Hall spent two years in The Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University as their first artist in residence. This was a major project for her – and the deep engagement with a non-art community on a daily basis, proved transformative… 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
Mending the Invisible Wound Directed by: Pam Hall Produced by: Dr. Angela Rivers, Dr. Michelle Young, Pam Hall Running Time: 17 min.21 sec. While artist-in-residence Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine, Hall worked with two family practice residents to create a… Read More
NRFA at the AGNL, St. John’s, 2001. Photo by Justin Hall. New Readings in Female Anatomy opened at the AGNL in St. John’s in 2001. A large and layered installation representing 6 years of work, it consisted of a series… Read More
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
Skinned Alive, 1991, acrylic on canvas, pieced oilskins, boat tarpaulin, brass grommets, and rope, approximately 8’×8′ Even though the cod fishery had not yet been closed, there was crisis in the talk of fishermen on Eli’s crew who Hall was… Read More
Hall’s continuing explorations with fishing and its tools, led her in 1991 to create this series of drawings of single objects. The long and meditative process of attending, then making visible, was as much a product her own relation to… 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
Hall spent time in Bonavista, Newfoundland, talking with old and young fishers in the area – asking about the inshore cod fishery and its traditions – and about how knowledge was shared and passed down between generations. Fragments from the… 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
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