A good way to start 2025

 I've always wanted to be in a exhibition that is included as a must-see show..and it happened!

Happy New Year!

https://www.aci-iac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Newsletter-Winter-Exhibitions-2025_V5.pdf

Confederation Centre Art Gallery

If you happen to be in Charlottetown, PEI...I'm in a group show at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. Dec 14-April 13

Curator: Brandt Eisner

Artists: Andrew Quon, Miya Turnbull, Curtis Botham, Laura Kenney, Shauna MacLeod, Lux Gow-Habrich, Monique Silver

 

https://confederationcentre.com/exhibition/this-seems-personal/

 

 

Fog Forest Gallery 40 years

A few years back Janet Crawford, owner of Fog Forest Gallery in lovely Sackville NB got in touch with me and asked if I would like to be an artist with her gallery. Heck yah, I answered.

Happy to be a part of this group show...40 years in the art business is something to celebrate.

To preview this new exhibition, "40 Years In The Forest" click here. 

NS FOLK ART FESTIVAL

 The festival was a hoot as it always is.

Sold a bunch.

Had cool conversations.

A good time.

xoxox

Judy is back home.

 

The “Judy” show is back home.

Thanks so much to Greg Davies Laurie Dalton Andrea Terry Olinda Casimiro and the gallery assistants at CBU Art Gallery, Acadia University Art Gallery StFX Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Northumberland.

Big thanks to owners of rugs for letting me borrow for two years.

And what’s next?

MAKE MORE JUDYS!

Xoxox

 

 

NS Folk Art by Ray Cronin

 I am pleased as punch to be one of the artists in included in this book. Like any art form things evolve and it was so interesting to me to see the three waves of artists..I understand my place better now.

So many folk artists I admire are here: Maud Lewis, Barry Colpitts and William Roach to name a few.

Order it!

https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-folk-art.html

Judy’s origins-Talk at Art Gallery of Northumberland..thank you Jennifer Wiber for filming and editing.

Video of Chat at Art Gallery of Northumberland.

 

Jennifer Wiber of Northumberland Rug Hookers was super sweet and took a video of the talk I gave at Art Gallery of Northumberland with Olinda Casimiro a couple of weeks ago.

 

I chat about Judy..of course...and Maud and Folk Art and read from an excerpt of the Vernacular Art article in the latest edition of Border Crossings Magazine

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/gARGHIxVQYw?feature=shared

Art Gallery of Northumberland

 Nice write up by Olinda Casimiro, Executive Director of AGN.

https://www.artgalleryofnorthumberland.ca/exhibition/laura-kenney-judy/

 

“Subversive Judy” emerges as more than just a character in Laura Kenney’s artistic repertoire; she embodies a rebellion against societal norms and expectations. For over five years, Kenney has woven the tale of Judy, a figure both fantastical and deeply relatable, into her art. Judy is not merely a whimsical creation; she serves as a conduit for Kenney’s voice and a mirror reflecting the desires and frustrations of individuals navigating the constraints of social order.

Dressed in black with vibrant red boots, Judy epitomizes freedom, eschewing traditional domestic duties for moments of carefree abandon. Kenney’s personal connection to Judy is palpable, rooted in memories of her mother’s disdain for ironing, a chore dreaded by many. Through Judy, Kenney explores themes of domesticity, gender roles, labour, and liberation, challenging conventional narratives surrounding female identity.

Kenney’s choice of medium, fiber art, adds layers of significance to her exploration. By utilizing materials traditionally associated with women’s domestic labour, such as cloth, wool, and thread, Kenney pays homage to those who have historically been relegated to the margins of art history. In doing so, she aligns herself with a lineage of artists who have transformed fiber art from a dismissed craft into a powerful tool of resistance.

Through Judy, Kenney breathes life into this subversive spirit, reclaiming the art of fiber work as a means of empowerment and expression in the contemporary landscape.

Olinda Casimiro
Executive Director

 

Art Gallery of Northumberland

 The opening was packed!

Big thanks to the Northumberland Rug Hookers. They have a lovely blog and can see more images of the show here.

 https://northumberlandrughookers.blogspot.com/

The show is up till April 27th, please drop by if you can.

 

Art Gallery of Northumberland

 The Judy show is making its final stop at the Art Gallery of Northumberland in Cobourg ON.

Opening Mar 2 

Show on till end of April.

Excited to meet the lovely Northumberland Rug Hookers.

https://northumberlandrughookers.blogspot.com/2024/02/save-date-laura-kenney-at-agn.html?spref=fb

 

 

Centre for Craft Cape Breton

 

Happy to be a part of this show with Deb Kuzyk Shauna MacLeod Brandt Eisner to name a few.

#craftivism

 

 

Border Crossings Magazine

 Thankful to have “Maud Lewis, Always Happy” included in Matthew Ryan Smith’s article Vernacular Art, The Everyday Monumental in Border Crossings Magazine.