As we work to repair our website menus, please use this handy guide to our exhibits opening Friday, Nov. 2nd! Frazee Gallery: Kathy Hooper City Gallery: Ian McEachern Canada Games Gallery: Kyla Chung Library Gallery: Karen Knight and Helen Stanley Rotunda Gallery: Francis Riley
Kyla Chung
The Study of Saint John Artist Statement Having grown up in South Korea with modern architecture, I find myself absolutely intrigued by the rich heritage buildings in Saint John. I have a great appreciation for the fine craftsmanship that went into rebuilding the city after the Great Fire of 1877. It is amazing how well preserved some of these buildings …
Francis Riley
Francis Riley: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints Francis was born in Sheffield, England in 1936. He loved painting and drawing from an early age, but first studied part time at the Sheffield College of Art. He soon became a full time student, and upon his graduation, won a place in the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in London. After he …
Karen Knight and Helen Stanley
Shop Talk Artists’ Statement Two artists meet over tea in handmade pottery mugs, of course, for a never-long-enough conversation about life with clay. For fifteen years these two friends have shared their passion for creating in the same medium while expressing that passion in contrasting ways. A second cup is filled to celebrate a brilliant success, a shoulder is offered …
Ian MacEachern
The Lost City “For the first time, a Beaverbrook Art Gallery touring exhibition opens in Saint John – and for good reason. Seventy-five black-and-white photographs drawn from the artist’s exceptional archive are presented, depicting 1960s life along Main Street in the city’s North End before ‘urban renewal.’ Poignant and sublime, these narrative photographs are among the finest visual documents of …
Kathy Hooper
What goes on in my head and lands up on paper Frazee Gallery, November 2 – December 21, 2018 Artist’s Statement I grew up on a small farm in South Africa. It was beautiful and because it was so far away from a town my sister and I could not be sent to school. We both read from a very …
Thank you, SHMF! (Art Centre Directors)
SJAC would like to thank the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation for their ongoing generous support – we are very excited to be coordinating this initiative with our colleagues at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre! Please see this statement by the SHMF on this important project: November 2018 Art Centre Directors Conference The Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation is committed to supporting …