Amie Cunningham of Thief&Bandit discovered fashion design when she entered a T-shirt art contest. “It was really a bit of a happy accident falling into making and creating this brand,” says Cunningham, who has a masters degree in painting and sculpting. These featured Desert Floral tights would brighten up any rainy day—or that coffee date […]
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Ten great things about that Black Sabbath show
An incredible amount of excitement, denim vests and weed smoke filled the Metro Centre last night for Black Sabbath (with opener Reignwolf). It was a magical night, the general mood being exuberance and devil horns. Only saw one poor lad in a Dal sweatshirt being led out by security (right before “Iron Man”, no less! […]
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New Art – Jayme-Lynn Gloade
Jayme-Lynn Gloade is serious about her art and her culture. She organized the first Aboriginal Collective at NSCAD and they recently held an exhibit, Aboriginalities at the Anna Leonowens Gallery. Gloade’s contribution was a series of four photographs. Her series, titled “The 8th Movement,” represents Mi’kmaq legends through portraiture. A boy wearing a bear skin, […]
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New Art – Stephanie Yee
“Art-wise, I’m kind of all over the place,” says Stephanie Yee, who dabbles in performance art, installation pieces, and sculpture. “I’m drawn to stories and characters and a lot of my work comes from thinking about people’s experiences and referring to those in a very physical way.” Yee comes from a theatre background–she was enrolled […]
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New Art – Jesse Mitchell
“I like strange cultural products and mass produced stuff,” says Mitchell. In his industrial studio space above the Halifax Army Navy Store, Mitchell surrounds himself with VHS tapes, broken electronics, dusty Fisher Price toys and a selection of his completed work. Mitchell uses found objects to create installation pieces. “I conceptualize ways to fix things […]
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New Art – Dylan Fish
At first glance, Dylan Fish’s series Social Fabric looks like a bunch of Facebook photos printed onto cloth, but appearances can be deceiving: “It’s actually woven,” he says, “so what you’re looking at is exclusively black and white thread.” Social Fabric was made using a process called Jacquard weaving. The Jacquard loom, introduced in 1801 […]
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New Art – Beck Gilmer-Osborne
I FEEL GOOD home video from Beck Gilmer-Osborne on Vimeo. Beck Gilmer-Osborne is a person of lists: a self-identified dyke/fag/queer/feminist/non-binary trans* activist and a multidisciplinary artist working in video, performance, sculpture, installation, printed matter, photography and collaborative public events. Their recent show, I Feel Good, marks their graduation exhibition from NSCAD University where they completed […]
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Sarah & Craig
Who says high school sweethearts never make it? Not Sarah O’Brien and Craig Steeves. Through university, summers apart, masters degrees and internships, they’ve remained as tight as they were in their Fredericton High days. When working in geology in Tanzania, Sarah bought herself the bright blue Tanzanite stone that Craig would eventually pop the question […]
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Lucy & Ron
Lucy Sowerby never wanted a traditional wedding. So when her partner of almost 12 years, Ron Francis proposed with a ring inside a Kinder egg that had been carefully reassembled, it was entirely unexpected. “I thought at first that the ring was a Kinder prize,” says Lucy, “and I said something like ‘It’s actually kind […]
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Jenny & Pamela
When Pamela Mosher bought the rings for her and Jenny Johnston, she had it all planned— a romantic sunset proposal on Citadel Hill—but her nerves got the best of her. “I was so nervous about doing it that I ended up asking, at home, the same day I bought the rings,” she admits. Fortunately, that’s […]
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Pamela & Ryan
It’s like a scene straight out of a romantic movie—on a last-minute trip to Paris, Pamela Duggan and Ryan Wells were walking along the Pont des Art bridge admiring all the padlocks that cover it as symbols of a couple’s love when Ryan dropped down on one knee. To Pam’s surprise, their own padlock had […]
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Saba & Doug
Saba Chishti and Doug Belding have talked every day since they met in January 2010, making it mighty hard for Doug to sneak off from Saint John to Moncton to buy an engagement ring without Saba finding out. But he pulled it off, and at the end of a long night out–with a ring burning […]