Rhonda Pelley will give an artist talk in conversation with writer and artist Craig Francis Power on Wednesday, July 9, at 7pm, at Christina Parker Gallery.
We’d love for you to join us – this is your chance to find out more about Rhonda’s fascinating and ambitious exhibition "Certain Strange Visions".
Seven years in the making, this exhibition reimagines Newfoundland history and iconography through the 78 images of the Tarot, envisioning a conversation between past and present.
Bios:
Rhonda Pelley was born in St. John’s, then spent her early childhood in Nelson, British Columbia before returning to Newfoundland with her family in the late 1970s. Pelley is a second-generation visual artist who employs photography, compositing, collage techniques and data projection to create surreal and evocative images that explore the political and psychological aspects of identity. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Christina Parker Gallery, RCA, Headquarters 57 and Leyton Gallery (St. John’s), Campbell River Art Gallery (British Columbia), Galerie Les Territoires (Montreal), the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Musée de l’Elysée (Switzerland). Pelley’s artwork has been published in books and publications such as Chatelaine, Room, Geist, Newfoundland Quarterly and Riddle Fence, and she is the recipient of the Rogers Communication NL Book Writing Award for Non-Fiction for Island Maid – Voices of Outport Women (co-created by Sheilagh O’Leary). In 2018, her Newfoundland Tarot project was showcased in Canadian Art magazine in a feature article by Leah Sandals. Pelley lives in downtown St. John’s with her partner and their two cats.
Craig Francis Power is a visual artist and the award-winning author of three novels. Total Party K*ll (Breakwater, 2024), his first collection of poetry, is an exploration of addiction and sobriety through the vernacular, imagery, and lore of Dungeons & Dragons, the Fantasy-themed table-top role-playing game. He is the winner of SubTerrain’s Lush Triumphant Award for Poetry in 2023, the Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry in 2024, and his work will be included in the forthcoming Best Canadian Poetry (Biblioasis, 2025) in November. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland (Ktaqmkuk) with his wife, daughter, dog, and cat.
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