In 2019, Pam returned to Fogo Island to work with Shorefast as they visioned the refurbishment and reclamation of the Punt Premise – four buildings in Joe Batt’s Arm active during the inshore fishery. Working partially as curator, and partly… Read More
Re-Seeding the Dream East 2017 Site-specific installation Commissioned by Bonavista Biennale Doran Meadow, Port Rexton, Newfoundland. The second iteration of Re-Seeding the Dream was commissioned by the inaugural Bonavista Biennale in 2017. It “finishes” the project begun by the first… Read More
This performative lecture was first delivered in 2003, within a graduate residency exploring the theme of Abundance, at Goddard College in Vermont. What follows are excerpts only – the full talk ran over 60 minutes with almost 80 images/slides. Using… 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
In 1997, Hall was invited to participate in an interdisciplinary research project examining ethical approaches to the fisheries crisis on Canada’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Working with scholars from across the disciplines, participating in discussion groups with stakeholders in Newfoundland… Read More
The Newfoundland inshore cod fishery had been closed down in 1992, with a moratorium to meet the failing stocks of groundfish in the oldest and historically most abundant fishery of North America. When invited to undertake a residency in farming… Read More
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