Sara hartland-Rowe
About the Artist
Sara Hartland-Rowe is a painter and installation artist who has lived and worked in Halifax since 2000. She has shown across Canada, in the US, and in Europe, and is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council, Arts Nova Scotia, the Ontario Arts Council. Recently, she completed a large-scale permanent site-based commission for Halifax Transit that was short-listed for the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award; her work is in public and private collections.
Artist Statement
I started drawing as a young child, and my work for many years has been based in observation of the visible world. Of late, though, I have become deeply interested in the moment of perception that occurs before individual form is perceived, but after an overall visual experience of objects, figures and space has occurred. I think of this as a very brief flash, in which one understands what one is looking at but has not yet separated forms and colours from each other. The paintings I am currently making are intended to re-ignite that brief experience, suggesting physical space, objects placed in relation to one another, light, shadow and time of day, but stopping short of the separation that happens when recognition and naming begins.
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C.V.
EDUCATION
1991 -1993 MFA Studio Art Department, The University of Illinois at Chicago
1987 -1990 BFA, Honours in Studio, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
EMPLOYMENT
2000 - present Part-time Instructor, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2014 Travellers, Halifax Tranist Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia; nominated for the Lieutenant-Governor’s Masterworks Award,
2015
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 Look to the Living, Mount St Vincent University Art Gallery, Haifax
2007 Drawings and Other Things, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Nova Scotia
2004 All things good and pure, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
2003 The Prince, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario
2002 The world in the evening, [catalogue] Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2001 Blundering Folklore, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2000 What are days for? (catalogue), London Regional Art and Historical Museum, Ontario
Or(2 person show with David Merritt), Art Gallery of Simcoe, Simcoe, Ontario
Peaceable Kingdom , Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario
1998 Small World (catalogue), Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Ontario
1996 Origo Pudenda, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Inside, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto
2010 Mayor’s Prize for Contemporary Art (shortlist)
2009 New Drawings, New Bedford Art Gallery, Bedford, Massachusetts
National Juried Drawing Show, Whitewater Gallery, North Bay
2007 You Are Here; The Emotional Geography of Place, Eastern Edge, Toronto
2006 Paperworks, Mount St Vincent Gallery, Halifax
2003 Tekiningen III, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Wallworks, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2002 Short Stories, Art Gallery of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Drawing Exhibition, Quartair Conemporary Art Initiatives, the Haag, Netherlands
2000 SingleTree, London Regional Art and Historical Museum, London, Ont.
1998 Dreadsville, Kenderdine Gallery, The University of Saskatoon, Saskatoon
At the edge of everything, Koffler Centre, Toronto
Moments entrlelaces, La Centrale, Montreal
Common Ground, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Layers, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Cross-eyed , Toronto, Ontario
1997 Public Order: Southwest Triennial, Art Gallery of Windsor (catalog)
Sprawl, Mercer Union, Toronto
Common Cents, Artcite, Windsor
CARO, International Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
AWARDS
2015 Finalist, Lieutenant-Governor’s Masterworks Award
2008 Canada Council Project Grant
Nova Scotia Arts Council Creation Grant
2002 Canada Council ‘B’ Grant
Canada Council Travel Grant
1998 Banff Centre for the Arts Residence Scholarship
1996 Canada Council 'C' Grant
1995 Ontario Arts Council Visual Art Grant
1994 Ontario Arts Council Exhibitions Assistance Grant
REVIEWS
2015 “Inside Blackwood’s New Exhibit, Andrea Mihai, The Medium, Jan 29, 2015
2014 “Luminous Landmark Greets Bus Travellers”, Lianne Heller, Chronicle Herald, September 12, 2014
“Lonely Travellers”, Stephanie Johns, The Coast, August 21, 2014
“Jazzy Transit Terminal to Add Some Culture”, Geordan Omand, March 4, 2014
2012 “Painters Figures Tell a Story”, Elissa Barnard, Chronicle Herald, July 29, 2012
2007 “In the Narrative”. Elissa Barnard, Halifax Daily Herald, 2007
2002 “Short Stories captivating”, Sigrid Dahle, Winnipeg Free Press, May 16th, 2002
“The world in the evening”, Rebecca Roberts, Arts Atlantic, Summer 2002
2001 “The lost art of drawing, reborn”, Sarah Milroy, Globe and Mail, December 1st, 2001
“The thread of an artist’s argument”, Gary Michael Dault, Globe and Mail, November 3,
2000 "Artist Finds Tiny Details", Sandra Coulson, London Free Press, January 20, 2000
1998 “Metaphysical pocket". Garry Michael Dault, Globe and Mail, August 30th, 1998
Works of the cloth and works of the body", Garry Michael Dault, Globe and Mail, July 31
"Painting's Hurts", Patrick Mahon, Parachute, Summer 1998
1997 "Common Cents", Michael Czyprina, Mix Magazine, Fall 1997
1996 "These Lists Can't Be Missed", John Bentley Mays, The Globe and Mail, February 10th,