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July 2006 Art Galleries Association of Lunenburg Press Release

Press Release: July 2006

 Regional Relevance: From Fishing to Art

-Lunenburg Turns a Corner-

         The Lunenburg UNESCO site has just 400 houses, yet the retail district currently boasts 19 fine art galleries. Significant changes to the fishing industry since the moratorium on Atlantic Cod have brought to everyone’s attention the fragility of this sustainable resource and its impact on coastal communities. Subsequent to the moratorium in 1990, Lunenburg was awarded its UNESCO status in 1995, and has now become a destination for gallery goers and artists alike.

 Founded in 2005, the Art Galleries Association of Lunenburg (AGAL) currently represents 19 fine art galleries. AGAL's mandate is to maintain and stimulate a high standard of visual art in Lunenburg. AGAL encourages an awareness of our professional visual arts community, nationally and internationally.

 Diversity is the backbone of the association and our member galleries present work spanning three centuries, from historically important Canadian Art to cutting-edge abstract photographic impressionism, and everything in-between.

·        Images Gallery of Contemporary Art

Images Gallery of Contemporary Art houses the progressive work of Jason Remai. Traditional photographic principles smash into cutting-edge media technology to create abstract photographic impressionism.

·        Peer Gallery

A co-operative gallery focusing on some of Nova Scotia’s best visual artists.

·        North Shore Canadian Art

Specializes in Historically Important Canadian Art c.1880s-1970s. Canada’s leading gallery in the sale of William deGarthe paintings. Our mandate is to provide investment quality works of art in all price ranges.

·        Steven Rhude Fine Art

Canadian contemporary realist painter whose form of expression can be categorized from realism to precisionism to social realism.

·        Nova Terra Cotta Pottery

    Joan Bruneau is one of Canada’s award winning potters. Known for its exceptional skill, detail and innovation, her work is respected as an outstanding example of contemporary fine craft.

            Owing to the tremendous growth in galleries and culture in Lunenburg, NSCAD targeted the town for its recent “Artists in Residence” program.  

            Lunenburg is “…an outstanding example of…human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change” (UNESCO Selection Criteria). It is interesting, in post modern times that artists are locating in rural areas and coastal communities, like Lunenburg – far away from the throngs of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, to pursue their unique brand of expression.

  -Art Galleries Association of Lunenburg