A View from the Easel
Featuring: Dorothy Caldwell
| "My work is a map of land and memory. I am interested in the landmarks that give a sense of place and how humans mark and visualize the land. The early surveyors, of Canada, measured and structured the land mathematically, but in the squares of the grid, they made notations on certain rare plant growth, unusual geological formations, and other points that they were personally drawn to. Identifying my own personal landmarks, through gathering, touching, and recording is how I create a sense of place. The vocabulary for my work is drawn from studying textile traditions and ordinary stitching practices such as darning, mending and patching. I am drawn to cloth that has been repaired, and reconstructed and in that ongoing process encodes time and the richness of lives lived." |
A View from the Easel
Featuring: Gary Michael Dault
Northumberland Festival of the Arts Interview by Shane Joseph
'Seeking the Periphery' Exhibition Launch @ Ryerson University
https://dasxhibitions.ca/Seeking-the-Periphery-Intro-1
A View from the Easel
Featuring: Nell Tenhaaf
A pioneer in electronic media art, Nell Tenhaaf talks about her early influences, the evolution of her work through a range of technologies, and some aspects of today’s digital context that shape artists’ concerns.
A View from the Easel Featuring Ixchel Suarez
In Praise of Shadows:
Musings on the Materiality of Light
A short talk on light and shadow @ Ryerson University, Department of Architectural Science.
A View from the Easel
Featuring: Bob Omar Tunnoch
Musician/Songwriter/Visual Artist Bob ‘Omar’ Tunnoch was born in Ottawa in 1953. The natural world has been his life-long passion and is a constant source of inspiration for him.
A View from the Easel
Featuring: Richard Watts
A View from the Easel
Featuring: Frances Ferdinands
In 2015 and 2017, Ferdinands returned to Sri Lanka to be mentored in traditional arts and crafts. There she studied temple mural painting, bobbin lace making, and mask making. This experience has served to enrich Ferdinands’ cultural understanding of her Sri Lankan heritage and her sense of place within it.
Her most recent paintings, the “Cultural Intersections” series hover between representation and abstraction and feature a mix of Western, Middle Eastern, and South Asian imagery, patterning, and historical and contemporary references. Colourful, active and densely layered they celebrate within a contemporary framework the long and overlapping traditions of decoration and craftsmanship that are the underpinnings of many non-western cultures.