Beaverbrook Art Fix

Monica and I, along with our son Ryan, had a wonderful visit to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton to see two amazing exhibits:

Radical Stitch (bead and embroidery)

Tom Thompson – North Star

The Beaverbrook is a favorite of ours. It’s big, bright and beautiful inside but small enough that you can see everything in a couple of hours. We always make sure to visit all the wing galleries even when we’re there for a specific exhibition.

The first exhibit was titled Radical Stitch. We saw many articles from suits of beautifully embroidered clothing to a variety of articles and wall art made out of thousands of tiny beads sewn onto cloth. We even met the Beaverbrook’s Artist in residence, Mel Beaullieu, and got to watch They/Them making art. Fascinating!

Next we saw the Tom Thompson exhibit. It was amazing to see so many of his paintings all together at once. They were curated from several galleries and private collectors. Great historical placards also on his life and work. Such a tragic end to his young life… in a canoeing accident on Canoe Lake. It must have been a favorite spot of his… there are paintings in this exhibit of Canoe Lake from 1915 and ’16. He was back there again in 1917, that’s where and when he died.