Two artists and one organization will each provide unique interpretations of these themes in the context of the Museum’s unique position as a National Historical Site: a point of arrival for over a million immigrants, as well as a point of departure for many of these immigrants to other parts of Canada.

The two artists whose work considers these questions are Andrea Tsang Jackson and Jason Skinner. There will also be a project presented by Library and Archives Canada.

Andrea Tsang Jackson’s proposed work "Georges Island Quilted Over" is a participatory illuminated paper quilt project that becomes an opaque window.

Jason Skinner will animate the colonist car outside the Museum with his work "Riding the Rails" a series of portraits exploring the possible worlds and lives of immigrants who arrived to Canada by Pier 21, but left for other parts of Canada.

Library and Archives Canada will explore "Going Dark: Extinguished Lighthouses of Atlantic Canada," a presentation which exposes the importance of archives to understanding our changing landscape and our understanding of ourselves.

Still Images
Moving Images
Performance
Sculpture/3D
Audience Interaction
Family Friendly

nocturnehalifax.ca

Sarah Mosher with 'Inter-Harbor Communication Co.' at Nocturne Halifax October 14, 2017

Inter-Harbour Communication Co.

information and photo: nocturne.ca

Sarah Mosher, visual artist and Ben Mosher

Nocturne October 14, 2017

6 PM - midnight

Halifax Marriott Harbourfront,
1919 Upper Water St

Reimagining and rediscovering early inter-harbour communications through a playful and interactive experience.

"Inter-Harbour Communication Company" connects to a fragment of our partially forgotten heritage; Nova Scotia was home to one of the largest early high-speed communication networks in the world. Visual telegraphy allowed messages to be delivered at speeds unimaginable in a world of letters and post, taking hours not days to reach their destination. By reenacting the methods of these early messaging systems, this project playfully subverts their colonial roots and allows public participation in a communication system built on the foundation of British military communication methods.

In 1795, under the direction of British commander Edward Duke of Kent, troops were made to construct a communication network in our province. The nature of this network was a line of signalling towers using a fiercely-guarded coded language of flags and balls on masts. The extent of the network was one of the largest visual semaphore networks in the world, stretching from Sambro Island to Fredricton. Kent's vision for his visual telegraph network was for it to allow him to relay messages to Quebec City without his need to leave Halifax. This convoluted and costly venture only remained viable for a few years before being discontinued at large with The Duke of Kent's departure from Halifax in the early 1800's.

This system also allowed for inter-harbour communication between commercial and military groups. "Inter-Harbour Communication Company" allows the opening of inter-harbour communications through the use of visual signs and rudimentary phone lines. This playful engagement with communication methods portends a possibility for the distortion and allows an openness of lines of dialogue between the two sides of the harbour.

Audio
Performance
Audience Interaction
Family Friendly

nocturnehalifax.ca

Brandt Eisner is a part of Rørpost - International Art Collabroation Exhibition Sep 16 - October 4, 2017 at Discovery Centre Art Gallery, Halifax

Visual Artist Brandt Eisner will show his work at 

Rørpost
International Art Collaboration

September 16 - October 4, 2017

Opening:
Saturday, September 16
at 5:30 p.m.

Wilsons Featured Exhibit Gallery at the Discovery Centre

24 Nova Scotian artists (Art Focus Group) collaborated with 24 Danish artists from Esbjerg (Blå Døre Group).

Each started a painting then sent it to their collaborator in Denmark to finish it and vice versa. After the exchange each artist created a response piece to reflect our project experience. In total 96 works were created.

You can enjoy the exhibition in Halifax until October 4, 2017 before it travels to Denmark. 

Wilsons Featured Exhibit Gallery at the Discovery Centre,
1215 Lower Water Street in Halifax from
September 16 - October 4, 2017.  

You can find more information about the show at: 
http://thediscoverycentre.ca/experience/featured-exhibit/

Elinor Whidden is part of a group show at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, ON until October 29, 2017

Elinor Whidden is a part of Re-enact at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, ON.  
from 
July 6 - October 29, 2017
Janice Laking Gallery

She is showing her buffalo pile: Head-Smashed-In-Engine-Block-Buffalo-Jump in conversation with a group of amazing artists. This show is a critical look at myths of Canadian nationalism.

