A locally based designer, White loves “all things colourful, retro and metal” and has worked with Toyota, VH1 Latin America, MTV, Wired magazine and Armada Skis. He’s currently working with Reckless Love, a hard rock band from Finland, developing their identity and CD design for their upcoming album on Universal, and has also been approached […]
Visual Art
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Rwandan history channelled through art
When Rwandan artists Bill “Coco” Ruterana and Jean Yves Masengo sit down to talk about their work, it takes only minutes for Masengo to start finishing Ruterana’s sentences, and Ruterana to finish Masengo’s. The two men met almost 15 years ago, just after the Rwandan genocide. “Artists in Rwanda, you can count them on two […]
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Nocturne’s building inspection
For Nocturne, people aren’t just invited to look at art, but to look at architecture through art. Some of this year’s artists will insert their work into vacant spaces. Others will fill in the void left by demolition (or the memory before massive renovation). And still others will project onto and into buildings currently in […]
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Gerald Ferguson’s legacy
New York-based conceptual painter and sculptor Rachel Beach manages to get one sentence in before choking up. “In terms of being influential on students that then go out into the world and have a certain idea about how art gets made,” she says, “there’s no other influence that’s had any single larger effect than the […]
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Nocturne by sight
Sense it Saturday night: This year Nocturne offers even more public art
happenings: from six to midnight, with 30 galleries and 34 special projects, the streets of Halifax will be overflowing with images, performance and energy. To help get your night started, we’ve mapped out two routes. Follow the visual arts trail.
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The sounds of Nocturne
Sense it Saturday night: This year Nocturne offers even more public art
happenings: from six to midnight, with 30 galleries and 34 special projects, the streets of Halifax will be overflowing with images, performance and energy. To help get your night started, we’ve mapped out two routes. Choose the audio trail.
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Compassionate photo display on Spring Garden Road
Shari Tucker, Nova Scotia Now 27, Ryan Joudrey has been cancer-free for over five years. Although shy at times, he was determined to overcome the obstacles facing him during his fight with acute lymphocytic leukemia. He says, “I sincerely doubt I would be alive today without the love and support of family, friends, doctors, and […]
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Ariella Pahlke’s smoke signals
Living in rural Halifax, filmmaker Ariella Pahlke is used to sounds of the wild. And not just the chorus of chirping crickets and shushing leaves, but the piercing squeal of the real wild ones—drivers burning rubber. The activity, also called laying a patch, burning out, squealing tires or simply just givin’er, was foreign to Pahlke. […]
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Kate Beaton’s drawing lessons
Sitting in Uncommon Grounds on Argyle, she is hunkered over a new comic about Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre. Her brown eyes are hidden behind her brown hair as she inks in her pencil drawings of the “celebrated liberator of South America” and his right-hand man. Kate Beaton’s comic, Hark! A Vagrant, covers […]
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Magical Nomi Chi
Nomi Chi is intently sketching an animal skull on a wall between several of her paintings when I arrive to meet her at Utility Gallery. I’m hesitant to disturb her, waiting several minutes before she finally takes a step back from the drawing. It’s a display of the sort of commitment that’s been necessary to […]
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Susan Bozic is picture perfect
Susan Bozic is stuck at the border, on her way from Vancouver to Seattle, where she’ll catch a flight the next day to Aspen. But Bozic’s not going to ski the slopes among stars and celebrities. (After all, it’s the first week of July.) An exhibition of her work, The Dating Portfolio, is on at […]
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Angela Carlsen captures buildings’ sleeping beauty
Angela Carlsen is wearing a hardhat, bodysuit and steel-toed boots, preparing for a moment she’s been anticipating for months. Entering the abandoned Halifax Infirmary has become an unshakeable obsession of hers. She’s stared longingly at the infirmary for days, while working at her day job at Atlantic News. She pleaded with the head of the […]
