Temple Bates
“The sensibility has me fuddling back through my memories for drawings by Dr. Seuss, whose creations, like those in a Bates painting, look uncannily like self-portraits with fur added. Bates takes figures from childhood imaginings — sea monsters, wooly toy-creatures, over-sized facial features — and puts them in the context of classical portraiture and naturalist landscape. This synthesis, I believe, encapsulates one of the major dialogues in modern art we’re having today about maturity and youth.” — Lee Henderson
Jennifer Bélanger is interested in the accidental observer and the ordinary and daily as matter for art. Sometimes she thinks art ruined her life. On the dreary days when inspiration reels and the tip of her nose shadows her line of vision, she writes herself letters of encouragement and sends them in the mail. Bélanger has a BFA from Université de Moncton and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Sean Booth has been making visual arts and music in the New Brunswick area and beyond for twenty five years. He has self – released one solo album (Carbon, 2004) and a collaborative album with the electronic artist Paranerd (Silk, 2007); a third album is planned for release August-September 2011, entitled ‘Mountain’.
http://seanwbooth.bandcamp.com/
http://www.myspace.com/seanwbooth
http://www.myspace.com/seanboothparanerd
Léandre Bourgeois holds a BA in classical music from the University of Moncton. Passionate about sound, computers and electronic music, his compositional style often involves the fusion of acoustic instruments and synthesized sounds. He is currently working as a freelance sound engineer.
Kate Boyle is an interdisciplinary artist living in Sackville N.B. Finishing her BFA at Mount Allison University; her work is based on the connection between personal and universal conflict.
Amanda Dawn Christie is an artist and experimental filmmaker whose films have screened internationally at various festivals and cinematheques from Korea to San Fransisco, from Paris to Mexico, from Oberhausen to Toronto, and beyond. For the past ten years Amanda has been actively serving on various boards of artist run centres, teaching workshops, publishing articles, and serving on juries across Canada. She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, before moving to Amsterdam. She is currently based in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, where she works as the director of the Galerie Sans Nom, and also maintains an active studio practice in photography and creative electronics.
Jon Claytor‘s youth was spent traversing the country with his parents. His Father was and is a biologist and they spent the summers in the wilderness living in a tent while he counted living things in the rivers. Jon’s Mother taught him to make toys out of branches and sometimes they watched the bears at the dump. Eventually they settled in New Brunswick. Years later he became an artist and a co-founder of SappyFest. Currently he lives in Toronto with his partner and five children and their dog Olive. His figurative based paintings, super 8 films and photography all revolve around the delicate tightrope we walk as human beings and how action and desire often intersect and diverge when least expected and result in some very strange unions of contrasting emotions. Jon has exhibited from LA to Halifax and recently in Tel Aviv.
Marlene Creates is a visual artist and poet who lives in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. Her work has been shown in 300 exhibitions across Canada and internationally. Her principle artistic venture since 2002 has been to work closely with the six acres of boreal forest where she lives, which includes the Blast Hole Pond River, the subject of the video-poem, River of Rain. www.marlenecreates.ca
David Dahms is an artist who works across many disciplines, including printmaking, drawing,radio performance/art and sculptural installation. Dahms is the co-host of a bi weekly radio art program called the Potato Salad Radio Show. Besides making and teaching art, Dahms enjoys canoeing, camping and cooking with his wife. David Dahms lives and works in Halifax. psrs.tumblr.com
Linda Rae Dornan is an interdisciplinary artist creating performance, installation, video and audio art about language, the body, memory and loss. She has exhibited her work in North and South America, and Europe. Dornan is the New Brunswick 2010 Strathbutler Award recipient. www.lindaraedornan.ca
Robin Anne Ettles is a multi award-winning songwriter, a freelance bassist with an international touring background, record producer, and a composer of music for television and film. Most recently, she made her first foray into sound art. It will not be her last. www.dangerousparade.com
Kallie Garcia is a fine arts student, who runs the Little Armadillo print shop in Sackville.
Leah Garnett lives and works in Sackville, NB and her website is leahgarnett.com.
Paul Goguen is an audio editor/mixer working in post production for The Postman Post-Production studio. Also an electronic music artist going by the name Paranerd and has been making braindance since 1997. He has a number of album releases on various netlabels and has won a Silver Wave Film Festival award for “Excellence in Sound Design in an NB Short Film” for the short film “Magnifier” in 2010.
Jonah Haché is an event coordinator, artist, writer, musician, soundtrack composer and sound editor. For the past few years Jonah’s spent a portion of his time touring in bands such as Something Delicious, The Motorleague, developing the non-profit, volunteer based art and music cooperative TBA Collective and working in various audio-related jobs. Jonah works contractually as an audio editor, recording engineer, in live sound for music functions and location sound for film shoots.
Corey Isenor originally from Enfield, Nova Scotia, now lives in Sackville, New Brunswick. He recently graduated from Mount Allison University in 2010 with a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. His current studio practice has concentrated heavily on drawing, a bit of sculpture and multimedia work with a focus on exploring abstraction, the natural environment and the relationship between the two. see Corey’s work here
Eleanor King is a Halifax-based, interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited and participated in residency programs nationally and internationally, with upcoming projects at Nuit Blanche (TO) and Eastern Edge Gallery (NL). Eleanor’s site-specific installations are inspired by everyday life and are realized using provisional materials. She teaches media arts at NSCAD University, is Exhibitions Coordinator at Anna Leonowens Gallery, and is 1/2 of indie-band The Just Barelys. www.eleanorking.com
Ilse Kramer works primarily in the mediums of photography and video, but has long been an amateur radio programmer. She resides in Sackville, New Brunswick, where she has a day job as a mail clerk, and is inspired, supported, and encouraged by the local arts community. Currently borrowing other people’s computers, she dreams of one day working on her own. Kramer has successfully shown work on the internet as well as in Sackville, Halifax, and Charlottetown, and has high hopes to present work elsewhere in the world.
