My series Fortune Seeking, which received a creation grant from Nova Scotia’s Department of Culture and Heritage in 2009, is ready for posting here. Thanks again to Nova Scotia’s grants to artists program. I could not have undertaken this size of a project without their support. The series will be ongoing, as it has been both a challenge and a joy, and I do not want to call it complete just yet.
I’m excited to announce the completion of a collaborative project I’ve been working on with poet extraordinaire Wanda Waterman St. Louis. Our book, Echo Chamber, has been accepted into an exhibition of artists’ books and multiples at Eye Level Gallery in Halifax (show opens February 25th and runs through March.)
The annual Valentine’s Event at the Kings Theatre in Annapolis Royal held on Feb. 13th was an even greater success that last year, raising funds for both King’s Theatre and ARCAC.
Here is the poster I designed for them.
A series of tiny (approximately 5″ square) prints of mine are currently available at Argyle Fine Arts in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The theme is “The Deserted Toy Shop.” Hope you enjoy seeing them here! An expanded version of the series will be presented at Argyle in June, 2010.
I had the opportunity to design the poster (seen here) for the fall exhibition, Identity, at the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council, sponsored by Visual Arts Nova Scotia.
I also had two works in the exhibit; one was featured in the provincial paper, the Chronicle Herald, on October 29, 2009.
As summer faded to fall, I decided to revisit, reinvent, and re-create images that had been accumulating in my archive over the past twenty years or so that were either taken on vacation or created in studio during “vacation time.” Hope you enjoy the series: Vacation Snaps. (The sample shown here was taken at the William Wallace Tower in Scotland.)
"Woodswomen" from Women of the Forest
Exhibition at Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia: July 24-August 10
A collaborative series of work by artists Elizabeth Kenneday and Susan Malmström will have a debut exhibition at Argyle Fine Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia from July 24 through August 10, 2009.
Women of the Forest is a series of digitally produced pigment ink prints on paper based on the artists’ shared interest in fairy tales, feminism, and the disappearing wilderness. Fantasy elements woven throughout the images allow them to explore unsettling content in a compelling fashion. Informing the theme is the fact that both of them have chosen to live in rugged environments largely surrounded by forestland that can prove harsh at times — Northern California’s eastern Sierra Nevada and rural Nova Scotia — and that both were born and spent their formative years in urban/suburban Southern California (perhaps not coincidentally, home base to the epicenters of modern manufactured fantasy: Hollywood and Disneyland).
A desire to collaborate on a series despite being separated by thousands of miles led the artists to work together via email, with each digital image built layer upon layer. There were no limits as to what each artist could add to her layer before returning it to the other, and an image was considered a finished work of art by consensus. The images are meant to appear both realistic and dreamlike, prompting narratives within individual viewers’ own self-identity.
Argyle Fine Art Gallery is located at 1869 Upper Water Street, Halifax, 902-425-9456, or visit www.argylefa.tk.
Cabinet of Curiosities
This series was created for an exhibition of artists’ books in Halifax, and is presented as a booklet contained within a miniature cabinet. Click here to see all of the images. The exhibition, Between the Pages: The Artist’s Book, is at the Corridor Gallery through August, 2009.
Two photographs from my Beyond Words series were selected for purchase by The Nova Scotia Art Bank. Here is the mission of the Art Bank, from their website:
Chaos Theory
The works chosen for purchase were Chaos Theory and Loose Ends.
Fortune Seeking, my new series, has been awarded a generous creation grant by Nova Scotia Culture Division. The series of images will be directed by randomly chosen fortune cookie fortunes from a collection that has been accumulating over the last 20 years. It is exciting to get started on this work, especially with the backing and blessing that this grant bestows, and images will be posted here as they are created.
