The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns (THOT J BAP)

Thrilled to have created the art for 2 covers of the multi-part series written by Renée Sarojini Saklikar.

“The ambitious second instalment of Renée Sarojini Saklikar’s epic fantasy saga in verse, The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns (THOT J BAP).

This book-length poem features the time-travelling demigoddess Bramah, a locksmith and the saga’s hero. In Bramah’s Quest, the year is 2087 and Bramah is back on a planet Earth ravaged by climate change and global inequality. Bramah is on a quest to find her people, including the little boy Raphael, last seen at the end of Bramah and the Beggar Boy (2021). Hailed as “brilliant and masterful, timely” (Kerry Gilbert), this long poem reclaims poetry forms such as blank verse, the sonnet, the ballad and the madrigal. Each page is a portal, connecting readers to the resistance of seed savers, craftspeople, scientists and orphans, all banded together to help save their world from eco-catastrophe and injustice.

Ten years in the making, Bramah’s Quest weaves poetry with politics to create an epic family saga that is also a meditation on good and evil and a “real page turner” (Meredith Quartermain). Bramah, “brown, brave and beautiful,” is determined to conquer the odds and deal with what fate and chance throw in her path. Each twist and turn tests her ability to live up to the motto “Let all evil die and the good endure.”

Source: Harbour Publishing

Gillian Lowndes Award 2023

The Gillian Lowndes Memorial Award is given to an individual who has demonstrated long-standing achievement, innovation, and recent growth in their artistic discipline. The award was created in 1981 to honour the life and talent of Gillian Lowndes, a promising young Sunshine Coast dancer and vice-president of the Arts Council. Gillian died of cancer in 1981. This year’s recipient is Nadina Tandy, a visual artist living in Gibsons, BC whose breakout 2017 exhibition “Exquisite Corpse” with the late Donna Balma has expanded her work locally and internationally to include solo exhibitions, innovative public art installations, book cover commissions, and a curatorial residency at ART PAWN CO/LATERAL in New York City this past June.

AWARDED 22/23

Photo Credit M. Tandy

skART_enterprise |ART PAWN

Thrilled to be included in this invitational show ~~~

“Art Pawn, we buy new and used art” is a fictional pawn shop that breaks the norms of curation and the formal rules of presenting art. Conceived as an interactive project, Art Pawn is a space to bring in new and aspiring curators and collectors.

Artist/curator Jody MacDonald presents Co/lateral, an invitational show featuring selected artworks from MacDonald’s personal collection (“used” works) alongside “new” works (available for purchase) from these same artists.

MacDonald has worked over three decades, within a limited budget, to build a collection of whimsical and challenging work. This exhibit features nine talented emerging artists collected by MacDonald within the past nine years. Chosen for their skill, irreverence, and wit, Co/lateral introduces novice collectors to art that delights, art that disturbs, and art that manages to do both simultaneously.

Opening reception: Sat, June 10, 6-8pm

Panel Talk - Adventures in Art Collecting: Sun, June 11, 3-4pm

Closing Party: Fri, June 16, 6-8pm

Co/lateral Exhibition Hours: Daily, 11am-6pm

skARTS_ENTERPRISE

38 West 28th Street, 2nd Floor

Buzzer #2

New York, NY

Artists: Ann Cofta (Queens, NY), Maria Dimanshtein (Chicago, IL), Stephanie Eche (Brooklyn, NY), Tzaddi Gordon (Sechelt, BC), Peter Gynd (Houston, TX/qathet, BC), June Kosloff (aka jkosart, New York, NY), Maria Yolanda Liebana (Queens, NY), James Seffens (New York, NY), Nadina Tandy (Gibsons, BC).

Regeneration

Regeneration

When it comes to the visual, the word can be a gateway, an entry, to insight and meaning not immediately apparent. In my mind, I have many words to describe my art but the challenge lies in putting those words down in order to provide context for the viewer. My primary language is a visual one and, as a connection to a collective unconscious, is not always easily translated. And so, I am left with words to try and clarify.

My series, Generational Imprints, has gone from a private endeavour to a public exhibition and will, I hope, hold more potency by being shared. As an examination of  personal pathways and the generational impact of the past on the present /future, some will relate, some will simply hold witness, others may enjoy the questions raised and still others may just walk away.  

Regeneration

collage video

Art EXHIBITION : Generational Imprints

“Generational Imprints”

contemporary art

The medium is analogue collage reproduced in print. The portraits started from photographs which were enlarged 3' x4' and intuitively reconfigured. Not so much painting pretty pictures, I am asking the viewer to ask questions of themselves. The following is my statement for the portraits on display. Also on display will be small analogue collage prints which have been part of my art practice for the last few years.

GENERATIONAL IMPRINTS

Showing and not telling is a theme throughout my artistic practice. A narrative of three generations of faces, grandmother, mother and daughter are explored in large format collage. Reconfigured faces which are easily matched but ever so off. Familiar patterns and parallel parts which shift to become unknown, uneasy.

Generational Imprints is my current body of work sharing with the viewer pieces of personal history and influence, flowers, wallpaper, patterns..etc.

