Visual Arts News Magazine - Summer 2018 - HATCH - 40th Anniversary Issue

In this issue

Visual Arts News is dedicated to visual art in Atlantic Canada; every issue includes engaging exhibition reviews, artist profiles and in-depth features on issues facing art professionals across the province. As one of the oldest publications in Atlantic Canada, it is a well-trusted source of information for readers with a passion for its thriving visual arts scene. Written in a clear and sophisticated style by some of the most talented arts writers, Visual Arts News reflects the diversity of from our geographic and cultural communities.

In this 40th Anniversary issue of Visual Arts News there is a focus on The New Nova Scotia, where young painters like Waka Okabayashi commune with flowers, connecting with them as though they’re sentient beings; Artists pick up where their parent’s generation left off, staging their utopian dreams for living together better on this planet on Cape Breton Island; Lou Sheppard transforms the spaces between words in a diagnostic text listing criteria for gender dysphoria into bursts of dance, recoding them as queer spaces; and Ursula Johnson’s work appears like a an ad-style intervention.