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
The Port Rexton Fish Blanket The Fish Blanket is made from 64 of the codfish-shaped windsocks that flew in Port Rexton at the 2017 Bonavista Biennale as part of Re-Seeding the Dream East. Picked apart stitch by stitch, each fish… Read More
When HouseWork(s) travelled to the Kamloops Art Gallery in 2015, Hall added a new performance piece that incorporated the “story aprons” from Auntie Crae’s in St. John’s, and the questions counting hours of housework for the work portraits from Arnold’s… Read More
Photo by Ned Pratt Photo by Ned Pratt Artist’s Statement HouseWork(s) presents work from the past decade of my practice – bringing solitary and private practices into conversation with collaborative and public projects. As an interdisciplinary artist who works both… Read More
In 2004, Hall began an ongoing visual dialogue and four-year long collaboration entitled Marginalia with Vancouver performance artist, Margaret Dragu. An extended, bi-coastal conversation was made visible through the daily making and sharing, by each artist, of a soft and… Read More
In the Spring of 2009, Hall began a new daily practice to remind herself to be attentive, awake, and mindful as she begins each day. Simple, humble and ephemeral – these performative gestures are enacted wherever the artist finds herself… Read More
Building A Village, exhibited in Kamloops, BC, 2015. Hall has used social media for many years—as a way to stay in touch with family, friends and colleagues, as well as to soften the isolation sometimes felt by island-dwellers. In the… Read More
For over three years Hall collected used aprons as the “material” for this large scale installation project, intended to investigate and honor “women’s work”, both domestic and industrial. In Newfoundland, aprons have been installed to explore the work of women… Read More
As part of her residency as the Inaugural Program Associate for RISD’s new Office of Public Engagement, Hall responded to the invitation to make new for a site-specific installation. Revisiting the preoccupations of Path to the Wishing Place (1988), and… Read More
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