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Learn about the latest exhibit at the Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Crafts___Ship, in an article for Billie by Elissa Barnard.
By: Elissa Barnard, Billie: Visual ∙ Culture ∙ Atlantic
In Crafts___Ship: Carley Mullally, Gillian Maradyn-Jowsey and Inbal Newman, three Nova Scotia artists distort the notion of craft as a female domestic art in a cheerful, cozy show steeped in the Maritimes’ history of rural life and seafaring at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery.
To walk into the gallery is to enter a playful, storybook home of multi-coloured, ceramic candlesticks, a cozy heart towel and a dory with yellow, blue and orange pompoms and tassels. While bringing humour and whimsy to their work, this trio is rigorously contemporary in examining gender, women’s history, Nova Scotia craft history and the value and nature of craft itself.
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