More Ring, 2008. Copper, enamel, nickel silver, silver.Berkeley Brown’s jewellery makes me want to bake a cake. Her NSCAD graduation exhibition, Whisked Away, which opened October 26 at Anna Leonowens Gallery, combines the warmth of grandma’s kitchen with the technical expertise of a master baker. Decorative Comfort. Tea infuser locket, 2008. Copper, enamel, nickel silver, silver Predominantly designed with silver and enamel, Brown takes the shapes of tea infuser balls and turns them into precious lockets. “Flipping Pancakes,” a pendant shaped like a spatula, comes apart to reveal her father’s pancake recipe. Bottomless appetites will be satisfied with “More Ring,”
Anna Leonowens Gallery
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The rise of fall arts: visual arts
Nocturne October 17 at various locations, dusk-midnight, free, artgalleryofnovascotia.ca Last year’s inaugural Nocturne festival brought 5,000 people out to local streets and galleries from dusk to midnight. Following up on that success, this year’s after-dark art festival will feature 32 gallery spaces opening their doors and more than 30 artists setting up installations and performances […]
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Hot Summer Guide: Visual arts events
Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here Through August 23 Guelph-based artist Will Gorlitz begins a painting by looking for the telling detail. “When determining the actual subjects I wish to paint, a crucial consideration is that the subjects present some acutely visual feature,” he explains in an email. “Commonly, this involves the tactile materiality of […]
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Daniel Olson tosses his toys at Dal Art Centre
After a wildly successful and steamy time at SeaDogs last night, the Sound Bytes Festival fun continues this evening at the Dalhousie Art Centre. Montreal-based artist Daniel Olson, one of the artists in the Dal Art Gallery exhibition Resounding, is performing “Coloured Plates.” Olson has collected toy xylophones over the past 15 or so years, and in this performance he throws the coloured plates from those instruments onto the floor, one by one. I’ve watched the video and it’s mesmerizing. No two performances will ever be the same. Show starts at 6pm in the Sculpture Court. If you’re into
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Is that an Ann Pocket you’re wearing, or…
Last December at the NSCAD jewellery show in Seeds Gallery, I fell in love with Ann Pocket’s silver necklace, decked out with a moose, campfire and marshmallows, and a little silver match at the clasp. It comes in a wooden box, where you can prop up the pendant, light a tealight and a summer campfire […]