You can find more information and images of the show at:
http://maclarenart.com/exhibitions/re-enact-sarah-ciurysek-michael-farnan-meryl-mcmaster-emma-nishimura-krista-belle-stewar

Join Brandt Eisner at the Marigold Cultural Centre, Truro for his solo show, "Shirts Vs Skins 2 - Curveball" Opening July 5, 2017

Join Brandt Eisner at the Marigold Cultural Centre for his solo show, "Shirts Vs Skins 2 - Curveball" 

Opening Reception

July 5 at 7 p.m.

The Marigold Cultural Centre

605 Prince Street, Truro NS

Exhibition will continue until July 30, 2017.

This exhibition will include selected pieces from his first "Shirts Vs Skins" show, which was held at Swoon Fine Art in 2013. Since that time, he has worked on new pieces which continue on the theme of masculinity and identity, within the narrative of sports, childhood, and the expectations of fitting into social "norms".

The Marigold Cultural Centre is open 

Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

605 Prince Street, Truro NS

For additional info call 1 902 897 4004

Alice MacLean, visual artist in the VANS Corridor Gallery May 11-28, 2015

Alice MacLean

Alice MacLean at www.alicemaclean.com

semblance of a connection

May 11-28, 2015

The Corridor Gallery
1113 Marginal Road, Halifax

Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm.

Recently, Alice returned from a year abroad in Scotland where she took part in an Artist in Residence, and exhibition opportunities in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Since returning to Nova Scotia, she has renovated a studio space in Dartmouth. She has upcoming opportunities planned in Halifax, teaches from her studio and is participating in the Halifax Art Battle finals in June.
Find more about Alice at http://www.alicemaclean.com/

Located inside the Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) office at the Halifax Seaport, since 2000, the Corridor Gallery is complimented by a historical legacy of Nova Scotia culture, simple yet modern architectural elements and an array of current cultural activity in the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia office. The Corridor Gallery is located at 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia and is open Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm.

Sarah Burwash at Point Pleasant Park

GATES FOR SOJOURN Sarah Burwash, HRM’s artist-in-residence at Point Pleasant Park, will be spending the next several weeks creating a series of drawings, animations and park-based installations.

The narratives in Burwash’s drawings will come to life in various forms and mediums nestled in different corners of the parks for the public to encounter and uncover and will be presented at the end of June. OPEN STUDIO HOURS: Every Thursday from 4-7 pm for the month of May and June. GATEKEEPER’S LODGE SOCIAL CLUB: Burwash will be hosting ping-pong at the lodge every Wednesday from 7-9 pm until the end of June.
http://sarahburwash.com/

M.E. Sparks at VANS Corridor Gallery

Image: Google Images (detail), 2014, charcoal on paper, 24 x (8” x 15”)

VANS

corridor gallery Image M.E. Sparks June 5 - 26, 2014

Emerging New Glasgow based painter M.E. Sparks exhibits a series of drawings derived from Google Image searching a previous work, on view in the corridor gallery from June 5 – 26. Describing her process of abstraction, Sparks explains:

Google Images is created using Google’s reverse image search capabilities. The source image for each drawing is derived from googling a digital image of an existing drawing, resulting in a series of progressively disparate images (much like the game “Telephone”). While Google Images does not recognize the subject matter of each drawing, “visually similar images” are found through recurring formal and abstract qualities. Through the removal of original context and connotation, the images are further objectified and abstracted by Google Images’ search engine algorithms. This work explores the idea of instant and universal access to unlimited imagery, illustrating the ever-growing gap between past and present modes of image sourcing.

M.E. Sparks holds a BFA, 2013 from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, NS. She is currently an artist in residence for the 2013-2014 NSCAD – New Glasgow Community Studio Residency Program. In September 2014 she will begin her Master of Applied Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC. Sparks is a current recipient of Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant and Nova Scotia Talent Trust Scholarship, as well as the Gordon Smith Painting Scholarship (Sept. 2014). Her recent work explores the categorical grey area between abstraction and representation. As a painter, she is interested in the relevance, persistence and variability of the medium.
www.mesparks.com

Located inside the Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) office at the Halifax Seaport, since 2000, the Corridor Gallery is complimented by a historical legacy of Nova Scotia culture, simple yet modern architectural elements and an array of current cultural activity in the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia office. The Corridor Gallery is located at 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia and is open Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm.

Visual Arts Nova Scotia advances the visual arts through leadership, education, and communication.

For further information regarding the exhibition, please contact:
Becky Welter-Nolan
Programming Coordinator
Visual Arts Nova Scotia
1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, NS B3H 4P7
902.423.4694    1.866.225.8267   f: 902.422.0881
communicate@visualarts.ns.ca