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Chromophilia
16 Mar 2013 – 21 May 2013
“Chromophilia” is a neologism meaning “love of colour.” The aesthetic priority given to colour is the quality shared by the recent acquisitions in this exhibition.

New Work by Steve Higgins
20 Apr 2013 – 28 Jul 2013
By transposing his charcoal drawings into a wooden structure, Steve Higgins will create a temporary sculpture on an ambitious scale rarely seen in Halifax.

Forthcoming

Halifax Harbour in War Time by Arthur Lismer
23 May 2013 – 11 Aug 2013
The exhibition contains five paintings and four lithographs completed during Lismer’s tenure as Principal of the Victoria School of Art and Design (now Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) in the period 1916-1919.

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Frances Dorsey Saigon 13 Oct 2007 – 25 Nov 2007 An associate professor at NSCAD University, Dorsey works in cloth as a way of engaging critically with painting and of bringing global themes within the scope of family life and domestic practices. Much of her work includes photo-derived images of war. In this context, her use of distressed, pieced-together, salvaged cloth–a pictorial version of the patchwork quilt–offers a pointed critique of the tradition of “history painting” in which large paintings on canvas glorify war.
Roots & Shoots 15 Jul 2006 – 1 Oct 2006 This exhibition draws out tendencies that circulate among the artists of HRM and its environs, suggesting patterns of artistic affiliation as well as rifts.
Moral Fibre 29 Jun 2005 – 16 Nov 2005 Colette Whiten, Svava Juliusson, Nancy Edell, Frances Dorsey and Barbara Todd are linked by their use of textile-based media to express dissenting views.
Frances Dorsey: Rice Paddies / Vîet Nam 4 Aug 2004 – 8 Aug 2004 Rice Paddies / Vîet Nam is a textile work-in-progress by Frances Dorsey. It is being exhibited at MSVU Art Gallery as part of the "impromptu" series.
e-textiles 13 Jan 2001 – 25 Feb 2001 This exhibition includes works as large as 14 feet square that have been jacquard-woven at the specially equipped Centre des textiles contemporains.
Confrontations Unquiet Images from the University Collection 5 Jun 1999 – 18 Jul 1999 The exhibition in the mezzanine gallery includes two further works: Margaret Clarke's "Mother Ireland" portrait Mary and Brigid (1917), and Bruce Johnson's mural-sized photo-mosaic Oka (1992).
Image Rites 5 Apr 1997 – 11 May 1997 This exhibition was composed of works by artists whose ritualized production processes and presentation strategies intensify the terms of viewer engagement.