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StFX Art Gallery, Mulroney Hall, room 2002
Please consider yourselves warmly invited to artist talks, given by both Thaddeus Holownia and Karen Stentaford. Both will talk about their respective artistic practices, as well as works in the exhibition "of a feather (in memory of Gay Hansen)." This exhibition is curated by Emily Falvey. Refreshments will be served.
Artist Biographies
Thaddeus Holownia is a teacher, visual artist, letterpress printer, and publisher. Born in 1949 in Bury St. Edmunds, England, he emigrated to Canada in 1954. In 2018, he retired from a forty-one-year career as a Professor of Art at Mount Allison University, where he also served as Head of the Fine Arts Department. In 1998 and 2006, he was awarded the Paul Paré Medal of Excellence, the university’s award in recognition of excellence in teaching, scholarship, service, and creative achievement. He is a Fulbright Fellow and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts. He was named to the Order of New Brunswick in 2015. On March 5, 2025, the Canada Council for the Arts named Holownia the recipient of the Governor General's Award for Visual and Media Arts - Artistic Achievement Award. Holownia’s artwork has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including Shutter (Nelson Museum Archives & Gallery, Nelson, BC); The Nature of Nature (Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS); 24 Tree Studies for Henry David Thoreau (Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY); and of a feather (Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON).
Karen Stentaford is an artist and educator living in Sackville, New Brunswick, within Mi’kma’ki. She specializes in large-format photography and the wet plate collodion process. Working in a variety of photographic-based media, her work explores place, belonging, and memory influenced by the Newfoundland landscape of her childhood. Stentaford received a MA in Photography from the Edinburgh College of Art, a BFA from Mount Allison University, and a BEd, Visual Arts Specialist, from NSCAD University and Mount Saint Vincent University. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Pierre Lassonde School of Fine Arts, Mount Allison University.
This event is generously sponsored by the Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership and the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government.