Valerie LeBlanc A pluridisciplinary artist and writer, Valerie LeBlanc has presented, and participated in residencies, and workshops – throughout Canada, the United States, France and Australia. Her art practice fluxes between media arts,
performance and installation. Many of her videopoems, emphasize the importance of non-spectacular time, the significance of the day-to-day, and the beauty present in available aesthetic. Currently, her video Walking on water is screening as part of the Studio Stefania Miscetti’s She Devil 5 at the MACRO in Rome, Italy.
Suzanne Léger: ”Raised in a musical and rural environment in Ste-Marie-de-Kent, New-Brunswick (Canada), Suzanne Léger explores music from around the world in order to achieve her artistic product. Having already charmed multiple European audiences in France and Switzerland, the 28-year-old songwriter is currently preparing her first album. She is also a member of the group The Wild Gypsies. ‘Trois places’ is her first attempt at making a non-musical sound piece.” www.myspace.com/suzanneleger
MAPD collects and disseminates artefacts of ‘disturbance’ within natural surroundings and man-made spaces. The goal is to chart, map, survey, record, and transcribe; to interject, invert, and engage local space and the public’s interaction with these sites. Throughout Ok. Quoi?! 2011, MAPD will interject a series of subtle as well as less discrete objects and acts, directly into the streets and spaces of Sackville; involving both public interactions and various ephemera.
For this particular project MAPD will work alongside Sackville-based Newfoundland artist Jerry Ropson.
http://marshdisturbance.tumblr.com/
Jenna Marks When I started at NSCAD three years ago I had no idea what I wanted to do. Since I am not only an art student but an athlete and activist, I wanted to find a way to combine them. After taking a semester off to compete with the Canadian canoe team, I realized that a life pursuing documentary and experimental film would suit me perfectly. I could express myself and my beliefs, be active and on the go, and most importantly, give a voice to those who aren’t always heard. “Picture You” is one of my first films and I hope you find it memorable and unique!
Hazel Meyer is an artist and aspiring athlete who lives in Toronto. www.hazelmeyer.com
Graeme Patterson: Originating from Saskatoon, now living in Sacville, NB Graeme Patterson’s practice stems from a self developed approach to creating stop-motion animation. This “do it yourself” method is consistent in all facets of his production. Since graduating from NSCAD in 2002 his projects can be described as sculptural installations consisting of video, robotics, audio, music, and some interactive components. Generally he works in miniature using a 1:10 scale which originates from childhood. His installations attempt to bring the viewer in to the world of play Graeme exists in while creating his stop-motion animations. From 2004- 2007 he created a large body of work entitled “Woodrow”. This 10 piece installation encompasses all aspects of his practice. All of his work is based on personal memories and life experience with a mix of fantasy and surrealism. Currently Graeme is working towards another 3 year project to be shown in 2013 focusing on issues related to friendship, communication, and an understanding of his generation. www.graemepatterson.com
Liz Solo is a cross-disciplinary, cross-platform interventionist specializing in performance.
Laura Stewart is a 22-year-old artist from Charlottetown, PEI. She spent the last 4 years getting her Bachelor of Arts degree, but much prefers to spend her time building and animating little worlds. She will soon be studying film animation at Concordia.
www.mmfmfmf.blogspot.com
Henry Adam Svec grew up on a cherry farm near Blenheim, Ontario, and studied English at Mount Allison; now he makes performance art, writes songs and fiction, and works on a PhD at the University of Western Ontario. His work often blends a range of traditions, including song collecting, the academic lecture, the mass-mediated hoax, and alternative comedy. www.thecflsessions.ca
Angela Thibodeau is a video artist and bread baker living in Sackville, New Brunswick. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she received a BFA from Mount Allison University in 2002. Her work is greatly influenced by her Acadian hertiage and the support of Struts Gallery.
Tara K. Wells is an artist and designer living and working in Sackville, New Brunswick,
where she enjoys breaking down the broken-down and building with the bits. Most of the things she makes are animated in some way or another. She is married to the swellest of fellas, and they share their home with two lovely dogs and a whole heap of stuff. Tara has thankfully received a few grants from the New Brunswick Arts Board, and was surprisingly long-listed for the Sobey Art Prize in 2009.
D’Arcy Wilson is currently based out of Fredericton NB, where she has been teaching in the Fine Arts Department at St. Thomas University. She holds a BFA from Mount Allison University, and an MFA from The University of Calgary. Her performance practice considers the human as an isolated species of animal in search of a connection to or role within nature. In her multidisciplinary exploration of postcolonial relationships to wildlife, she presents themes of absence, loss, and vulnerability. Her works has been exhibited across Canada and in Japan.
Nic Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around integrating traditional two dimensional pieces, such as drawing and painting, into narrative installations. He is currently entering his final year in the BFA program at Mount Allison University.
Lianne Zannier lives and works in Montreal, QC. She graduated with a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Mount Allison University and is currently studying Film Animation at Concordia University. She likes animated drawings that transform one thing into another, revealing magical happenstance and the tricks we play with our eyes. She co-hosted Drawing on Air when it became a regular show on CHMA Radio from 2007 to 2008.
Elizabeth Zetlin is an award winning filmmaker and poet. She has created over 25 short video poems and a feature length documentary, Words Aloud, showcasing the ephemeral art of spoken word. Zetlin’s films have screened at festivals and art galleries in Ireland, the UK, the US and across Canada.
