Exhibitions
Titanic! All Year Student Juried Exhibition
On Saturday, March 10, 7 to 9 p.m., there will be an opening reception for Titanic! All Year Student Juried Exhibition at Grenfell Campus Art Gallery. There will be a spoken word performance, Unsinkable Ship, by Rachel Elliot at 7:20. p.m.The exhibition features 17 works by 13 artists in a broad variety of media and forms including painting, sculpture, installation, video, sound and an original music score by Conor Curtis.
The works responded to the following brief:
On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. It sank on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg some 400 miles southeast of the Grand Banks. 1,517 people died making this one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history. This April marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The story of the construction, sailing, sinking and subsequent discovery of the ship, Titanic, provides a number of jumping off points as inspiration for artwork including:
Class and living/ working conditions (for example, 97% of women sailing in first class were saved; 46% in third class. Shipbuilders at Harland and Wolff lived in very meager circumstances)
Maritime Imagery
Engineering & Design
Landscape
Communications
Hubris
Personal Stories (e.g., The Unsinkable Molly Brown)
ColourThe exhibition is being held in conjunction with The Titanic Symposium: A Centenary Remembrance, hosted at Grenfell Campus by Grenfell’s Historical Studies program and Corner Brook Regional High and taking place March 15 to 17.
((Image: Maria Mercer, 1:1.52 (detail), 2012, clay, installation, 18" x 48" x 5"
For further information, please contact:
Charlotte Jones
cjones@grenfell.mun.ca
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Indiscretions: Narrative Painting Now explores that question by showing the work of six Ontario-based artists who all look at how time can be successfully represented in their paintings. In viewing these large-scale narrative paintings, viewers can relate to a specific story or they can create their own story based on the imagery they see. Each painting has visual cues implying that an event has unfolded or is just about to unfold. A strong sense of emotion is rendered to captivate the viewer and move them to contemplate the scene or character depicted. Exhibiting artists are: John Abrams, Gillian Iles, Phil Irish, Scott Sawtell, Paul Robert Turner and Natalie Waldburger.
Scott Sawtell makes the point that with the advent of time-based media, the notion of narrative art has changed and evolved. He says: one feature in all of these artists’ work is the central role played by the paint itself. In no way can these images be reduced to language: the physical experience of looking and making determine the meaning of the work. The abstract processes of painting carry meaning, altering how we relate to whatever representation it offered.
Gillian Iles, That's not how we do things here 05 Phil Irish, The Pier, 2009, oil and digital print on panel
2011, oil, acylic, pastel on canvas
John Abrams, Little Soldier - Planes, 2007 Scott Sawtell, New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Complete History
oil on panel of Civilization (abbr.), 2010, oil on canvas
Natalie Waldburger, The Only One Here, 2009 Paul Robert Turner, The World is a Darker Place Now, 2011
encaustic on panel, 48 x 48" oil, acylic, graphite on panel
For more information please contact the gallery
Grenfell Campus Art Gallery is located off the second-floor atrium of the Fine Arts Building. Short-term parking is available in front of the Fine Arts Building. The gallery is wheelchair accessible. Admission is free.
Gallery Hours: Tue - Fri, 11 am - 5 pm
Sat, 12 pm - 4 pm
For more information or to book a tour, please contact:
Charlotte Jones, Acting Director
Tel: (709) 637 6209 or (709) 637 6200 ext. 6379
