Exciting news! Artlink is welcoming Micheal Pitman from GrandFalls, Newfoundland
to Fort Dunree, Co. Donegal, Ireland from June-July 2025
Michael Pittman was born in Newfoundland and Labrador to parents of mixed Indigenous/settler descent. He has a BFA from Memorial University, and a practice led master’s degree from the Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Michaels work visually explores the impact of trauma and grief through landscape and is informed by a relationship with the geography, history and regional vernacular culture(s) of Newfoundland and Labrador. Formally, the work sits at the periphery of an established convention of landscape painting in the province, while also attempting to overturn some of the tropes that are ensconced in this visual tradition. The ways in which we interact with our surroundings are necessarily changing. As the natural world becomes less “passive” and catastrophic events occur more frequently, questioning our connection to the land and sea has become increasingly important.
Ethan Murphy
from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador will be traveling to
Fort Dunree, Co. Donegal, Ireland. June 2024
Swimming Pool, 2023
Rabbits, 2023
Rock Island Conveniece, 2023
Ethan Murphy is a visual artist from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador where he continues to live and work. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography Studies from the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University and is one of the founders of DarkNL Community Darkroom. His practice reflects on specificity of place while considering the importance of Newfoundland's rural environment. Murphy’s work is conceived from a fluctuating perspective acquired from leaving and returning to the island, enabling him to renegotiate his connection to its remote areas. He reconciles his relationship with identity, loss, memory, and family while examining the Newfoundland landscape post cod moratorium, pointing to a series of economic blows dealt to the province over the past half century.
Murphy has exhibited internationally, at the National Gallery of Canada and was awarded the New Generation Photography award in 2019.