Current Exhibition
AtaKatigejut (Intertwined)
November 8 – December 14, 2024
Eastern Edge is pleased to partner with First Light to present this group exhibition in celebration of Spirit Song Festival 2024. AtaKatigejut (Intertwined) celebrates the interconnections between land, people, and wildlife.
Spirit Song Festival is a celebration of Indigenous Arts and Culture that has been running annually in St. John’s since 2013. Spirit Song has now grown into a multi-day event which boasts world class performances, traditional and contemporary knowledge sharing events as well as artist in residence series.
The festival is enjoyed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous audiences alike. Spirit Song aims to support and promote Indigenous artists, strengthen our sense of community, as well as provide an opportunity for the greater public to experience the incredible work created by Indigenous artists from across Canada.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Rachelle Wunderink, Your Comfort, My Silence
January 31 – March 15, 2025
Society censors, rather than confronts, stories of rape and harassment. Rachelle Wunderink’s work unveils the consequences of sexual assault trauma by engaging viewers with the emotional affect. Incorporating influences from Affect Theory, Relational Aesthetics, and Trauma therapy, Wunderink’s site-specific exhibition for Eastern Edge Artist Run Centre, “Your Comfort, My Silence,” examines the ways that trauma lingers leaving lasting imprints on lives. She does this in three key ways throughout her body of work: ‘Blankouts,’ an immersive wheat-pasted installation, which looks at the covert ways in which society suppresses women’s stories of assault through the use of coded language and censorship. Secondly, ‘Trauma Embodied,’ looks at how the artist self-censors her own stories through a multi-layered editing process of nine different videos. Lastly, the artist activates the gallery space creating various modes of interaction with the work engaging her audience to consider the ways in which the work imprints on their own experiences.
Stephane Alexis, Chains & Crowns
March 28 – May 10, 2025
Chains & Crowns explores Afro hairstyles as both cultural heritage and socio-political expression, tracing their origins from Africa and the Caribbean through historical cycles of oppression and celebration. These styles have evolved as symbols of survival, adaptability, and creativity within Black communities, representing a resilient aesthetic deeply rooted in style, communal identity, and the triumphs of self-expression. The exhibit illuminates how Black hair has not only been a personal statement but also a collective narrative, shaping and influencing
character in Western culture while carrying a legacy of beauty, resilience, and joy.
This exhibition also addresses the commodification of Black hair, examining the objectification of Black individuals through their hair and the inequities in the beauty industry. Despite Black consumers driving a significant portion of beauty sales, Black-owned brands represent only a fraction of the revenue, highlighting systemic barriers to economic inclusion. These works are a call for reclaiming autonomy and promoting equity, urging a reexamination of how Black hair and its cultural significance are valued and respected in contemporary society.
Snack Witch (Joni Cheung)
May 23 – July 5, 2025
Eastern Edge Annual Members’ Exhibition
July 18 – August 30, 2025
EE’s Annual Members’ Exhibition is open to our membership and will feature over 40 talented artists across the province.
Spirit Song Exhibition
October 17 – November 29, 2025
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
Miya Turnbull’s upcoming exhibit will be delving into self-representation through a diverse array of mediums, presented as masks, sculptures, origami, photographs, and video. This self-portrait exploration aims to navigate themes of masking, authenticity, bi-racial identity, as well as the intricate facets of multiplicity and the fragmented self.
At the heart of this exhibition is her collection of over 100 hand-crafted masks. These three-dimensional self-portraits blend sculpture and wearability, offering a realistic yet uncanny and often distorted depiction of herself, each stemming from a plaster cast of her face. These masks are further portrayed within portraiture, video performances and traces of Miya’s body on the gallery walls. The benign gazes and expressions of the self-portraits invite viewers to engage and reflect, fostering a dialogue with the multifaceted ‘self’ represented in various forms.
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
2024
Z’otz* Collective, Bartering Futures
Eastern Edge Members’ Exhibition, LOOT BAG
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