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Vie Maritime, La Vitrine, Montréal. March – April 2024 

Vie Maritime presents an amalgam of items collected over two decades in Newfoundland. The bones and artifacts found in fishing communities on the Bonavista Peninsula persist on the beach like relics from a lost age.  Weathered and bleached by sea and sun, the natural and the manufactured objects lose their distinctive characteristics. In a reverse osmosis, the ‘aquatically adapted artifacts’ morph into specimens, and the bones risk becoming artifacts.

High and Low, Catherine Beaudette and David Clarkson, Hermes Gallery, Halifax. Sept 7 – Oct 6, 2024

This 2-person exhibition featured paintings, drawings, collage, and sculptural objects related to the ocean, climate change, and the language of painting. While Beaudette haptically generates underwater photos at arm's length in the shallows and tide pools, Clarkson scrolls the net for obsolete illustrations to capture his attention. Searching high and low, the placid surface of these technologically mediated paintings holds the mystery of the depths below.

Sealander,  Tabitha+Co, Pictou NS. Sept 6 – Oct 6, 2024

 

Using an underwater camera from the vantage point of her kayak, Beaudette records the sea’s ecological networks as the basis of her large-scale watercolour paintings. The sites she visits are ordinary beaches and marshy shorelines; familiar locations that are also extraordinary ocean environments teaming with sea life.   

Painted on heavyweight large-scale Arches paper 5 feet in height, the exhibition was dedicated to her friend and mentor, artist Susan Wood (1953-2018). Susan purchased the paper for the numerous large-scale works she made over her long career.

Haida Gwaii, Peter Sloan Studio Residency, Masset. November 2024 

Haida Gwaii is the ancestral territory of the Haida Nation. An archipelago 100 kms off British Columbia’s West Coast, the over 200 isolated islands host unique plant and animal life, spectacular large tide beaches, giant Sitka spruce and cedar trees, moss-covered rainforest, ancestral village sites and centuries old Haida totem poles. Habitation dates back 6,000 to 8,000 years, yet only in 2024 was the title transferred to the Haida people, recognizing the nation's aboriginal land title throughout Haida Gwaii. Today in the towns of Old Masset and Masset where I stayed, Haida culture is vibrant with elders and young families, hippies and artists, carvers and makers, fishers and hunters living together in harmony, maintaining a delicate balance.

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