Eastern Edge’s Main Gallery is our primary exhibition space, featuring contemporary work from provincial, national, and international artists. Our Main Gallery programming seeks to facilitate critical dialogue concerning issues in contemporary art and society, actively encouraging emerging and established artists whose work speaks to feminist, multicultural, queer, and other diverse perspectives.
The space is programmed through an annual call for submissions, with the exception of two exhibition slots; each year, we present an Annual Members’ Exhibition in the Summer, and an exhibition in partnership with First Light NL for Spirit Song Festival in the Fall.
Current Exhibition
The Stories on Our Walls: Selections from First Light’s Living Archive
November 7 – December 13, 2025
Eastern Edge is pleased to partner with First Light to present a group exhibition in celebration of Spirit Song Festival 2025. The Stories on Our Walls is a community-rooted exhibition that brings together works by Indigenous artists exploring themes of home, memory, identity, and place.
“The art in this exhibition has been part of our journey for decades. Some were made in workshops or artist residencies, some came as gifts or commissions, and others simply found their way here. Together, they form a living archive of how art has always been at the heart of First Light. These works don’t just decorate our walls — they have stood beside us in ceremonies, brightened classrooms, and held space through moments of joy, grief, and growth. Seen together now, they tell the story of community life unfolding over more than 40 years. They remind us that home is made not only by people and place, but also by the art that witnesses, remembers, and carries our stories forward.”
Upcoming Exhibitions
Lucas Morneau, Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL)
February 6 – March 21, 2026
Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) is a fictional hockey league made up of 14 teams, all with team names that include pejoratives used against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The artist’s reclamation of these terms not only critiques existing hegemonic masculinity in sports culture, it also aims to create a new, positive, and accepting masculinity for sports enthusiasts.
Miya Turnbull
April 10 – May 23, 2026
In Traces, Miya Turnbull delves into self-representation through masks, sculpture, photography and video to explore identity as something layered, fragmented and continually transforming. At the heart of the exhibition is her ongoing collection of various hand-crafted self-portrait masks, realistic yet uncanny forms cast from her own face and reimagined through collage and distortion. Extending this language of masking to the full body, traced outlines and empty “skin-suits” on the gallery walls act as proxies, suggesting forms that were once inhabited but are now hollow, suspended or pinned in place. These self-portraits, along with life-sized photographs and video performances, function as fragments or echoes, tangible traces of identity in flux, caught between presence and absence. Together, these elements form an environment where body, image and memory overlap: an archaeology of the self in transformation. Traces invites viewers to reflect on how identity endures through what is left behind.
Jongwook Park
June 12 – July 25, 2026
Through still, flat, and dimensional images and forms, I use visual symbolism and intuitively generated drawing compositions. The use of multiple mediums and structures suggests a translation and slippage between expression and meaning. I attempt to visualize my emotional and psychological negotiation of expressing myself between my mother tongue and newly adopted languages.
Eastern Edge Annual Members’ Exhibition
August 14 – September 26
EE’s Annual Members’ Exhibition is open to our membership and will feature over 40 talented artists across the province.
Past Exhibitions
2025
Both/And: a photo journey – The Journey Project
Everybody Eats: Annual Members’ Exhibition
Snack Witch Joni Cheung: fill full feel full
Stéphane Alexis: Chains & Crowns
Rachelle Wunderink: Your Comfort, My Silence
2024
Spirit Song Festival: AtaKatigejut (Intertwined)
Z’otz* Collective: Bartering Futures
LOOT BAG: Annual Members’ Exhibition
Daze Jefferies + B. G-Osborne: Transient Maternal
Par Nair: the stories we don’t tell
2023
Megan Samms & Kristin Pope: this is how we can visit
Boil-up: Annual Members’ Exhibition
Jason Urban & Leslie Mutchler: Speculative Geologies
2022
Daniel Barrow, Paige Gratland & Glenn Gear: Three Way Mirror
Potluck: Annual Members’ Exhibition
Late for Life Chapter II – Previously Loved: Xenia Lucie Laffely
2021
Under New Management: Video Rental Store: Su-Ying Lee & Suzanne Carte
100 Mini Houses: A Downtown Exploration: Molly Margaret