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Theme: Sitework

30 Days in Tilting

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


Film (as Production Designer)

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


The Knowledge Exchange

Keels, Newfoundland. In concert with her Bonavista Biennale exhibition of Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge (ELK), Hall undertook a community residency on site in Keels, to engage directly with visitors and community members in the gathering and revealing some… Read More


Re-seeding the Dream East

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


Small Gestures

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


The Coil: A History in Four Parts

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


Worshipping the Stone

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


History Books and Travel Notes

The History Books (2005) The History Books emerged in 2005, an echo perhaps of other book projects Hall was working on, and a way to bring materiality back into her daily practice. They offered a balance to the digital work… Read More


Path to the Wishing Place

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


Sticks and Stones

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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Acknowledgements

Over the course of her career, Hall has received support from The Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNL, and other public and private sources in Canada and internationally.

The artist continues to be grateful for all of the help and assistance she has received towards the creation and presentation of her work. Various projects have their own Acknowledgements Section, please check there for specific details.


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© 2025 Pam Hall. Designed by Matthew Hollett.