Eastern Edge’s rOGUE Gallery is a space that is dedicated to showcasing work by Eastern Edge members, with a special focus on local practices and works by artists with a connection to Newfoundland and Labrador. Programmed through an annual call for submissions, the gallery highlights experimental art practices, and supports artists in the emerging stages of their career.
Starting in 2025, Eastern Edge will reserve one of the six-week exhibition slots in the rOGUE Gallery for community programming each year, usually running in the Spring. During this time, exhibitions and events by community groups and partner organizations will be on display. Exhibiting space in our province is limited, but our local arts community is robust, thriving, and ever-growing. With our rOGUE’s Community Slot, we hope to provide the much-needed space for community groups to share their hard work and programs with everyone!
Current Exhibition
Zinefest Pop-up Library
rOGUE Community Slot Programming
March 28 – April 19, 2025
In celebration of our recent Zinefest, we have a sweet little Zine library pop-up installed in the rOGUE Gallery over the next few weeks! The Zine Library will be open during our regular gallery hours for you to check out at your leisure, and will remain on display until April 19th. Come on in to hang out on the comfy couches and read some of the wonderful zines that have been donated by visiting artists and community members alike!
Upcoming Exhibitions
CASEY: I AM HERE
rOGUE Community Slot Programming
April 25 & 26, 2025
CASEY (Coalition Against the Sexual Exploitation of Youth) holds an annual art show – I AM HERE – showcasing powerful artworks drawn from lived experience of sexual exploitation. This powerful display includes visual, written, and spoken art forms. This event is held to give voice to survivors of sexual exploitation, to bring greater awareness to the reality of sexual exploitation in our province, and to serve as a call for action. Combating sexual exploitation requires systematic cross-sector collaboration, but first it requires a community that loudly acknowledges its existence.
presents:
Celebrating 15 years of independent art and music
rOGUE Community Slot Programming
May 1 – 10, 2025
Running from May 1st – 10th, visit the rOGUE Gallery to see a retrospective of 15 years of art at Lawnya Vawnya. Featuring music, posters, merch, programs, and more! Come look back and celebrate over 2,000 artists who have touched and influenced Lawnya Vawnya over the years.
Kathryn D’Agostino, A Meal with Friends
May 23 – July 5, 2025
A Meal with Friends is an invitation by artist Kathryn D’Agostino to gather together for conversations about community and sustainability. This interactive art piece encourages people to not just touch the art but to rearrange it and to sit with it and to sit with others.
Sitting in conversation with others around a table of food is a common experience and yet it is always changing reflecting the spiraling nature of simultaneously building community and self-identity. Food can be comfort and connection, it can also be divisive, and it has intimate ties to ourselves and our communities.
Raianny Queiroz, Sensory Movements
July 18 – August 30, 2025
In a world dominated by virtual interactions and fast consumption of images, this exhibition seeks to slow down the spectator and reconnect them with the physical and sensory world. This watercolor painting incorporates transparent fabrics, the exhibition allows visitors to reshape and transform their surroundings. It creates a living environment where the boundaries between art and nature blur, offering a tactile and visual journey that mirrors the organic movements found in the natural world.
Luanne Dominix, With Quiet Hands
November 7 – December 13, 2025
With Quiet Hands is a series of watercolour paintings that explores the delicate balance between tradition and modernity. Through a nuanced celebration of butchery as both craft and ritual, the exhibition invites contemplation of our intertwined relationships with food, identity, and sustainability, while contrasting traditional skills with our growing, modern-day detachment from food sources.
Bethany MacKenzie, (DE)COMPOSING
February 6 – March 21, 2026
(DE)COMPOSING marks MacKenzie’s first solo exhibition and shares work that explores the relationship between her body and place as they exist within the complex histories and heritage that they both carry. Using textiles, paper making and performance combined with photo-documentation by Johnny C. Y. Lam, MacKenzie questions and examines how colonization and patriarchy have severed and stigmatized Queer-Femme identity from the land while actively creating space for unmasked Queer expression and joy. Using the Ghillie-Suit, a traditional Scottish camouflage-garment that is most commonly seen through militaristic uses, MacKenzie creates an anti-camo suit that dances along the coast of Bonavista, their current place of residence. (DE)COMPOSING refers to both the breakdown of material after death, as well as the ways we “compose” ourselves in our everyday lives. While their work appears monstrous and at times, grotesque, this exhibition is an amalgamation of Queer-Femme expression that draws attention to what is perceived to be threatening, but in temporal simultaneity is both powerful and gentle, strong and soft.
Kristen Piercey, IntimaCy
June 12 – July 25, 2026
Through the use of doilies, IntimaCy calls to question the inherent societal expectations surrounding intimate sexual relationships and how social faux pas around discussing sex outside of a medical setting impacts disabled people through involuntary isolation. This piece allows viewers to reconsider their ideas around privacy and how they may approach accessibility in an intimate context while gaining a visual understanding of the physical and mental burdens of intimacy complications in someone as a result of chronic illness.
Ernest Boateng, POP YOUR COLLAR
August 14 – September 26, 2026
This exhibition celebrates the untold stories of tradespeople in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, and beyond. Through intimate portraits, workplace scenes, and artifacts, Ernest Boateng bridges local and global narratives, capturing the humanity, craftsmanship, and resilience of workers. Highlighting the intersections of labour, identity, and culture, the exhibit invites viewers to reflect on the vital contributions of these “unsung heroes” to our communities.
Katelyn Dobbin, Knowing, Not Knowing, and Being Known
Knowing, Not Knowing, and Being Known interrogates the intersections of gender, nature, and the grotesque in Newfoundland fairy lore and the artist’s memories of growing up in the St. John’s metropolitan area. Using experimental papermaking, quilting, and embroidery techniques that metaphorically recall the body and fragmentary nature of memory, Dobbin explores the multiplicity of identity—generating dialogue about the complexities of Newfoundland culture.
Past Exhibitions
2025
2024
Tessa Graham, Home as Place, Home as Pattern
Kevin Melanson, Making Ends Meet
2023
Kayla Williams: Goddess of the Sea
Monica Ila: I Dream In Shapes and Shadows
Christeen Francis: Love Under the Patriarchy – Portraits
Eastern Edge x Artforce NL: Wake Up Inspired
2022
Charlene Denief: Walking Away From Yourself
Shazia Ahmad: Three Years, Two Gardens, One Feeling
Alex Antle: Njiknam (My Younger Brother)
Mural Honouring Essential Workers
2021
Dion Kaszas | Nlaka’pamux Blackwork: Tattooing for Transformation, Healing, and Adornment
Bruno Vinhas | When it Stopped
100 Mini Houses; A Downtown Exploration | Molly Margaret
Lily Taylor | Funk Dance for Self Defence
2020
2019
Jude Benoit | Diary of a e’pite’ji’j: hypervigilant love
John MacCallum | Forever Young
Michelle Sylliboy | Komqwejwi’kasikl
Benjy Kean | Not as lost as you think
2018
Ashley Hemmings | SOUVENIR DOCUMENTS
Ethan Murphy | Where the Light Shines First
2017
Virginia Mitford | Alluvium: To Wash Against
Emily Pittman | A House of Another Colour