Sarah Irwin - Fine Artist
Hacketts Cove, Nova Scotia
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I have always been a compulsive maker.
To produce an object has been the solvent for a curious, racing mind since I was very young. When I realized many of my ideas were difficult to explain in words and that I was often the only one who cared if they came into existence or not, I knew I was an artist. I graduated from Georgian College in Ontario and then NSCAD in Halifax. Both of these educational adventures were incredible, and they left me haunted with the knowledge that you can not learn enough when it comes to art. Since 2001 I have been in Nova Scotia finding, salvaging, and reinventing objects. Nothing gets my muse going better than a forgotten box of clutter. Or a blank canvas. Or the uncarved block. Or, best of all a phone call from someone who needs a creative project accomplished. |
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Curriculum Vite -Sarah Irwin
Education BFA, Fine Art Interdisciplinary 2003 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, NS Honors, Fine Art Diploma 2001 Georgian College, Barrie, ON Design Fundamentals Diploma 1999 Georgian College, Barrie , ON Solo Shows September 2018 Poet Trees 14 Bells Art Gallery , Hydrostone Market, Halifax NS November 2017 A Cattharsis Irwin Gallery Hacketts Cove, NS May 2016 An Island Somewhere New Paintings, Lee Contemporary, Orillia ON May 2013 Hammered-New Sculptures, Andrea Redmond Gallery February 2013 The Wee Tree Button Project, fundraiser September 2012 Reassembled, Jo Beale Gallery June 2011 New Paintings, Jo Beale Gallery October 2010 New Paintings, Tantallon Public Library May 2010 the Fine Line - A Two Dimensional Exhibit in Three Places, Jo Beale Gallery January 2009 Parts of The Process, Tantallon Public Library May 2008 Reinventing the Imaginary Tree, Jo Beale Gallery June 2005 Awkwardly Beautiful, Od Red Schoolhouse, Peggy's Cove March 2004 Stoneflakes on Common Things, The Manor Gallery, Halifax October 2002 Stones I Have Known, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD U Group Exhibitions March 2016 New work in Metal and Paint, Art 1274 Hollis, Halifax NS August 2014 Earth Wind Fire, Art 1274 Hollis, Halifax, NS June 2014 1000 Ways to Look at Things, Jo Beale Gallery, Glen Margaret, NS June 2002 In Advance of Metal, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD U, Halifax Summer 2001 Endless summer, Zephyr Gallery, Orillia, ON March 2001 Chiaroscuro, Campus Gallery, Georgian college, Barrie , ON November 2001 White Chocolate, Zephyr Gallery, Orillia, ON August 1999 Atmosphere, shilling Gallery, Rama ON Related Experience Finalist for Kingsbrae Gardens Canadian Sculpture Competition, 2014 Administrator of The Wee Gallery at The Finer Diner, Hacketts Cove Co-President of The Peggy's Cove Area Festival of the Arts Society, 2013 Art Instructor at The Creation Station, Head of St. Margaret's Bay, NS Past Instructor for NSCAD's Continuing Education Department Halifax, NS Past instructor for MacLaren Art Center's Van Go Program Barrie ON Past member of Zephyr Gallery for Working Artists, Orillia ON Member of Art 1274 Hollis Cooperative Gallery, Halifax, NS Commissions 2011 Played, in collaboration with Camerata Xara Young Women's Choir, Halifax, NS 2010 Tree of Life, in collaboration with Camerata Xara Young women's Choir, Halifax, NS 2009 Mural for Jeremy's Bay Campground, Kejimkujik National Park, NS Awards Simcoe County Arts and Crafts Association Excellence in Sculpture Scholarship, 2001 Georgian college Printmaking Award of Merit, 2001 Georgian College 3rd Year Fine Arts Graduate Scholarship, 2001 Barrie Art Club Scholarship, 2000 |
I am attracted to organic forms, things worn by nature, and concepts of growth and decay. I love the idea that a common object can become something completely new. Art is all around us if we pay attention; it’s just waiting to be reintegrated back into the world.
This collection of interests is constantly turning into paintings, ink drawings, assemblages, prints, and stone sculpture. Imagination is a skill many of us unlearn as we age, my job as the artist is to remind people of this. If I have increased a sense of wonder I have succeeded.
This collection of interests is constantly turning into paintings, ink drawings, assemblages, prints, and stone sculpture. Imagination is a skill many of us unlearn as we age, my job as the artist is to remind people of this. If I have increased a sense of wonder I have succeeded.