Daniel Hutchinson: Shades of black
Bright Black bends light and space
Daniel Hutchinson explores the artistic possibilities of black paint, sculpted with striations that capture or reflect light in ways that create the illusion of space.
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Looking back: Our version of “women in the arts” in the 70’s
Visual Arts News' research intern reflects on a 1977 reading list
The 70's art world "was a desert for women! Let alone any person of colour!” But in 1977, in the second issue of Visual Arts News, we published a list of publications focusing on "women in the arts." Our research intern Chris Shapones reflects on the impact of that list, what endures and what could be added today.
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Looking back, Looking forward
Get to know our new research intern
Meet Visual Arts News' new research intern, who's going to be trawling through our archives revisiting all the stories we've told about the visual arts scene in Atlantic Canada over the past 40 years.
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Call for Artist Pages
Visual Arts News invites all Atlantic Canadian print media/paper-based artists to create new works for our Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the magazine. The bonus issue is scheduled to be released in December 2017. We will commission up to three artists to create new work that focuses on the theme of “connecting the past and...
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Holding space with Rachel Beach
Mid Sentence's works come to life in SMU Art Gallery
That these pieces “live” as they do is overwhelmingly apparent in Mid-Sentence; they exist in conversation with each other across distance and time, a living interaction, and they evoke a sense beyond the physically sculptural, beyond image, to live in relation to the viewer.
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New Found Lands magnifies the margins
Artists pay homage to the Afro-Carribean voices the history books ignore
With New Found Lands, curators Pamela Edmonds and Bushra Junaid have reimagined a narrative by magnifying its margins.
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Walking With Our Sisters pays homage to missing and murdered Indigenous women
Community members commemorate each individual life lost: "They are sisters, mothers, aunties, daughters, cousins, grandmothers, wives and partners. They have been cared for, they have been loved, they are missing and they are not forgotten."
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Mocean Dance animates its past in lightening speed
The Masterworks winner has helped shape contemporary dance in Atlantic Canada
At fifteen years, the 2016 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award winner Mocean Dance is one of the longest surviving contemporary dance companies in Atlantic Canada and well-known for its highly physical, collaborative work.
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Flesh and fiber
WhiteFeather Hunter takes bio art to new frontiers
WhiteFeather Hunter is creating living textiles: using her own hair, silk or gut sutures and mini 3D-printed looms and crochet hooks to weave scaffolding upon which connective tissue can foster.
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Exploring the landscape with Samuel Thulin’s “situated composition”
Samuel Thulin employs granular synthesis to create a sound art piece for Songlines
For me, sound and landscape go hand in hand. We travel through life being highly influenced by the sounds in our environment. Although hearing is not at the highest point of the sensual hierarchy, the sensuous space of sound is a powerful knowledge position to work from. Sound is used in medicine to determine the...
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