Exhibitions and Events
Spirit Matters: Works Selected From the Permanent Collection
Drawn from the rich resources of the Dalhousie Art Gallery's permanent collection, Spirit Matters foregrounds the issue of spiritual content in visual art. Including historical and contemporary works that range across continents and cultures -- Australian aboriginal burial poles, Renaissance woodcuts, Inuit sculpture, Chinese porcelain Buddhist figures, and drawings, prints and mixed media works by artists from Atlantic Canada -- this exhibition offers an opportunity to revisit the role of visual art in expressing and informing the life of the spirit.
Bedrock: Six Contemporary Artists from Iceland
In this introduction I am delighted to be able to identify a number of "firsts". Bedrock: Six Contemporary Artists from Iceland marks the first occasion that a group exhibition of works by prominent contemporary Icelandic artists will be shown in a public art gallery in Nova Scotia. While individual artists from Iceland, or with Icelandic connections, have occasionally exhibited their art here, such a gathering of recent works by major Icelandic artists (all currently living in Reykjavík) has rarely occurred anywhere in Canada, let alone in Halifax.
Ship Portraits in Nova Scotian Collections
In 1985, the Dalhousie Art Gallery invited Dr. Chalres Armour, then the University Archivist (now retired), to organize an exhibition of ship portraits. The exhibition, which included 24 fine examples of marine portraiture and was accompanied by an illustrated brochure, proved to be of great interest to the community, whether art-lovers or marine enthusiasts. It is with great pleasure, then, that we are once again able to work with Dr. Armour on a similar but much more comprehensive look at ship portraiture.
