In Progress presents works by three artists currently in residence on Fogo Island: Alexander Shanks, Sarah Stevenson and Alexia Trawinski, and curated by Christiane Statham.

Join us for an opening celebration this Thursday, September 25 at 5:30 PM at the Red Shed in Shoal Bay.

Open Hours: Friday, September 26 through Sunday, September 28, 10 AM-5 PM.

Follow signage on Godwin’s Lane in Shoal Bay. 

Fogo Island is a place of perpetual artistic creation, its landscapes resounding with cultural activity and experimentation throughout the seasons. This exhibition brings together some of those ongoing processes in material form, asking us to consider the moment we define an artwork finished or complete. Works by the three participating artists will continue to be shaped after the exhibition in their studios scattered across the island, eventually making their way to far flung places around the world. These are artworks in motion, momentarily paused in progress. Together, these three artists demonstrate that the act of making art is a living and unending process and one that is in constant motion between thought and material. The exhibition briefly captures a moment in that continuing flow.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. #BringingTheArtsToLife

Participating artists:

Alexia Trawinski (France) studied in France and Germany and was part of the Paris-based women’s collective Le Cercle de l’Art. Working across gestural drawing, painting and architecture, her frequent use of natural materials draws the image into closer relation with place.

Alexander Shanks (USA) trained at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia and the New York Academy of Art, following an early education in his father’s studio. His paintings and drawings explore landscapes, people and the spaces where the two intertwine, reflecting on the interconnectedness of human presence and the natural world. Alexander is currently Eric Fischl-NYAA Curatorial Fellow with FIA.

Sarah Stevenson (Canada) creates suspended sculptures of thread, fishing line and wire that hover in space like three-dimensional drawings. Suggestive of natural forms, such as sea creatures, smoke and spectres, her works complicate the boundaries between drawing and sculpture, between abstraction and representation. These works shift with perspective, requiring the viewer to read them with their own bodies.

The exhibition is curated by Christiane Statham (Australia). Christiane is a curator from Sydney / Eora Country who works with artists to deliver art events, installations and exhibitions in unusual places. 

Photo by Jane Brokenshire.