Exhibit 315, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, 1096 Marginal Road The average right whale weighs between 54 and 72 tonnes; at Nocturne you’ll be given a pound of clay to make your own. It’s not much, but it’s what Andrea Puszkar and Marla Benton landed on as a tribute to the endangered mammals […]
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3D or bust: Douglas Coupland in Halifax
A crowd of dozens unfurls in a slowly-growing line while the smell of maple syrup wafts through the air. Necks crane, feet shuffle and arms ball up winter jackets. It feels like a slice of pure Canadiana—and that’s because it is, but not the huddle of cabane à sucre tourists it might sound like. The […]
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How does your garden grow?
It takes decades for a tall tree to grow, but Laura Jean Forrester managed to put together a whole garden in just two months. When we spoke to Forrester for the New Art issue in January, the NSCAD grad had just moved back to Halifax from Lunenburg. She’d been set to create a new body […]
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Lost and found art
I’ve you’ve ever walked past weird garbage and thought it was sort of beautiful, Lisa Cochrane feels you. Cochrane has curated a show opening opening Wednesday, July 4 the Chase Gallery at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia filled with the work of like minded artists. ReVISION, running to July 30, exploring what she calls […]
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Veronika Horlik’s Burn
Veronika Horlik has spent the last two years combining painting with ceramic sculpture to create works of art. She’s now showing off three of those pieces in her MFA thesis exhibition titled Burn. The show has three works to check out. Plotlog is an impressive sculpture that measures about four meters in length and is […]
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NSCAD students go flying
As you’re lugging that overstuffed bag through Robert Stanfield International Airport, take a breather and check out maquettes from NSCAD’s Sculptural Propositions class (located conveniently just past the Burger King). Led by Steve Higgins, eight students imagined a public sculpture for the airport, taking into consideration appropriate materials and budgets. Above: a piece by Jessica […]
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Sandler’s water works
If you happen to drive by Burnside in the next couple of days, stop at Velocity Machining and Welding (19 Pettipas) to see sculptor Ilan Sandler‘s newest piece, “The Vessel,” a 5.7-metre-tall, stainless-steel water pitcher. Sandler and Velocity are old co-conspirators; you may remember Sandler’s giant steel book with the float-away pages, which is now […]
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Harbour solutions
Weird things floating in the waters of city harbours are hardly unusual, so, at first glance, photographs of Doug Guildford’s nets and other sculptural pieces bobbing in the water against the Toronto skyline might not look out of the ordinary. Guildford, a Halifax-raised artist who’s made Toronto his home for 30 years, still strongly feels […]