Pattern Clash: Andrew Cairns
Creating spaces for projection + finding freedom in paint
“It can be powerful and provocative to bring decoration in. It’s unexpected and not always seen as high fine art."
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Magazine Launch Party!
Join us at the Visual Arts News magazine launch party for a toast, snacks, and 3D glasses on Thursday, May 17th, 6 – 8pm at the Art Bar +Projects, 1873 Granville Street in Halifax. We’re celebrating 40 years of Visual Arts News with a special anniversary issue packed with more local content, including Nova Scotia’s Future...
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Lou Sheppard: Spaces Between
Exploring the undefinable + unspoken
Living and working in K’jiputuk (Halifax), Lou Sheppard uses performance and media installation to explore the rifts between human experience and our attempts to define our place in the world. Sheppard turns data sets, medical texts and geographic information into movements of drawn line, dance and music. Their work tugs and pulls at the structures...
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Redessiner les marges
Mario Doucette et l’identité acadienne vue de l’extérieur
Nous avons seulement eu une perspective de notre histoire, c’est la perspective des British. Les livres d’histoire ont été écrits d’après leurs témoignages.
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Neon Defiance
Stephanie Wu on Internet culture, self care and the role of allies today
"For a long time, the Internet felt like the safest space to have conversations about race, gender, sexuality and mental health, when the communities I was brought up in shamed these things."
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Redrawing the Margins
Mario Doucette + the Acadians as outsiders
"In my paintings I highlight heroes that people should know who we don’t learn about in school. We didn’t know that there was an Acadian resistance."
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Clay Rebellion
Michael Flaherty + the politics of making
"My interpretation of art history is that craft is conceptual art. Craft was a whole new field invented by certain artists as a reaction to the industrial revolution."
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Beyond a seat at the table
Black Nova Scotian artists confront the whitewashing of our art scene
Black contemporary artists constantly have to explain themselves to be accepted into the dominant framework. Their work is often defined as activism, without their consent, merely because it is presented from their own worldview.
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Brendan Fernandes’ hybrid ghosts
The Kenyan-born artist re-animates lost worlds
"For me growing up in East Africa and living in the Western world, when I first came, there was always this idea that I was exotic."
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Indigenous artists vs. Paul Kane’s controversial legacy
Exploring depictions of indigenous people in art history archives
Visual Arts News' research intern explores the legacy of two NFB films from the '70s—One film portrayed Indigenous people in visual art, while the other depicted Indigenous people as visual art.
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