The Gumboot Café

1053 Roberts Creek, B.C.

heart of the creek

604-885-4218

September 2 -September 30

8am -4pm daily (closed Tuesdays)

Artist in our Midst 2020 Nadina Tandy

Artist in our Midst artist-in-residence March- June 2020

Dear friends and art lovers,
Beginning in March through June of this strange year, with the support of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council and Sechelt Downtown Business Association, I was thrilled to be the inaugural 'Artist in our Midst' of a newly established artist-in-residence program. A vacant storefront in downtown Sechelt in the BMO building was generously provided as a working artist's studio with plenty of room to explore and develop ideas with an eye to community engagement through art. This would provide a challenge in a time of social distancing and isolation.

At the beginning of March, I brought my selected art supplies to the place I came to call Studio S. Starting a new project always has a few false starts, but once I'd established my routine, I was on a roll. I worked 5 days a week drawing strange and fantastical images on the windows and creating dreamlike collage creatures, mounting them on sticks (almost like shadow puppets) and grouping and rearranging them in the windows in a strange dance that people could view without entering the studio. Unwittingly, an art exhibition in isolation was created fulfilling the requirement for community engagement by being accessible to all, safely from the street. My final contribution and leave behind was to enlarge a few select collages and wheat-paste them to the wall on Periwinkle lane.

As part of the Artist in our Midst residence, I took over the sunshinecoastarts Instagram account for a little over a week in order to share the work and progress coming out of Studio S. I attempted to engage interested art fans and managed to add some followers to the SCAC account. I even had curious visitors tap on the window after learning the location of Studio S and what was going on there through Instagram. The takeover also drew new followers to my own personal profile, as well. While providing challenges as a closed studio, I managed to find creative and playful ways to connect and engage with the community visually.

The studio was an enjoyable and productive experience for me and I was able to focus, explore and develop a series of new works. As well, several opportunities emerged as a result of the work I created during my artist-in residence. I was contacted by North Vancouver's Artists for Gordon Smith Gallery to participate as a featured artist along with Karin Bubas for AFK at Home video hosted by artist and educator Amelia Epp. Also, a thrilling invitation for Artist-in-residence at AFK Gordon Smith Gallery is being planned for Spring 2021.

There was a social-distancing interview with Rik Jespersen for the Coast Reporter and countless interactions with people looking through the window at the art I was making. Also in response to the weird and wonderful collages I created at the Studio I have ventured into the production of custom designs for t shirts, ready to be ordered and worn. There will be more products and ideas to come so please check back for up-dates. In the mean time open the link for a boo at the Collage Character designs, order a shirt or two and take them for a walk.
Thanks to all for the support to explore and build new work. Having an unfamiliar studio space and trying to engage the community in the age of social distancing forced me to flex a different set of creative muscles and is an important part of my forward creative momentum.

Warm Regards, Nadina

Photo credit Christina Symons  ‘Installation 2020’, Periwinkle Lane, Sechelt, B.C.  by N.Tandy

WEARABLE ART COLLECTION by Nadina Tandy

Dear art lovers,

I have been assembling and creating collage characters at Studio S, cutting up old magazines, ephemera, photographs and other catalogues that were found or gifted to me. The Covid-19 pandemic has influenced my work in an unexpected way. I realized I was holding back by keeping the material intact, they needed to be repurposed, not saved. Previously I was scanning images from cherished copies of old Life and movie magazines for my collage work. Now I am simply taking my scissors or x-acto blade to the image. There is a liberation in this act, a commitment that gives a life force to these recent collages. Once completed I adhere the collage to a stick and install them in the studio window. Currently the growing narrative is on display for the public to view in downtown Sechelt, B.C. : artist-in-residence until the end of June 2020.

In response to the weird and wonderful collages I have created at the Studio I have made custom designs on t-shirts that are ready to be ordered and worn. There will be more products and ideas to come so check back for up-dates. In the mean time open the link for a boo at HooHoo designs, order a shirt or two and take them for a walk.

Collage Characters by Nadina Tandy

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Studio S

art loves you

photo credit S.Levin

HooHoo in the garden ©️ 2020

Nadina Tandy

Dispatches from Studio S | artist-in-residence 2020

Dispatches from Studio S

 Experimentation and improvisation has always played an important role in my creativity.

 Dear art lover,
  At it's core, my art making has always been about being able to make something from what was at hand. Even as a child, my play revolved around developing and exploring elaborate architectural designs using the materials I found around the house and in the yard. Garden materials and found scraps of wood formed the basis for a reinvented world, that previously existed, only in my mind. Creating something new from the resources I was able to acquire had always been more interesting and enjoyable for me than playing with the manufactured ‘toy’ built and packaged for a child's amusement. Play and creativity is problem solving, a crucial development in a child’s evolution. Often this aspect of play gets lost or forgotten as we grow older and move down life's path. To this day, my artistic practice starts with the seed of something found, the spark an idea, an inspiration, and coaxing that seed into art of my own creation. If I find myself too rigid in an idea or my inspiration dries up, I will simply start again from the beginning and go back to the unknown that starts it all. Found materials, play and experiment.

Stay well,

Nadina

Tea with Bonnie Prince Charles

collage on a stick

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