{"id":2682,"date":"2019-11-20T19:42:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/iis\/?page_id=2682"},"modified":"2019-11-20T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:42:16","slug":"november-lecture-shifting-sands-with-brenda-whiteway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/events\/past-events\/island-lecture-series-archive\/november-lecture-shifting-sands-with-brenda-whiteway\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Lecture Series \u2013\u00a0November 2019: “Shifting Sands: Capturing Climatic and Cultural Change Through Art” with Brenda Whiteway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
ISLAND LECTURE SERIES NOVEMBER LECTURE
Shifting sands: Capturing climatic and cultural change through art<\/strong>
Brenda Whiteway<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, November 19, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Island Lecture Series November lecture features Charlottetown visual artist Brenda Whiteway talking about her most recent undertaking, the White Sands PEI Shoreline Project. Her presentation melds images and words to create \u201cShifting sands: Capturing Climatic and cultural change through art.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The passage of time, transitions in nature, and shifting patterns of life have been recurrent themes in Brenda Whiteway\u2019s creative work.\u00a0The White Sands PEI Shoreline Project is a further exploration of these themes through paintings, drawings, photographs,\u00a0and mixed-media of a\u00a0small coastal area in White Sands, PEI, which has personal significance but resonates on a universal scale. The site originally belonged to her\u00a0maternal grandparents who had a subsistence farm and fished off the Northumberland Strait close to Pictou Island. Brenda\u00a0has been observing, recording, and researching the area\u2019s weather patterns, light, tidal shifts, flora and fauna, history, and cultural ecology. For her, this is a metaphoric petri dish through which cultural and climactic shifts may be viewed on an intimate scale and expressed creatively. Capturing the elusive qualities of the seasons through various art mediums while plants bloom and fade, tides shift, earth freezes and thaws, and the sky reveals its many moods is an attempt to capture the\u00a0genius loci\u00a0<\/em>of an area\u00a0the artist\u00a0holds dear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brenda Whiteway is a visual artist, specializing in painting, who lives and works on Prince Edward Island. She received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows, with her most recent solo exhibition being Botanicals<\/em>, a series of twenty paintings of flora, at Ravenwood House (home of the Island Nature Trust), in March 2019. Brenda\u2019s work is in many private and public collections, including Transport Canada, the Art Bank of the Canada Council, Prince Edward Island Art Bank, the permanent collection of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, and the City of Charlottetown. Art-making for Brenda is a way to find pattern amid chaos. Brenda\u2019s art enables her to communicate ideas and convey a sense of the world around her. From conception of an idea, through the struggle of creating something from that idea, art-making is a process that provides her with sense and purpose. Brenda\u2019s current work explores the passage of time\u2014particularly as it relates to rural life, past and present\u2014and the effects of urbanization and technology on traditional ways of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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