Friday, April 17 - June 3, 2009
Spring at anderson
Start of the 5th season at anderson. This season featuring work of Clive Cretney, Lauren Henkin, André Gallant, Carol Kennedy, Declan O'Dowd, Mariëtte Roodenburg, and Graham Ward.

The exhibits will be changing on a monthly basis throughout the season. Currently showing: Declan O'Dowd's New York, Lost and Found. This series has been a work in progress since 1999, when Declan was living in Spanish Harlem and attending The Cooper Union School of Art in Manhattan for six months. While living in New York, he took in excess of 200 Polaroid images; a visual diary of the urban landscape he found, strolling the streets during the late night and early morning. The works on view have been re-shot from their original Polaroid format using a 4” x 5” large format camera and transferred to colour negatives. The enhanced contrast and colour imbalances resulting from the process showcase the objects, buildings, and storefronts in a new light and yet they retain the flavour of New York City.


Saturday, June 6 - July 1, 2009
Center Show:
Declan O'Dowd - Maritime Magnified
Hand printed colour photographs on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper.
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6, 2009, 4:00-6:00 pm.

Maritime Magnified examines the marks that a growing society is making on the contemporary urban landscape. Declan O'Dowd was born in Toronto and moved to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in his early teens. Driving around rural Nova Scotia, from the age of sixteen meant freedom and escape from the gaze of small town living. Areas like Saw Pit Road (The Pit), Donut Hill, and Hirtle's Beach became experimentation grounds to explore his creative freedom and remain an inspiration today. Trips abroad at this time as well; to Finland, the UK, France, the Netherlands, and the Caribbean, provided him a visual and anthropological approach to education not found at school.
Declan recieved a bursary to attend the Cooper Union Schoool of Art in New York City in 1999 and graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2000. Since graduating, he has photographed and lived abroad in the Southern United States and Asia. He now resides in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia where he continues his photographic journey.


Saturday, July 4 - July 30, 2009
Center Show:
André Gallant - Expressionism
Archival pigment ink prints.
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 pm.


Saturday, July 4 - July 30, 2009
One-Wall-Show:
Carol Kennedy - Out of the Dark
Archival pigment ink prints.
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 pm.


Saturday, August 1 - September 3, 2009
Center Show:
Retrospective: Five seasons at anderson
Photographic images of John Berridge, Angela Carlsen, Joanne Chilton, Mary Dixon, Dick Groot, Lauren Henkin, Sandy Leim, Kate MacLeod, Alex Meyboom, Sue Mills, Mariëtte Roodenburg, Cathy Salisbury, and Raoul Manuel Schnell.
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 pm.


Saturday, August 1 - September 3, 2009
One-Wall-Show:
Graham Ward - Rendition
Contemporary images of South Eastern Nova Scotia using mid-19th century processes.
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 pm.

Dry plate photography is the process of coating a glass plate with a light sensitive emulsion. Graham Ward makes his own emulsions according to long forgotten formulas. Each glass plate negative is exposed in a hand made camera, developed and contact printed onto archival paper coated with either Cyanotype or Vandyke formulas.The technique of using glass plate negatives has been around since mid-19th century but is rarely used today. The image produced from using a glass plate negative is unlike any other. It produces a sharp, detailed image that exudes a mood that only the viewer can interpret.

Graham has been photographing for nearly 18 years. Starting with a 35mm camera, he soon felt that there was more to photography than the conventional papers, film, and developers that you can buy at the store. He decided to learn everything about photography including developing formulas, building cameras, and unconventional printing processes, such as VanDyke and Cyanotype. Once he succeeded in making glass plate negatives using old formulaes, he realized he was no longer restricted to any particular film size or shape. He then started building cameras in many forms to suit the subject matter he was photographing.