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• Newfoundland leaves its mark at Atlantic Ink
  One Newfoundland writer came close to a prize, while a book with a Newfoundland setting did come first at the 2009 Atlantic Ink Festival. ...
• 'Part of the rocks'
  Diana Dabinett's latest solo exhibit, "Shorelines," includes 20 oil paintings, on linen or canvas, all of rocky coastlines from around ...
• Planning for Passover
  Passover, which begins April 8, is one of the three most important holidays in the Jewish year. Through blessings, psalms, food and customs, ...
• Moving Pictures
  A multimedia, multinational exhibition opens at Eastern Edge in St. John's March 7. Four artists have united under the intriguing title "Slippery ...
• Small World
  In the new release of Robert Frank's "The Americans," his seminal collection of on-the-road photography, there is a discussion of whether the ...
• More ones to watch
  It was a year in art too big for one look. Here are five more highlights for 2008. No. 6. Someone to watch John McDonald - because his ...
• Ones to watch
  As we take 2008 down from the wall, here's a look at some of the happenings and people that made it a banner year for the visual arts. No. 1: ...
• One gallery, two differing visions
  Painting is a play of light over form, an engagement of colour and surface. Two painters currently exhibiting at Christina Parker Gallery, Grant ...
• Om body
  In 1996, artist David Blackwood produced an etching called "Cyril's Kite Over Blackwood's Hill." It shows one of his characteristic Newfoundland ...
• 'Portraits' not just faces
  Daniel Hughes' "Portraits" is an exhibition of oil on canvas paintings, some big, some small, composed with many classic elements. The subject is ...
• Craft council works feature poised functionality and...
  Inlay is an embellishing process that slides one coloured media, which can be anything from pearls to Popsicle sticks, into a base of differing ...
• Wave length
  "Infrared: an urban landscape" is a new exhibition of paintings (acrylic on canvas) by Ilse Hughes. Most of them big, and some are very big. The ...
• Small works, new works
  St. John's - The three visual artists in "New Works" have pieces that both interact with and ricochet off each other. This exhibition includes ...
• The Bigger Picture
  "Ned Pratt, New Work" is an exhibition of landscape photos - but they are not entirely, or solely, about land. The landscape is a main feature, ...
• Come 'ere ... till I tells ya
  "Come All Ye ..." is a musical salutation common in Newfoundland and Labrador folk songs. It is a good title for this three-hander show, as ...
• Works & in wax stone
  Encaustic painting is a very old art process, but like egg tempera, it is not widely practised. The technique, which involves heating wax and ...
• It takes all kinds
  A group exhibition is, by nature, an exercise in diversity. This summer show is no exception, with 18 featured artists including between one and ...
• Strength in numbers
  St. John's newest gallery space opens Friday with a massive group show. ACI Gallery, the latest evolution of Resource Centre for the Arts Visual ...
• Craft Council members spreading their wings
  The Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador is a meeting place for all manner of techniques and practices, so it is no surprise the annual ...
• It began with a hike...
  Like all good love stories, painter Angela Baker's love affair with the South Coast has a good opening line: "It began with a group hiking trip ...
• All original work exhibited at new Five Island Art...
  The new branch of the Five Island Art Gallery occupies 750 square feet at street level, most of it taken up in one big room with buffed hardwood ...
• Gill floats a new idea
  Visual artist Will Gill thinks outside the canvas. He seems inspired by a whimsical landscape of simple, even goofy shapes and a bright, ...
• Encounters with new talent
  Nine artists have work in the Leyton Gallery's latest exhibition, "Artistic Encounters," and as a group they are all fairly new to this gallery's ...
• About spring
  Spring can be an iffy, even cruel, term in Newfoundland and Labrador. Your average horticultural lover definitely suffers. Hardy, sweet little ...
• Night moves
  What is a city at night? Intimate, alluring, private, enclosed, open to all suggestion, maybe dangerous. It simply and deeply looks different ...
• A fresh look at Madness
  'A History of Madness' is a visual investigation of how mental illness has been treated, classified and stigmatized throughout history." Visual ...
• Chasing the french
  Musicians usually tap their own lives for inspiration. But songstress Colleen Power is delving for material in a less likely spot - the archives ...
• Former curators hold show before 'Moving On'
  Jennifer Barrett, Anne Downton and Carolyn Reddy are all former curators of the First Space Gallery in The Commons of the Queen Elizabeth II ...
• Art can also be in the eye of the beholder
  "The Forest," by Craig Francis Power, is a new installation work, featured at The Rooms until March 16. One small gallery on the second floor is ...
• Parker's painters centre stage Plus sculpture,...
  Nothing beats the crisp opulence of really good painting. Seventeen visual artists are included in the Christina Parker Gallery group exhibit, ...