Creative Minds

March 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join media arts professor David Clark and curator and Queer activist Robin Metcalfe as they guide us through the art and practice of Séamus Gallagher. 

This conversation will address Gallagher’s varied use of image making techniques, the role of drag and camp in their work, and representations of natural and artificial worlds amid the climate crisis. Clark and Metcalfe will speak to their experiences working with Gallagher while sharing their perspectives on the exhibition OH BABY

ASL interpretation services will be provided.

About Creative Minds:

The Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events, exhibitions on view, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation, music, poetry, or movement, these events aim to provoke new ideas, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved.

About the Presenters:

David Clark is media artist, writer, filmmaker, and sound artist who teaches at NSCAD University in Halifax. 

Robin Metcalfe  is a writer, curator, Queer cultural activist and community historian of Acadian and Newfoundland heritage. He served as Director/Curator of Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery 2004-2020. Since the mid 1970s, he has published journalism, cultural criticism, short fiction and poetry in over 65 periodicals and 15 anthologies. In 2000 he was awarded the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction for the book Studio Rally: Art & Craft of Nova Scotia (Goose Lane, 1999) and he was shortlisted for a National Magazine Award in 2004.