Craig Francias Power
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
2026
Craig Francis Power (he/him) is a visual artist and the award-winning author of three novels. Total Party Kill (Breakwater, 2024), his first collection of poetry, is an exploration of addiction and sobriety through the vernacular, imagery, and lore of Dungeons & Dragons, the Fantasy- themed table-top role-playing game, and was longlisted for a Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. He is the winner of SubTerrain’s Lush Triumphant Award for Poetry in 2023, the Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry in 2024, and his work was included in Best Canadian Poetry (Biblioasis, 2025).
As a visual artist, his hooked rugs, installations, and videos have shown widely across Canada in solo and group exhibitions, and he has participated in artist residencies at Eastern Edge Gallery, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, and St. Michael’s Printshop (St. John’s NL); Struts Gallery (Sackville NB); The Banff Centre (Banff AB); The Lemon Tree House (Tuscany, Italy); Unit One/Pickled Art Center (Beijing, PRC); and Artlink (Donegal, Ireland). Most recently, his work takes a conceptual approach to drawing that explores mark-making through certain naturally occurring processes: wind gusts, the flow of water, and walking through the landscape. Within the province, he is represented by Christina Parker Gallery.
He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland (Ktaqmkuk) with his wife, daughter, dog, and cat.
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Giant Ass Squid. Wool and monkscloth 48”x72”, 2023.
Trash Family. Wool and monkscloth, 36”x24” 2023.
Giant Ass Squid. Wool and monkscloth 48”x72”, 2023.
Micheal Pittman
GrandFalls, Newfoundland and Labrador
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
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
2024
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.
Swimming Pool, 2023.
Rabbits, 2023.
Rock Island Conveniece, 2023.