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532-7069
Opening on Sunday 28th October between 2 and 4pm. Artist talk 2:30pm. Free admission, refreshments will be served.
ARTsPLACE presents Cecil Day: Traps by Port Maitland, Nova Scotia artist Cecil Day.
In Traps (2008-2010), Cecil Day returns to a familiar theme: the natural world and our interaction with it. She explores our precarious relationship with nature through the subject of trapping in this suite of etchings that illustrate, to scale, traditional traps – conibears, box traps, snares, leg irons – alongside their related quarry.
Working in close dialogue with avid trappers, the artist researched each item – how they work, their construction, their history – and the corresponding animal – lobster, eel, weasel, mink, bobcat, bear, rabbit. Day’s interest here lies not in trapping itself, whether in condoning or condemning it, rather she looks to this activity by means of its tools as a vehicle by which to examine the evolving face of our connection to and understanding of nature. The traps serve as a symbol of this relationship.
In finding beauty in these objects and working with them, Day respectfully documents a fading lifestyle, one that is reliant upon a true awareness of the land and knowledge of the patterns and habits of the creatures that reside within it for survival.
Cecil Day: Traps is organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Cecil Day grew up in Portland, Maine. She received a BA in painting at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1960) and an MFA in painting from Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1973). Day moved to St. John’s, NF in 1979 and began printmaking at St. Michael’s Printshop. Notable exhibitions include: Tidelines, At the Sign of the Whale Gallery, Yarmouth, NS (2007), Journey in the North Atlantic, Craft Council Gallery, St. John’s, NL (2005), and Dark Forest, which travelled to Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, and University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB (1994-1996). She has served as artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France through Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1995) and two others awarded to her by the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador: Gros Morne National Park, Woody Point, NL (1999) and Rockwell Kent House, Brigus, NL (2006). Day’s work is held in a range of private and public collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Memorial University, Acadia University, Canada Council Art Bank, National Library of Canada, and Harvard University.
532-7069
Opening on Sunday 28th October between 2 and 4pm. Artist talk 2:30pm. Free admission, refreshments will be served.
ARTsPLACE presents Cecil Day: Traps by Port Maitland, Nova Scotia artist Cecil Day.
In Traps (2008-2010), Cecil Day returns to a familiar theme: the natural world and our interaction with it. She explores our precarious relationship with nature through the subject of trapping in this suite of etchings that illustrate, to scale, traditional traps – conibears, box traps, snares, leg irons – alongside their related quarry.
Working in close dialogue with avid trappers, the artist researched each item – how they work, their construction, their history – and the corresponding animal – lobster, eel, weasel, mink, bobcat, bear, rabbit. Day’s interest here lies not in trapping itself, whether in condoning or condemning it, rather she looks to this activity by means of its tools as a vehicle by which to examine the evolving face of our connection to and understanding of nature. The traps serve as a symbol of this relationship.
In finding beauty in these objects and working with them, Day respectfully documents a fading lifestyle, one that is reliant upon a true awareness of the land and knowledge of the patterns and habits of the creatures that reside within it for survival.
Cecil Day: Traps is organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Cecil Day grew up in Portland, Maine. She received a BA in painting at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1960) and an MFA in painting from Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1973). Day moved to St. John’s, NF in 1979 and began printmaking at St. Michael’s Printshop. Notable exhibitions include: Tidelines, At the Sign of the Whale Gallery, Yarmouth, NS (2007), Journey in the North Atlantic, Craft Council Gallery, St. John’s, NL (2005), and Dark Forest, which travelled to Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, and University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB (1994-1996). She has served as artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France through Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1995) and two others awarded to her by the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador: Gros Morne National Park, Woody Point, NL (1999) and Rockwell Kent House, Brigus, NL (2006). Day’s work is held in a range of private and public collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Memorial University, Acadia University, Canada Council Art Bank, National Library of Canada, and Harvard University.
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