News Items Starting from 2021, date of start of website
solo exhibition WATERSMEET
With appreciation to the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario for support through an Exhibition Assistance Grant.
December 2024
Horned Beast is on display in Celebrating 40 Years at Christina Parker Gallery
50 Water Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador
December 2024
Bill Staubi, esteemed collector and art advocate has made a generous donation of works from his extensive art collection to the Ottawa Arts Council / Conseil Des Arts D’Ottawa initial online charity auction closing November 30, 2024.
Night Songbird, painted in 2020 is part of the selection being offered in the on line silent auction.
April 2024
Newfoundland Quarterly
Volume 115 Number 4, Spring 2023
Paintings Janus Moon and Deliah published in Portfolio theme of Colour
50th Anniversary Exhibition
Craft Council of Newfoundland & Labrador
Curated by Bruno Vinhas
September – December 20, 2022
155 Water Street, St. John’s, NL
Play, Stoneware
Collection of the Craft Council of Newfoundland & Labrador
The Narrative Continues, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, October 2022
The Narrative Continues
Solo Exhibition of New Paintings
October 20 to November 5, 2022
258 Dundas Street, London, Ontario
In The Makings
Mushroom Picker is on display in the exhibition In the Makings presented by The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, NL
April 2021 – May 2024
Mushroom Picker, 2000, Stoneware Clay, H42 L25 W32 cm, Collections of the Government of Newfoundland & Labrador
Mark Makers is published in
Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador
by Mireille Eagan, “Future Possible, An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador” Goose Lane Editions, 2021
Community Profiles
Late Fall 2021 News Blast
McKellar’s Reed Weir
by Mary Jane Gomes
| Internationally acclaimed sculptor Reed Weir, born in McKellar, returns establishing a painter’s studio. Pursuing painting through practise in sculpture, Reed Weir’s mastery of space, materials, textures and reflection map the dilemmas we face and our passage through them. She depicts us as integral to the ecosystem and it is the human interaction therein that jettisons Weir into motion. Whether wavering birdlike hands or inquisitive and arrested childlike beings, her images affront, the impish child intertwines with nature, hands flying through space occupied by imagination that sees us as part of the multi-dimensional. Weir playfully weds us to the ethereal reality of our existence. She insists the deliberately impish child of her art disarms viewers. Crafting at least four conversations in every piece, Weir denies enforced narrative. Yet evolving landscape and characters around her manifest, alive, specific. Mastering technique, Weir renders surfaces transparent allowing meaning and feeling to come through her very fingertips, exuding deep caring about the world and “we” in it. The stance of Weir’s characters is evocative, deeply of the earth. Her imagination is rife with a wild humour. Her work is engaging, will depict life here and offer reflexive insight. It deserves to be contemplated and enjoyed. |
Reed Weir 