THE POWER PLANT PRESENTS: Mary Anne Barkhouse, Dianne Bos, Sarah Fuller, and Penelope Stewart in conversation with Justine Kohleal

Early photographic processes have been the creative catalyst for four Canadian artists—Mary Anne Barkhouse, Dianne Bos, Sarah Fuller, and Penelope Stewart—during their annual get-togethers and self-directed residencies for several years. All four convene with The Power Plant’s Assistant Curator, Justine Kohleal, to discuss their individual and group work.

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Artist Interview: Leanne M Christie

In this artist interview, painter Leanne M. Christie discusses how she came to her career as an artist and how she finds inspiration in moving through the city.

Want to see Leanne's oil paintings in person? Our latest exhibition, "Wayfinding," is on view now until January 31st 2021, featuring works by artists Leanne M. Christie, Sara Graham and Devon Knowles

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Erika DeFreitas: an object, a gesture, a scene (II) Digital Artist Book

The digital artist book for An object, a gesture, a scene (II) has been composed to mimic the in-person experience of DeFreitas’ artworks in their viewing order. In addition to this digital publication, the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington has recently launched an exhibition catalogue featuring an essay on DeFreitas’ exhibition written by Curator Sandy Saad Smith.

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Artist Interview: Sara Graham

Sara Graham is a Port Moody based artist whose work is concerned with the issues and ideas of the contemporary city. In this artist interview, Graham talks about her multi-disciplinary practice and how her work responds to the transitional spaces that she observes in her community through the act of “slow walking”.

Her work is now on display as part of the exhibition Wayfinding at the Art Gallery at Evergreen in Coquitlam, B.C.

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ArtTalk with Art Historian Charmaine Nelson / Causerie sur l’art avec l’historienne de l’art Charmaine Nelson

On November 15, 2020, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, University of Prince Edward Island, welcomed guest lecturer Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson to give a talk entitled "Fugitive Slave Advertisements and/as Portraiture in late Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century Canada." This month's Field Trip presents this talk in full, including questions and answers from the assembled audience.

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THE POWER PLANT PRESENTS: Howie Tsui and Greg Girard in Conversation

Fall 2020 exhibiting artist Howie Tsui’s animation Retainers of Anarchy (2017) is set in the Kowloon Walled City (1898–1994)—a tenement once situated on the fringes of British-occupied Hong Kong that housed at least 33,000 people on its 2.6-hectare footprint, though unofficial estimates suggest closer to 50,000 inhabitants. Rarely patrolled by police, it was known by locals as “the city of darkness.” During this program, Tsui is joined by Greg Girard, renowned Canadian photographer, who spent considerable time in the Kowloon Walled City before it was demolished, documenting daily life. The program will end with questions from the audience.

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