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
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Eastern Edge Annual Members’ Exhibition
July 18 – August 28, 2025
EE’s Annual Members’ Exhibition presents an opportunity for Eastern Edge Members to showcase what they have been working on, alongside other members of the community. With an open theme, the exhibition always promises an exciting breadth of styles and mediums. Check out the active Call for Members’ Exhibition Submissions, and look forward to another spread of incredible work!!
Spirit Song Exhibition
November 7 – December 13, 2025
Eastern Edge is proud to partner with First Light to host programming in our Main Gallery, in celebration of Spirit Song Festival!
Spirit Song 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.
From exhibitions highlighting incredible work by Indigenous artists, to panel discussions, artist talks, and workshops, Spirit Song Festival programming is always a sincere pleasure to have in our space. Stay tuned to see what will be in the Main Gallery for Spirit Song 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
2025
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
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