Art critic Murray Littlejohn noted that Collins mocks the trend to reduce art to a decorative role in society, robbing it of its cognitive value. His landscapes and portraits prompt the viewer to challenge the importance of money and technology in modern life. – 2001
Essentially, I’m concerned about the body as subject matter. And primarily the absence of the body. Using the body blatantly just seemed a little too obvious. – Rick Burns, 2000
…but I find it difficult to choose words that will speak with the same intensity as a drawing, painting or construction … – Suzanne Hill, 1999
I say this for the sole reason that I want to make it clear that making art is a very difficult profession because it deals with what is not obvious, in what is hidden in one’s emotions, it deals with life itself and everyone knows that life is unpredictable, that it reveals its secrets bit by bit, that nothing is clear, ever. – Roméo Savoie, 1998
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Susan Vida Juda Susan Vida Judah is a celebrated tapestry artist currently working from her studio in Upper Kingsclear. A graduate of the Hereford School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London England, Ms. Judah emigrated to Canada in 1976. She has served as the Head of the Textile Department of the[…]
This awareness now forms the central core of my work. The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognise their particularity has become automatic; but seeing, combining and creating them as integrated “wholes”, will remain a life-long challenge. – Freeman Patterson, 1997
Each year, the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation provides one grant cycle to assist organizations in the promotion and development of visual arts within the province of New Brunswick. The Board of Directors invites concept letters outlining a proposal for funding of up to $10,000. Concept letters should not exceed two pages and should outline the[…]