Category: Exhibitions
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Salvaged Artifacts & Stories
August 22 – September 14 2014 Mahon Hall, 114 Rainbow Rd, Salt Spring Island Delving into historical documents is like exploring a culture so foreign that it seems incomprehensible. Assumptions made in the past are often completely contrary to what is believed today. Yet there is always something to latch on to, some thread…
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Whalebones, Blubber & Other Relics of First Oil; Show at the Duthie Gallery
April 4 – 29 2014 Duthie Gallery, Salt Spring Island In the early 17th century when European explorers first came across Bowhead whales around Svalbard they were so thick in the bays that the ships could hardly maneuver around them. Now the eastern pod of the Bowhead whale; also known as the Right Whale, because…
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Tossed Ashore in a Spring Tide; Collective Works Gallery 2009
Spring is a time of re-growth in the sea as much as on the land. Strong winds and storms of early spring uproot seaweed, tossing it ashore in high tide; shiny and jewel like for a brief moment only to become decomposing matter by the end of the day. Chalk pastel is essentially a rich…