Exhibition
Graeme Patterson: Strange Birds
Graeme Patterson, Strange Birds video still (2023).
Graeme Patterson, Strange Birds video still (2023).
Detail of Graeme Patterson, Strange Birds video still (2023).
Join us in celebrating the opening of Strange Birds and be among the first to experience this immersive multimedia exhibition!
Artist Graeme Patterson will be in attendance, and the event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Accessibility
Opening remarks will be held in the Sculpture Court on Level 2 of the Dalhousie Arts Centre, with seating provided. The reception will follow in the Gallery on Level 1, where the event will be standing. Both levels are accessible by elevator.
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Artist Talk with Graeme Patterson
This event will take place in the MacAloney Room (Dalhousie Arts Centre, Room 406)
Join us for an artist talk with Graeme Patterson. He will speak about his current exhibition at Dalhousie Art Gallery, Strange Birds, as well as his previous works leading up to this project.
Accessibility
This is a seated event. The MacAloney Room is located on the 4th floor of the Dalhousie Arts Centre, and is wheelchair accessible.
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Nocturne: G.L.A.M. BATS
Join us for a G.L.A.M. Bats performance and drop-in lounge experience hosted by Graeme Patterson and Mitchell Wiebe with occasional special guests. Connected to Patterson’s current exhibition Strange Birds, this event is described as somewhere between burlesque and a musical about galleries where rock ballads can also exist.
This event is part of Nocturne: Art at Night.
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October 26, November 2 & November 9: Drop-in Tours of Strange Birds
Due to popular demand, we're offering a few more drop-in tours of our current exhibition! Join us on Saturdays, October 26, November 2, and November 9 from 2-3 PM for guided tours of Graeme Patterson's Strange Birds.
The tours are family-friendly and free to attend. Registration is not required.
Accessibility
Visitors will move through the Gallery space for the duration of the event. Limited seating is available throughout the gallery. A wheelchair is also available for visitor use.
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From L-R: Sue Goyette, Ray Cronin, Melanie Zurba.
Circulated and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery & Dalhousie Art Gallery
Strange Birds is Sackville, New Brunswick artist Graeme Patterson’s third thematic exhibition. In Strange Birds, his sculptures are also the settings for both a projected animation and a virtual reality environment. The starlings in Strange Birds are an invasive species, propagating uncontrollably until they overwhelm the fragile eco-system of the marshland. Eventually the sea overwhelms the world constructed by these strange birds, erasing all evidence of their presence, leaving just the water and a great blue heron who has acted as a kind of observer of the antics of the birds who settled in its ecosystem. These avatars reflect two aspects of the artist, and through his vision, we viewers can slip into his world, one which eerily mirrors our own.
