A mixed media body of work, the Canine Chronicles was made up of paintings, drawings and prints. Following the abstract and labored works of Worshipping the Stone, the “dogs” were narrative, decorative and filled with joy and mischief. The main… Read More
Since 1987, Hall has worked as an Art Director and Production Designer in the independent film industry in Newfoundland. She has worked on feature films, television dramas, and mini-series, with an astonishingly talented group of writers, directors, producers and performers,… Read More
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Belly-bare, she rises, 1989, 30″x40″ What follows are excerpts from various connected suites of drawings Hall created between 1989 and 1991. All of these works are mixed media on rag paper, using a range of materials including oil stick, gesso,… Read More
Tools of the Trade In the winter of 1988, Hall began work in her studios to “keep her fishing” while Eli’s boats were tied up at the wharf waiting for another season on the water, and The Coil rested in… Read More
The Coil, and selected Biographical Notes, installation detail. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1995. “The Coil That Binds, The Line That Bends is both object and process, both work and way of seeing or knowing. As a sculptural form it… Read More
The Wounded Cross, 1987, mixed media on muslin paper, 14′×10′ “These works, made and marked by the beating of stone on paper, serve as offerings to a Nature which remains, for me, animated and alive… a Nature that belongs more… Read More
In the summer of 1988, Hall installed her first site-specific landwork as part of The International Sound Symposium. Working in St. Michael’s, a small village on the Southern Shore, she navigated down a steep hill to a beach where no… Read More
In the winter of 1988, Hall was missing being on the land with The Coil. She was longing for the connection and engagement of that enabling encounter with place, but since she could not lift The Coil alone, nor travel… Read More
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