While Hall was working on the Women’s Work Blankets, many folks asked her if she was making quilts. These are not quilts, she replied. They are blankets… they have no pattern, or precision, no geometry or layering, and no over-sewing… Read More
Woman with her Head in the Clouds, 2021 Wrapped in one of the Women’s Work Blankets, a woman stands in the wind on the barrens in Grates Cove, Newfoundland. She is warmed and protected by the work of other women… Read More
The Dream Blanket- in progress, 2024 Between 2003-2007, Hall was working with ideas of female embodiment and its deep personal and political manifestations. In that context, she created a collaborative series of book works that explored female beauty and sexuality…. Read More
Between 2004-2008, Hall and Dragu made thousands of “memory cloths” during the 4-year daily correspondence of Marginalia. A great number of these “squares” remained after constructing the History House, and it is these “leftovers” that Hall is now transforming into… Read More
Granny Blanket #1, 2022-2025 Granny Blanket #2- in progress More than a decade ago Hall found some old hand-crocheted doilies in a thrift shop. They were priced at less than a dollar, but clearly represented many many hours of skilled… Read More
Included in GATHER at The Rooms in 2024, The Grandmothers’ Blanket emerged from two years of the artist’s hand stitching in conversation with a collection of mostly family linens that had been handworked by other women. Partly in… Read More
Details- The CLEAR Feasting Blanket Pam spent a number of months attending weekly lab meetings at CLEAR and in conversation with lab members developed a project that focussed on how we make knowledge. What IS scientific knowledge? Who gets to… Read More
As Artist-in-Residence in Tilting on Fogo Island, Pam remounted Re-Seeding the Dream for the last time, and tended the flying flour-bag fish daily for 21 days. Every day was different… shifting light and changing winds. She woke each morning to… Read More
An Artist’s Talk on 3 major projects from 1997-2020, hosted by the MFA Program at Grenfell Campus at Memorial University. Hall discusses the 20 year span between Re-Seeding the Dream (1997) and Re-Seeding East (2017), the ten year survey exhibition… Read More
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