Hooper writes, “I walked out of my studio one day and was overwhelmed by the complexity of it all.” This complexity is what she investigates through her drawings, be it the complexity of a landscape, a human being, an idea, or the world at large. This process is further illustrated through the inclusion in the exhibition of many of her rough drafts and sketchbooks. Flipping through these jumbles of drawing and poetry, sketches and snippets of prose, one can imagine Hooper sitting at her desk in her studio, creating on the fly.

“What I find inspiring is looking at my many different interests and finding ways of linking them together and creating, like, a mapping of my interests, and threading disparate sources of inspiration, and then creating projects out of those inspirations,” Gallagher says. 

Alanna Baird’s artwork infiltrates the New Brunswick vernacular, while also sparking important conversations around marine ecology in this time of climate crisis. As a longtime inhabitant of the small coastal community of St. Andrews, NB, Baird has closely observed the changing shoreline beyond her home. She maintains a dedicated ritual of engagement with the liminal,...