From the Cradle of Its Race: Selections from the Heritage Collection, 1775-1965
Ericka Walker is an American-born artist currently teaching at NSCAD University whose large-scale works on local barns are well-known in the Annapolis Valley. ‘From the Cradle of Its Race’ is a new series of spectacular woodblock prints exploring the artistic, historical and future impacts of our collective past.
in the garden
For many cultures, the garden has been a metaphor for one-ness with the natural world and a place of repose, beauty and contemplation. Often constructed to create space for meditation, the garden has historically been a space in which ‘getting and spending’ is put at a distance. For Bree Hyland and Ian Funke-McKay, painting in their garden two hundred years after the Industrial Revolution has wrung itself out, a more porous relationship between ‘artificial’ and ‘natural’ life exists.
flow states: conversations with Water
A series of visual explorations in ink paintings, underwater photographs, and digital artworks by Epekwitk/PEI-based artist Monica Lacey that center connection, communication, and collaboration with Water.
Spectral Estates
Hilferink created this recent series of paintings and sculpture centring the concept that a house is not always a home.
Object Histories: Eyelevel Printed Matter Exhibition
OBJECT HISTORIES is a decentralized exhibition of printed-matter and multiples taking place online and at three locations across Nova Scotia.
In/Visible
During the last fifty years, Charlotte Wilson-Hammond has used her body as a way of accessing the strength, sensuality, vulnerability, beauty, and now the fragility of the female form, all part of the eternal cycle of birth, growth, regeneration, and death.
Interior Migrations: International Migrant Workers on Canadian Farmland
This photographic installation by Gu Xiong came to us after being at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and reflects Gu’s friendships and connections to migrant workers in a way that will be familiar to our agricultural community, and which provides an extraordinary portrait of the workers who are vital to the success of Canada’s food producers.
Arrival
Lindsay Dobbin presents an immersive installation of sound, poetry, and video, in this solo exhibition at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts.
alternate ecologies
Building on previous incarnations and exhibits of these works, which began life in outdoor and site-specific installations in Mexico and Ontario, Hassan and Benner’s work, especially in tandem, has never been more relevant.
The works speak to each other through reimaginings of propaganda and military trappings to lament human actions and to explore new ways of seeing. They invite you to look beyond the expected and in both pieces, centre the potent power of nature.