Luanne Dominix: With Quiet Hands
We are so excited to present our next rOGUE Gallery exhibition, With Quiet Hands by Luanne Dominix! This will be the rOGUE’s last exhibition of 2025, running from November 7th – December 13th. We hope you will join us for an opening reception on Friday, November 7th, from 6-8pm. As usual, we will have snacks, refreshments, and a grand time! Click here to RSVP to the Facebook event.
Content Warning: This exhibitions deals with themes of butchery and the preparation of animal meats. Some paintings and drawings contain depictions of blood and gore.
With Quiet Hands is a series of watercolour paintings that explore the delicate balance between tradition and modernity. Through a reverent celebration of butchery as both craft and ritual, the work reflects on our evolving relationships with food, identity, and sustainability.
The series is drawn directly from Dominix’s first-hand experience on a local farm, where she learned how to process animals. By participating in the labour of butchery, she translates physical skill into a visual language. Gestures of cutting and preparing become meditations on attention, precision, and respect. In this reframing, butchery emerges not only as a means of survival but as a ritual act. It is an offering, a practice of gratitude, and an intimate exchange between human and animal.
These paintings invite viewers to pause and consider their own relationship to food sources at a time when most people encounter meat only as a packaged commodity, stripped of origin and context. They ask: what does it mean to eat something you have never seen whole, never witnessed in life, and never understood in its transformation?
By dwelling in this space between reverence and discomfort, With Quiet Hands proposes that acts of preparation and consumption can be reminders of care, transformation, and interconnectedness. The work asks the viewer to find beauty, ritual, and meaning in what might otherwise be hidden or forgotten.
With special thanks to Windy Heights Farms.
Luanne Dominix is a visual artist and educator based in Conception Bay North, NL. Her practice explores the intersection of material culture, natural resources, and identity. Through her watercolour paintings she strives to capture the essence of this connection and explore how it shapes our sense of self and place. Her work features symbols and imagery that ask the viewer to explore the inherent beauty and complexity of her province while reflecting on the changing dynamics faced by contemporary Newfoundlanders.
Dominix’s work has been exhibited in juried exhibitions across Canada and the United States including with the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour; the Society of Watercolour Artists; the Federation of Canadian Artists. Additionally, her work is a part of The Rooms Provincial Art Bank as well as the City of St. John’s and Eastern Health – MHAC, permanent collections. In 2021 she won Riddle Fence’s Visual Art Contest. Luanne holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies (Architecture) from Dalhousie University, a Master of Business Administration from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Photo Documentation
Photo Credit: Laura Sbrizzi
