“I would like to present our art as a way to show people just how beautiful, interesting, and curious the world around us is.”
At a recent St John’s Farmers Market, one particular booth caught NQ’s eye. Our Curious Collections featured found objects and artifacts, seaglass and mermaid’s purses, whelk and periwinkle shells, curated…
“Shakespeare might well have called our island ‘one built by Nature for herself / Against infection and the hand of war’,” by Paul Rowe
Newfoundland and Labrador is a place of the sea. To paraphrase Keats: Its eternal whisperings have been heard for eons against our desolate shores. Even when the cod stocks were…
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Last year, the federal government established September 30 as Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day was already recognized as Orange Shirt Day, started in 2013 by…
Song’s “Eyes” and Bolt’s “Variations”: two new exhibitions to entrance and beguile
Ginok Song grew up in the city of Pusan, South Korea, where she was determined that she would pursue her interest in fine art professionally. In 1992 she entered Pusan…
Emily Urquhart: I like to say that I’m a journalist on the folklore beat
Thanks so much for taking time to do this. First I should say I meant to skim through Ordinary Wonder Tales, getting the gist of it to prepare for this…
Derek Keith Pelley (April 28, 1950 – August 27, 2022)
Derek Kelly was well known as a musician. He was a founding member of Figgy Duff – indeed he is credited with suggesting the name – a group formed as…