photography

“Weird Scenes From The Diamond Mine” by Gary Castle

In Weird Scenes From The Diamond Mine photographer Gary Castle exhibits new altered photographic work that explores his lockdown environment. See Weird Scenes From The Diamond Mine in the Corridor September 3 – 29. Can’t make it to the Corridor in person? Check out the video tour of the exhibition on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q_yQUkRGXn4. Of the…

“Working Girls” by Liam Ross

Working Girls is a series of instant photographs by artist Liam Ross that explore the ephemeral labour of drag performers in Halifax. Backstage moments, rather than stage performances, are emphasized: preparing makeup and costumes, travelling to gigs, breaks between acts, and dressing room antics. The resulting photographs are at times compelling, intimate, and revealing. Make…

“How It Is, How It Was” by Shannon Donovan

Having grown up in the Sydney Mines area, interdisciplinary artist Shannon Donovan is fascinated by remnants of the former industrial areas, the associated stories and the potential loss of knowledge with passing generations. In How It Is, How It Was, her exhibition of photography at the Corridor Gallery, Donovan explores these sites of industry and…

“You are innocent when you dream” by Gary Castle

In the current exhibition at the Corridor Gallery, established artist Gary Castle presents his recent altered and manipulated photographs, which bring the fragments of dreams into focus. Castle was inspired by author and artist Peter London’s quote, “There is a lovely moment that occurs often as we slide into sleep, at the transitional zone between…

Carl Snyder – Artist Profile

Carl Snyder received a B.A. and M.L.S. from McGill. Photography had long been of interest so, while working as a librarian, he started moonlighting as a darkroom technician at a commercial photography studio in Montreal. Soon he was assisting on camera and later was hired as a freelance product photographer. Freelancing continued with a move…

“Postcards from the Island” – Gary Castle

Lantz-based artist Gary Castle exhibits haunting photographs of the historic little peninsula known as Horseshoe Island. Postcards from the Island is at the Corridor Gallery April 4 – 27. Describing the work on view, Castle explains: Horseshoe Island beach, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, was a very popular summer spot on weekends. Photographs…

Memory Series – Lydia Hunsberger

Emerging artist Lydia Hunsberger exhibits her recent series of photographs that examine the theme of memory in relation to space. Hunsberger has documented locations in which she has allowed a thin white veil to blow through or partially cover the landscape seen by the camera lens. Memory Series is on view in the Corridor Gallery…

Urban Paper- Frankie Macaulay

Emerging artist Frankie Macaulay creates carefully executed composite images through the collection of images of decay. Through this process of collection, Macaulay constructs imagined spaces, and makes them real through building physical three-dimensional objects then placing those objects in situ through photographs. This exhibition will be on display from November 9 through December 10 and is curated by…

Hannah Minzloff selected as Antigonish VANS in Residence artist

Visual Arts Nova Scotia is partnering with The Antigonish Town & County Library and The ASAP Artist Run Centre to provide a five-week residency. It will involve the artist in both their own work, and in workshops, talks and open studios with community members. We are excited to announce that Hannah Minzloff has been selected to take on this opportunity.

Kas Stone – August Featured Artist

Kas Stone spent her formative years on the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. This sparked a passion for bleak coastal scenery and wild weather that has sustained her spirit and inspired her photography ever since. After a twenty-year stint ‘learning the ropes’ in Toronto, Kas now makes her home in Dublin Shore, Lunenburg County, where she runs a studio gallery and teaches courses in digital imaging. Her work is inspired by our wild coastal scenery with its vast expanse of sea and sky and its smaller textural and colour details.

Image: unseen paradise N0.1, photograph by Jean-René Leblanc

Jean-René Leblanc artist talk at McCarthy Hall, NSCC Truro

Visual Arts Nova Scotia is delighted to present an artist talk by visiting artist Jean-René Leblanc of Calgary, AB, in collaboration with Viewpoint Gallery and the NSCC Truro’s 14th annual Animediafest. Taking place Friday, March 6th, from 3:30-5:00pm at the NSCC Truro’s McCarthy Hall, this free artist talk is offered as part of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s En Route Artist Talk Series.

Suzanne Gauthier, Rain On Fox River, digital photograph, 2014

Suzanne Gauthier – October Artist Profile

Suzanne Gauthier was born in Lorette Manitoba and studied and taught at the University of Manitoba (BFA Honours 1969). In 1989 she relocated to Halifax to teach full time at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her work is based in drawing, printmaking and collage, and has recently been engaged in photographs of moving water. See her studio exhibition Acquainted with Light, October 16-31, as part of Photopolis.

Brights in Series: VANS in the Hub

Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents Brights in Series, the 6th edition of VANS in the HUB featuring a broad range of artworks by Nova Scotian visual artists: Ellen Moershel, Violet Rosengarten, Jacqueline Steudler, and Kate Stinson.

September 2012 Featured Artist – Adrian Fish

Adrian Fish is a Toronto born photo-based artist and educator currently living in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Adrian holds an MFA from York University, as well as undergraduate accreditation from OCAD University in Toronto and the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, ON.  His work has been shown nationally at numerous public institutions,…

Photos of China and Laos – James MacSwain

In the summer of 2010, exhibiting artist – James MacSwain – traveled to the south of China to Yunnan Province visiting the cities of Dali and Jinghong. From Jinghong, MacSwain traveled into Laos where he took a boat down the Mekong River to arrive at the Buddhist temple city of Luang Prabang. MacSwain explains that: this exhibition consists of photographs taken…