Current Residencies
Renee Brazeau
September 1 – October 14, 2023
Renee Brazeau intends to work on a quilted mapping project exploring the relationship between place and the expression of one’s queerness. The exploration will begin by creating a series of large imaginary quilted maps. These maps could take the form of recognizable aerial maps and/or psychological maps. Brazeau will approach quilting in a painterly fashion by intuitively combining embroidery, screen-printing, sewing and applique techniques to create non-traditional quilts. This non-traditional approach to quilting rejects the idea of following a pattern, similarly to how queerness is about rejecting society’s pre-determined pattern.
Renee would like to acknowledge the grant she has received from Canada Council. This grant will play a pivotal role in supporting Renee’s residency at Eastern Edge.
Renée Brazeau (she/they) is a queer, femme, white-settler, artist and educator who is currently based out of Kjipuktuk (Halifax).
With a formal background in drawing and painting, Renée applies a painterly approach to their developing textile practice, in which they are mostly self-taught. Their work explores themes of place, mapping, queer identity, chronic illness, daily mundane moments, quotidian joy, establishment of self, and belonging. Renée’s work is made in an attempt to better understand and document where she is both physically and psychologically in a given moment.
They completed their Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and Bachelor of Education both from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Following their undergraduate studies, they pursued a Masters of Arts in Art Education from NSCAD University, where they developed a keen interest in socially engaged community art education. Renée currently balances her time between her art practice and teaching within community and post-secondary contexts.
Upcoming Residencies
AnnaMaria Pinaka
October 27 – December 9, 2023
AnnaMaria Pinaka was born and raised in Thessaloniki and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Her practice is on drawing, painting, video and performance; she holds a practice-led PhD, titled Porno-graphing: “dirtiness” and self-objectification in lens-based art, from Roehampton University (2017) and lectures in different art academies in the Netherlands.
During her time at Eastern Edge, AnnaMaria Pinaka will be researching punk and hard rock women-identified led scenes in Canada, while drawing, painting, singing and writing about mermaids, princesses and magical fairies. Her aim is to explore the (in)possibilities of a coexistence between the figure of a princess and that of a female punk/hard rock musician. By bringing together these apparently polarised, crystallised and universalised idea(l)s of womanhood, the “holy”, the “untouched” and the “wild” young woman, Pinaka aspires to form affirmative negations of normative iterations of femininity. Carnival fairy dresses, early gaming 90s aesthetics, pink-coloured Barbie-inspired figures, will carve out space for girly-ness and femmeness to interfere with politics of visibility.
Megan Samms
February 2 – March 16, 2024
Nadine Baldow
March 29 – May 11, 2024
m’lk
May 24 – July 6, 2024
m’lk collective, made up of three siblings, Motheo, Lele and Kutlwano. Are interested in material culture and how it becomes a port of inquiry into stories and relations which would otherwise be illegible to them and perhaps others. Born in South Africa to a Xhosa mother and Mopedi father and raised in spaces which would be considered white or heavily influenced by the western world means they have been faced with multiple material worlds, sometimes simultaneously, most of the time in very close proximity. This has allowed for there to be a gap between what they have been and seen themselves as and what world they exist in/as. This gap has always been filled with enquiry, uncertainty and exploration. This has developed into a practice of observing, archiving and investigating material culture. In South Africa the fascination is how culture manages to persist in circumstances where it is told not to, they would like to bring this practice to Eastern Edge and get to understand how certain cultures have laid dormant, gone through transit and found itself in St John’s, Newfoundland. From objects, to rituals to ways of communicating. In this archiving they would like to use their technical background of architecture, ceramics, film, landscape architecture, lighting design and photography to find ways of making legible what they feel is to be documented. This requires collective practice and building of relationships which they are deeply interested in.
Sylvan Hamburger
July 19 – August 31, 2024
Cranky signifies an erratic vessel, liable to capsize. This nautical meaning serves as a central metaphor for this proposal: I will relief print the hull of a discarded punt, alongside other sea jettison, and turn the printed impressions into textile kites to be flown along the coast. Cranky presupposes the strange and irregular flight of these soft vessels. It also alludes to the volatile consequences of globalization, consumerism, and climate change on coastal communities.
Joshua Schwebel
September 13 – October 26, 2024
Georgia Dawkin
November 8 – December 14, 2024
Past Residencies
2023
Megan & Clayton’s Artist Talk + Screening Event
Bark Tanning Workshop with Susan Furneaux
Wander + Wonder: A Practice of Observing and Dreaming – Workshop with Brenda Reid
Auditory Fun 101 – Workshop with Oz
Chroma Keying Textiles Workshop with Ale Monreal
Digital Storytelling Workshop with Jane Walker
Artist Talk with Michael Lucenkiw
Other Ways of Knowing: Sonification as Data – Workshop with Michael Lucenkiw
Nasim Makaremi Nia (Mainframe)
Artist Talk with Nasim Makaremi Nia
2022
Jillian McDonald
Artist Talk with Jillian McDonald
April White
Artist Talk & Workshop with April White: slowness and comfort in creativity
Glenn Gear, Paige Gratland & Daniel Barrow
Pedro Rebelo & Geraldine Timlin (Artlink Exchange)
Geraldine Timlin and Pedro Rebelo on their Artlink Exchange!
Artist Talk & Film Screening with Pedro Rebelo & Geraldine Timlin
Workshop with Xenia Lucie Laffely: Expression through Textiles
Art Link International Atlantic Residency Exchange, Cliodhna Timoney
International Artist Talks: Micheal Flaherty & Cliodhna Timoney
2021
Summer 2021 HOLD FAST AiR Drew Pardy and Elizabeth Cook, Lily Taylor, and Phlegm Fatales
Summer 2021 Traveling Residency, Emily Neufeld Holding Place: Christeen Francis, Emily Neufeld, Andrew Testa
2020
Summer 2020 Artist in Residence, Ashley Hemmings
Rug Hooking Tutorial with Ashley Hemmings
Makers Afternoon with Ashley Hemmings
Spring 2020 Artists in Residence, Drew Pardy & Faune Ybarra
Drew Pardy: Move Together Series
Faune Ybarra: Unusual Encounters, sharing circle
Drew Pardy: The Nipple of Stitches Workshop & Video Tutorial
AiR Faune & Drew: Makers’ Afternoon
Winter 2020 Artists in Residence, Amery Sandford & David Carriere, Melanie Colosimo, and Kate Lahey
Melanie Colosimo hosts satellite Art Bar + Projects
2019
Fall 2019 Artists in Residence, Tanea Hynes & Christeen Francis
Thank God It’s Friday: Studio Hangout & Artist Presentation
Tuesday Art Jam with Christeen Francis
Labrador City artist explores personal connection to mining through art practice
OPEN STUDIO: Visit our Artists in Residence, Friday, October 18th, 12-5pm
To Care on Visited Land – Middle Cove Beach, Saturday, October 12, 2019
Conundrums, Confessions, Contradictions, and Concerns: Working as Environmental Artists in 2019
Summer 2019 HOLD FAST artist, Craig Francis Power, Ethan Murphy, Teresa Connors
Eastern Edge Exhibition, Surface Tension (or What Holds an ‘Us’ Together): Joshua Vettivelu
Reading Close: Joshua Vettivelu and legibility in absence – Kailey Bryan
Arbitrary Lines: Refugee Law in Canada 1986 – 2012 – Gobhina Najarajah
CBC: Artists create 40-tonne sand sculpture at downtown St. John’s gallery