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2013 Artist-run centre schedule

“Anti-Depression Chamber” (Mushaboom Design) 
Julie Adamson Miller & Barry Roode
May 12th – June 16th 2013

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Opening on Sunday May 12th between 2 and 4pm, free admission, refreshments will be served. Music from Brian Wambolt.

ARTsPLACE Artist-run Centre is pleased to present “Anti-Depression Chamber” an exhibition by Julie Adamson Miller and Barry Roode. An opening will be held on Sunday, May 12th 2-4pm, all are welcome.

Major depression is the No.1 psychological disorder in the western world. It is growing in all age groups, in virtually every community, and the growth is seen most in the young, especially teens. At the rate of increase, it will be the 2nd most disabling condition in the world by 2020, behind heart disease.  (Public Health Agency of Canada)

If one does not suffer from the condition, but is closely connected to others who do, there may be feelings of helplessness with respect to their recovery process.  Adamson’s art practice investigates shelter, it is the forum from which she investigates and discusses issues of societal importance, the installation Anti-depression Chamber is the vehicle used to explore some of the issues surrounding depression.

Adamson’s approach to creating the shelter is a positive one viewing the issue from a healing perspective and as a mood altering space where one has the opportunity for visual, auditory and physical pleasure.  The installation also acts as a forum for the exchange of information and experiences about depression whereby the viewer is asked to respond to the question, “What is your antidote to depression?” and to record their answer on sticky notes which become a part of the exhibition.

Shelter is defined as protection, asylum or sanctuary; humans build physical, as well as emotional shelters for protection. Adamson's art practice investigates the relationship between the two through the creation of architectural environments.  The constructs speak not only of the individual connection between the body and shelter, but also the correlation between shelter and the human condition.

Anti-depression Chamber borrows its shape from the natural environment mimicking the curl of a wave, or the curve of a shell; the footprint echoes the shape of a drop of water, elemental to all life. The shelter is constructed from a lightweight and translucent dye printed fabric that glows when infused with light. Artist and textile designer Barry Roode of Mushaboom Design has created the artwork on the walls of the shelter.  Roode draws his inspiration from nature; the patterns are abstracted from the landscape and evoke the energy and colour found in the natural and wild environment of the eastern shore of Nova Scotia.

Julie Adamson Miller is a sculptor and installation artist living on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia.  Her studies include a Fine Arts Degree, three years of Architecture and a diploma in Fashion Design. Select solo exhibitions include the Latcham Gallery and Maclaren Art Centre in Ontario and the Craig Gallery and ArtsPlace in Nova Scotia and  has received several awards and grants for her work.  Julie is an active community artist with a growing list of projects that can be viewed at jamcommunityart.com.

http://jamcommunityart.com/
http://www.mushaboomdesign.com/

 The Annapolis Region Community Arts Council gratefully acknowledges the support of the Province of Nova Scotia, through The Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, our membership and community.

Sarah Maloney Artist Residency
 11-14th May and 18-21st May

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ARTsPLACE Artist-run Centre is pleased to announce that artist Sarah will be at ARTsPLACE Gallery for a 2 weekend residency in May, during the Magnolia season. Sarah will be in Annapolis Royal 11-14th May and 18-21st May. She will be creating studies towards a body of work which will be exhibited at ARTsPLACE in 2014.

During her two weekend residence Sarah Maloney will be working on creating waxes modeled from magnolia flowers that will be used to cast components for a suite of new bronze sculptures. Maloney uses bronze for this work because of its long history as a sculptural material and its use in monuments for many centuries. She is interested in the contrast of the permanence of bronze and its metallic nature with the temporality and fragility of flora. Her research engages in the forms of the plants and flowers, their evolutionary histories, how they were used and how they continue to be used. She is also interested in plant habitat and the relationship between what is natural and what is altered or constructed, venturing into landscape sculpture, where the works themselves render landscape (a human construct) from elements drawn from the natural world.

Sarah Maloney is a Halifax artist who completed an MFA at the University of Windsor and a BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has received numerous grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Heritage and Culture, The New Brunswick Arts Board and the Ontario Arts Council. Her work is held in the collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Canada council Art Bank and the New Brunswick Art Bank. She has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Including Fray at the Textile Museum Toronto; Corpus, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery; and Atlantic Crossing, Dresden Germany. She has been artist-in-residence at the Memory Disability Clinic, Camp Hill Hospital, Halifax and at Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. She currently teaches in the foundation and sculpture programs at NSCAD University.

www.smaloneycom 

http://www.studio21.ca/sarah-maloney.html

The Annapolis Region Community Arts Council gratefully acknowledges the support of the Province of Nova Scotia, through The Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, our membership and community.

Steve de Bruyn
21st June - 28th July
opening 21st June

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"Wood for Rolling" Installation view, Open Space Gallery 2011, BC

"Black & Blue" 
Wayne Boucher RCA & Don Pentz RCA
4th August - 8th September
opening 4th August

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