“Making Home Here” Art Exhibit
“Making Home Here,” an exhibition in partnership between the ANC and The Rooms, recently closed at the Grenfell Art Gallery at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University in Corner Brook, NL.
This exhibition, curated by ANC staff member Rachel Gilbert with the support of The Rooms’ in-house curator, Mireille Eagan, explores the newcomer and migrant experience and how they have come to call Newfoundland and Labrador home. We invite you to check out the artwork from the show!
Shazia Ahmad’s work, titled “Abundance (Come and Sit),” speaks to the centrality of reminiscence and the passage of time as an accumulation of history.
Brian Amadi’s work, “Failed Fistbump,” highlights social organization and reveals the different superstructures of our society’s current system.
Ethel Brown’s photographs are predominantly documentary and storytelling in nature. They explore themes of belonging, home, motherhood, and everyday life. Her prints are titled “together | apart.”
Ksenia Korniewska takes unconventional approaches to the ancient painting medium of encaustic and egg tempera, and she creates alien icons that explore themes of alienation, dislocation, liminality, and disconnect. Her delicate painting is titled “Rootless.”
Ginok Song visualizes identity and difference through painting, murals, and printmaking, with an interest in realism and womanhood. The artwork featured in this exhibition is “Hope Holding” and is on loan from Christina Parker Gallery.
Anita Singh’s work is titled “Seed of Life” and “Lotus.” Her art consists of symbolic designs of iconic plants and animals in Newfoundland, Labrador, the Caribbean, and Russia. She works with mandala-style patterns to explore multicultural connections.
Thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition and to our partners and sponsor, Canadian Heritage!
