French Tour of Colville, Forrestall, Pratt & Pratt: The Work Behind The Work
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About the Event
In partnership with Alliance Française Halifax, we invite you to join a guided tour of the exhibition Colville, Forrestall, Pratt & Pratt: The Work Behind The Work in French.
Admission is free from 5-9pm during BMO Free Access Thursday Nights, however registration through AFH is encouraged.
About the Exhibition
Colville, Forrestall, Pratt & Pratt: The Work Behind the Work offers a rare glimpse into the fastidious processes of artists Alex Colville, Tom Forrestall, Christopher Pratt, and Mary Pratt, where visitors are invited to move beyond the finished works and explore the thought processes, skill, and careful observation behind Atlantic Canada’s most celebrated paintings.
This exhibition invites audiences into the meticulous world of Atlantic Realism—a distinctly Atlantic Canadian discipline that emerged in the 1960s by students at Mount Allison University, and defined by its precision, intellectual rigour, and careful observation of everyday life.
Through preparatory sketches, calculations, and material decisions, this exhibition highlights how each of these artists developed distinct practices within a shared tradition—one that ranges from Colville’s mathematically precise constructions and Forrestall’s sensory engagement with nature, to Christopher Pratt’s minimalist Newfoundland landscapes, and Mary Pratt’s luminous domestic still lifes.
