She may call north end of Halifax home, but the woods are never far from Sarah Burwash’s imagination. “I’ve always been drawn to the wilderness,” says the 27-year-old artist and illustrator. Best known for her watercolour drawings of woodland clearings with playful critters, slender trees and bright-faced figures, Burwash moved to Halifax from the west […]
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Arts and recreation
Point Pleasant Park has long been known as a great place to picnic, to go on dates, to break up with someone and to clear your head. This weekend, thanks to the Eyelevel Gallery’s Public Performance Series, it’s also a place to see performance art. The park is no stranger to artistic ventures, from Shakespeare […]
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Searching for the Holy Well
Aimee Brown is looking at our beloved Point Pleasant Park much closer than your average dog-walking, marathon-training, park enthusiast. The interdisciplinary visual artist and research buff has been digging deep into history and “using the park as a little microcosm for performance action” as the artist in residence at the Park’s Gatekeeper’s Lodge since January. […]