The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation is honored to announce the members of the 2015 Strathbutler Jury. In service to the province of New Brunswick, the foundation is committed to an independent jury system in the adjudication of awards and scholarships. We wish to express our respect and gratitude to the following professionals who served on[…]
Tom Smith dies at 82. SHMF wishes to acknowledge the passing of Strathbutler artist, Tom Smith on May 17, 2015. He received the Strathbutler in 1992 for his mastery of ceramic art and in recognition of his important contributions as an educator and mentor. Our condolences to his family and his close friends.
My work is like a hunter. I go to a place and I try to have a strategy for doing a form or an image with the elements of the place … it’s ephemeral.
… Dan Steeves’s work suggests the fragility of life in the ceaseless flow of time… Steeped in the traditions of printmaking, his innovative work challenges our notions of stability and permanence …
I move between figuration and abstraction, between the decorative and the literal in texts, images and narratives of my digital prints on fabric and hand-stitched wall hangings …
My interest in cartography represents the human need to map place and record events, but so often this is an elusive task as one’s perception can easily shift, and change is always occurring. I hope these images will be regarded as a visual song …
Experimentation and the possibility of failure, ephemerality and temporality (especially in the performance art work) are important elements which have strengthened my practice.
I believe that CREATIVITY is a part of our nature, and manifests itself in all disciplines, the humanities as well as sciences, from the simplest to the most complex of things. Creativity is the engine of life. – atoms create molecules – molecules create matter – a seed creates a plant – living organisms create[…]