Catalogue
Launching:
December 11, 2009
7:30pm
Dunlop Art Gallery
Price:
$30.00 + gst
available at
Dunlop Art Gallery
(306) 777-6040
dunlop@reginalibrary.ca
Organized by:
Dunlop Art Gallery
Co-curated by:
Amanda Cachia & Jeff Nye
Editor:
Anne Campbell
Design:
Combine Design
& Communications
Printing:
Friesens Corporation
Cover: Tim Moore, Johne Saskatchewan, 2009
MIND THE GAP! CONTENTS
Introduction:
Welcome to Saskatchewan
Amanda Cachia
Essay:
Maps, Gaps & Intersections: Navigating Saskatchewan
Jeff Nye
Creative non-fiction and poetry:
Six Facts of Life Before Your Birth
Alice Kuipers
The Siren Song of Highway 39
Bonnie Dunlop
Looking for Tamra Keepness along the Number 1
Carle Steel
A Pastoral at One–Hundred and Twenty–Four Kilometres an Hour
Matt Hall
Artists:
Judy Anderson
Lindsay Arnold
Amalie Atkins
Joël Carignan
Marc Courtemanche
Wally Dion
Brandan Doty
Randal Fedje
Clark Ferguson
Rob Froese
Gabriela García-Luna
Chris Campbell Gardiner
Erin Gee
Todd Gronsdahl
Troy Gronsdahl
Laura Hale
Kyle Herranen
Sarah Jane Holtom
Rob Jerome
Sandra Knoss
Adam Lark
Nicholas Louma
Mark Lowe
Nancy Lowry
Dakota McFadzean
Judy McNaughton
Jennifer McRorie
Tim Moore
Turner Prize*
Stacia Verigin
WRITER BIOGRAPHIES
Alice Kuipers was born in London, England and moved to Canada in 2003. She has published stories, poems and essays and has had work featured on CBC radio. Her first novel, Life on the Refrigerator Door, was published in 28 countries and won several awards. Her second, The Worst Thing She Ever Did, comes out in 2010. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan’s 30 Below Artist Award. She lives in Saskatoon with her partner and new baby.
Bonnie Dunlop began by marrying young, raising two sons and two daughters, working for both the provincial and federal governments and along the way enjoying traveling, curling, golfing, landscape photography and any other pursuit that caught her attention. And of course, always reading, and being compelled to write. Bonnie’s first attempts at ‘serious’ writing came from the realization that the storytellers in her family were slowly disappearing, and along with them, valuable history. She soon discovered that fiction was more her niche. Bonnie’s first short story collection, The Beauty Box, won a 2004 Saskatchewan Book Award for First Book and was also short-listed in the Fiction category. Her second collection, Carnival Glass, came out in October of 2008 and was short-listed for a Saskatchewan Book Award in the Fiction category. Her stories and poetry have been broadcast on CBC, in anthologies and in Grain and Transition Magazines She lives in the city of Swift Current with her husband, Art, but her roots are firmly in the soil of her family farm, homesteaded in 1905, and she will probably always long for the vastness of the prairie sky.
Carle Steel is a Regina writer, journalist and cultural worker bee. Her short story Fat Krause Head was shortlisted for the 2006 CBC Literary Awards in Creative Nonfiction. In 1996, she was awarded second prize in the Writers Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for her short story After Max. She is a regular contributor to prairie dog Magazine and Planet S.
Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Matt Hall is presently a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Australia, where he is at work on a dissertation on J.H. Prynne and the ‘Cambridge School’ of contemporary poetics. He has recently completed a book on the radical pastoral which will be published in the coming year. English Pastoralist, Peter Larkin, recently claimed that the collection, The Pastoral Artifice, was “an expansive and ceremonious work.” He continued, saying “It is beautiful! Again, crusty and heavy and even ritual-hungry.”Matthew’s poetry and prose have most recently been featured in ditch, The Toronto Quarterly, Forget Magazine, kipple, Misunderstandings Magazine, Existere, Nth Position, Swamp, Thirst, Cordite Poetry Review, Science Creative Quarterly, Foam:e, Going Down Swinging, Cottonmouth, Mother [has words...], and NōD, a Journal of the University of Calgary. A small book, Brutal Tender Human Animal: Reflections of the Photography of Roger Ballen is available from Trainwreck Press.